[News] [Rival] Microsoft Failed to Foil Google Deal

EU Ready To Approve Google, DoubleClick

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| Despite privacy and competitive concerns, it appears European regulators will
| follow tradition and approve Google's DoubleClick acquisition.
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[url]http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/01/25/eu-ready-to-approve-google-doubleclick[/url]

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Google's Secret Weapon

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| "[Google is] an example of a company that literally couldn't have existed in
| the same form pre-Linux or pre-open source," says Jim Zemlin, executive
| director of The Linux Foundation -- the organization that pays Linus Torvalds
| to work on the Linux kernel. "If they had to rely on Microsoft or Sun, not
| only would it have been too expensive, they could not have done the
| modifications necessary to create their services." Â* Â*
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| The last point is confirmed by Google's Open Source Programs Manager Chris
| DiBona, who joined the company in August 2004 to oversee and coordinate its
| open source activities: "The thing about open source [is], it's kind of like
| it's yours. Considering that Google does an insane amount of software
| development, if we had to have some of the restrictions that heavily
| proprietary would present us, we couldn't develop at the speed that we do." Â* Â* Â*
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[url]http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=2395[/url]

What Android means for Apple, MS, open source, enterprises

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| The GPhone never happened, but Android is a much more significant development
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| [...]
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| A better approach, argues Dan Kohn, COO of the Linux Foundation, is to pick
| one set of standards that IT will support for calendaring, email
| applications, VPN and so on, and tell users they can use any mobile phone
| compatible with those standards. Â*
|
| [...]
|
| What Android means for open source and Linux
| Linux already has a major presence on mobile phones, but the entrance of
| Google and the Open Handset Alliance â€” which has 34 member organisations
| worldwide â€” adds to the momentum. Â*
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| "We're a huge believer in diversity of options on mobile phones," Kohn of the
| Linux Foundation says. "Linux is already an important, growing presence
| there. I think having the Google software as an additional open source option
| is only going to accelerate that adoption." Â*
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[url]http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/D22188C825F8528FCC257394007BE16D[/url]