Enterprise Software - Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Open Source Startups Are Coming - Egads
As a manager of any enterprise software company, you might get the creeps from open-source software startup more than you do from any software giant. If nothing else, software buyers will continue to tell vendors that they can get the generic brand open source software for a fraction of their costs.
InformationWeek covers the open-source startup boomlet. It leads with the evil genius story of John Newton who previously founded Documentum, sold it to EMC in 2003 for $1.2B and is now starting an open source content management company - Alfresco - which seeks to undermine old-code companies like Documentum.
In addition to Alfresco InformationWeek covers SugerCRM, MySQL, Greenplum
Pentaho
Read - Open-Source Exuberance (Information Week)
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Edmonton dominated the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday night and the 4-0 margin in Game 6 makes it hard to imagine the Oilers not hoisting hockey's Holy Grail above their heads in less than 48 hours. And it would not come as any shock to see defenseman Chris Pronger, who had another 31-minute night, take the honors for the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP.
Posted by: alliall at June 24, 2006 12:40 PM
Edmonton dominated the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday night and the 4-0 margin in Game 6 makes it hard to imagine the Oilers not hoisting hockey's Holy Grail above their heads in less than 48 hours. And it would not come as any shock to see defenseman Chris Pronger, who had another 31-minute night, take the honors for the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP.
Posted by: antheanta at June 24, 2006 11:18 PM
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