May 2007 Archives

Investors have to make a decision whether to consider Google a marketing/advertising agency or a media company. But as an open source software (OSS) user you probably care more that they are technologists at heart. And among the biggest users... Read More..

Most people “love� lists. The psychology of lists has been proven somewhere (no URL provided). On the other hand, analysts love surveys. So I spent a little time digging into the factoids and finer points of portions of a user... Read More..

Wrapping up Red Hat week, I caught up with Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing & General Manager, Products Division at Red Hat, as he was catching a plane to New England from San Diego. Finding ex-DEC, DG,... Read More..

So what kind of open source software (OSS)/IT investment research analyst am I that I didn’t blog on May 14 about the Microsoft/OSS “patent happening?� Instead I played golf May 14. It was the first great day of spring here... Read More..

While attending conferences virtually, as I did for this week's Red Hat Summit, let's me be in two places at once, it still doesn't easily support being in three places at once. Where I wasn't--even virtually--this week was at the... Read More..

Paul Cormier and Tim Yeaton (see for OSS Talking with… interview early next week) led off the Red Hat financial analyst conference conducted as part of the Red Hat Summit in San Diego this week. The slides are available on... Read More..

The Red Hat Summit user group meeting kicked off today in San Diego with two announcements involving the big guns of the proprietary world: IBM and Intel. FYI, I am doing this "virtual" with a financial analysts webcast meeting serving... Read More..

(You can listen to a replay yourself via the Red Hat web site) A Baird analyst kicked it off by saying they were basing investment advice to their clients on the fact that OSS is a disruptive technology trend, with... Read More..

Barring Oracle acquiring Microsoft or some similar cosmic event in the industry I will be devoting this week to information out of the Red Hat user conference and related events. -- I will live blog meetings with investors at 12:50... Read More..

Elizabeth Book and Ely Rosenstock of ebizQ.net called yesterday to alert me to the controversy that made May 1 of this year “Digg/DRM Day� instead of the traditional celebration of the first day of summer. Or the traditional day to... Read More..