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  • Open source to free social apps from network

    Veteran tech entrepreneur Bob Bickel has let out a whisper of his new venture, Ringside Networks, which will aim to make social networking applications work outside the network.

  • Red Hat ponders new JBoss strategy

    In an effort to increase revenue from its JBoss server software, Red Hat is contemplating splitting the product into two versions -- a free, unsupported product and a subscription-based supported one.

  • Will change of CEO hit Red Hat?

    The man who led Linux seller Red Hat from a newly public but largely unproven open source company to a force to be reckoned with is giving his office to an executive largely unknown in the software industry.

  • Developers split from JBoss Group

    The specialist in open source application server applications loses a handful of developers who set out to run their own venture, working with JBoss and other software.

  • Open source threatens Java servers

    Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.

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  • Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?

    Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.

  • JBoss to Red Hat: Grow up

    Marc Fleury wants Red Hat to change its ways.

  • Clash over Java standard heats up

    Upstart JBoss Group will soon debut a new release of its popular open-source application server software amid a growing dispute with Sun Microsystems over Java standard compliance.

  • Open source reshaping services market

    The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up.

  • Open source's next chapter?

    Dot-bomb survivor Kim Polese sees an industry renaissance fed by the increasing corporate use of open-source software.

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