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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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21Apr

Novell expands Microsoft alliance with China deal

By Hiawatha Bray (Boston Globe)
Linux software vendor Novell Inc. of Waltham is expanding its alliance with Microsoft Corp. into China, in a bid to encourage Chinese companies to start paying for the software they use to run their businesses.
Three Chinese firms - People's Insurance Company of China, The Dairy Farm Co., and Dawning Information Industry Co. - will purchase from Microsoft three-year licenses for Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server software.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/04/21/novell_expands_microsoft_alliance_with_china_deal/

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