Over the last few years there has been a lot of fanfare around open source companies and their liquidation events. Most of the news has been around Sun’s billion dollar acquisition of MySQL or the Citrix acquisition of Xen and even Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra. In contrast there was little attention paid to the SourceFire. [...]

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I use Zimbra for my mail server and I am happy to see Zimbra now supports CalDAV. This means   you now can sync your calendar for Mac OS X  using Mail.app and iCal without and third-party add-ons. 
To setup a CalDAV account in Mail.app:

Go to Preferences > Accounts and click the "Plus" button to add [...]

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Is 2008 going to be the Year of the Acquisition? Activity in 2007 was on the rise but now things seem to be at full speed.

I remember when Alta Vista and Excite! were the hot search engines, my how the world has changed.  It looks like it’s narrowing down to a two horse race [...]

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Dell announced the acquisition of EqualLogic tonight for a pittance… $1.4 billion. The storage virtualization vendor is the biggest acquisition in Dell history:
Under the terms of the agreement, Dell will purchase EqualLogic for approximately $1.4 billion in cash. The acquisition of EqualLogic is expected to close late in the fourth quarter of Dell’s [...]

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Greg sent me this article at the New York Times,"Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again" and Stacy says (via Matt ) Balmer is hunting for Open Source Start-Ups.
"We will do some buying of companies that are built around open-source products," Ballmer said during an onstage interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
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