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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 1)
In 1994, Marc Ewing created his own distribution for Linus Torvald’s Linux, called it Red Hat Linux and released it in October of that year. After merging with Bob Young’s ACC Corporation in 1995, the company was renamed Red Hat Software. Today, Red Hat is a global company that provides enterprises with technology and services
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: BonitaSoft, Grenoble, France
Deal Radar revisits open source with Grenoble-based BonitaSoft. The company creates a functional open source business process management (BPM) solution that designs, simulates, and automates processes. The aim is to allow businesses to turn their processes into business applications. Bonita Open Solution is designed to be comprehensive and scalable BPM solution that includes three main
Deal Radar 2009: SugarCRM
Deal Radar returns to open source with SugarCRM. Founded in 2004 by John Roberts, Clint Oram, and Jacob Taylor, SugarCRM began as an open-source project on Sourceforge, something that the company still maintains. The company, which is headquartered in Cupertino, California, develops CRM software in four editions: Sugar Community Edition, Sugar Express, Sugar Professional, and
Deal Radar 2009: eXo
eXo provides an open source software for areas including enterprise content management, workflow, and collaboration. The software is made for the Enterprise 2.0 workplace and was developed in partnership with its customers and partners.
Deal Radar 2009: Colosa
Deal Radar returns to a hot topic, enterprise open source, via an area that it has not covered recently: business process management. South America-based Colosa develops software solutions that help companies automate approval-based workflow processes by interconnecting people and systems across the organization. The company offers a free open source application, ProcessMaker®, which is an AJAX-enabled,
Deal Radar 2009: Hippo
You’ve often heard me use the expression Built To Enjoy. Today’s Deal Radar showcases a quintessential Built To Enjoy company. Hippo is an open source information centered Content Management System (CMS) which targets medium to large enterprises to manage their content for multi-channel distribution like websites and intranets. The company has been around for ten
Oracle Acquires Sun. OpenSource, First. SaaS, Next.
The media chattered and twittered about the mega players HP, Cisco and IBM following the news of IBM’s desire to acquire Sun. No one talked about Oracle as one of the mega players in data centers. Larry Ellison’s ego apparently didn’t like that very much!
Deal Radar 2009: MuleSource
We continue our focus on enterprise open source in the context of service-oriented architecture (SOA) with San Francisco-based MuleSource. Founded in 2006 by Ross Mason, MuleSource is the leading open source SOA vendor. The company’s roots are in the Mule project, which Mason started in 2003 in response to his frustration with integration “donkey work”
