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July 13, 2008

MuleSource calls out IBM's double standard on open source

Granting that the open source players are starting out from a small revenue base, simple math tells us that if they keep on growing at their present pace they will sooner or later put some real hurt on the sales of incumbent closed source vendors like IBM and Oracle, who have long dominated enterprise middleware and database sales.
I had a chance to explore that and other issues recently with the CEO of one of these new open source middleware challengers, David Rosenberg of MuleSource, a company best known for its Mule ESB product. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation.

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30Apr

Microsoft, you're driving open source advocates nuts!

By Mitchell Ashley (NetworkWorld)
Who would have thunk it. Microsoft integrates OpenPegasus open source software into System Center Operations Manager to extend management to Linix and Unix systems. Plus, Microsoft's adding connectors to managed Novell SUSE, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Sun Solaris boxes. OpenPegasus is published under the MIT open source license, a much less restrictive license than the popularly used GPL.
Frankly, I'm still in shock. I would have never guessed we'd see such an announcement from Microsoft. Yes, it's significant that they will manage non-Windows operating systems. That, I think, was inevitable. But using open source software in such a public way to do it is a shocker.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/27357

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