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April 2006 - Posts

• Oracle and Open Source: Innovator's Dilemma Unfolding

  Next act of Innovator's Dilemma at Oracle: Ellison, being quoted in February, that he wants to "embrace" open source, starts off by showing that he doesn't get it in the first place. When asked in the FT interview why he didn't buy open source companies Read More... Posted Saturday, April 22, 2006 10:42 PM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, MySQL, Silicon Valley

• db4objects Receives Series B Funding

  I had blogged and spoken about the inherent incompatibility between Open Source businesses and VC funding previously and we have sticked to this assumption all along. Successful people as different as Linus Thorvalds and Mark Leslie, founding CEO of Veritas Read More... Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:43 PM by Christof | 2 Comments Filed under: db4objects, Silicon Valley

• Red Hat Acquires JBoss

  So it came as expected : The JBoss/Oracle deal did not go through, and all other candidates (BEA, Novell, IBM) shied away from Mark's asking price and terms for his own tenure. Red Hat is a good fit for JBoss and the story of building an entire stack Read More... Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 10:45 PM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, Silicon Valley

• Open Source is like a Sushi Bar

  On my trip through Japan I contemplated how much you (have to) trust the staff at Sushi bars, because eating raw fish is the last thing where you want to experience 'low quality' (i.e., old fish). So what happens? All Sushi bars open their kitchens and Read More... Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:45 PM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source