Episode 68 - It takes a billion...

Running Time:47:16

1) Introduction

Linux dead on desktop (a recap, and we need to get her to read our site)

Jack Trammiel dies at 83 (founder of Commdore)

2) News

Microsoft buys 800 AOL patents for 1 BILL!

Instagram powered by Ubuntu

Redhat contributes more to Openstack then Canonical (Ubuntu)

Redhat becomes first 1 bill open source company and SUSE attracts 22,700 hardware and software partners

A virus on the MAC?????

3) Conclusion

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SuSE is partnering with everyone they can...

While Red Hat announced that they are the first $1 Billion Open Source Company Suse is trying to partner with everyone who wants to.  This article points out that they have now partnered with 9,200 Software partners and 13,500 hardware partners. So when it comes to supporting your favorite hardware SuSE should be the best.  While they are the number two Enterprise Distro they are so close support wise that they are an excellent choice for any size company.  Don't forget that a free license comes with VMWare and other software. 

Red Hat is a bigger contributer to OpenStack than Canonical...

Red Hat who wasn't a member of the OpenStack Alliance/Group until this week has contributed more code than Ubuntu's parent company and a founding member.  The big surprise for some of us here was that Rackspace, someone we don't normally assocaite with software development, is the number one developer on the project.  They account for 55% of the code followed by Nebula with 10%.  Red Hat accounted for 7.9% and Canonical put up a mere 2.6%.  Sounds pretty lopsided?  Well when you think about the fact that there are more than 150 companies that are part of the group they all look pretty good.  Supporting open products should be applauded by both of these.

HP Doubles down on Linux...

HP has been seeing an interesting trend in business.  Both Windows and Linux are more and more becoming key parts in critical infrastructure.(Yeah we know DUHHHH)  They want to act on this and have choosen to put some money into Linux.  Their first big thing is joining up with Red Hat to work on kernel issues with their hardware.  We are sure there is more to come and welcome HP to the Linux fold.  Check out the full article over at theinquirer.net.

Redhat will now support releases for 10 years....

serverwatch.com noted that Redhat has now extended the time it will support releases from five years to ten years.  This is great news for companies that can't afford to keep updating internal software at a faster pace.  Though the support cycle also means that support versions will have to keep that in mind when releasing software.  This combined with advances in virtualization mean that we can keep running software for even longer with out updating it.  Wait is that a good thing?  Well it's a mixed blessing but proves again that Linux has supporters that are listening to their customers unlike their counterparts that create the closed source OS's.