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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Oracle supports UC Berkeley lab to work on OSS systems

Oracle along with IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., NNT Multimedia Communications Laboratories Inc., and Nortel Networks, are pledging annual contributions of up to $170,000 for the next five years. This financial help will help the RAD lab to innovate and make its creations freely available under the open source Berkeley software distribution license. In addition, these companies are going to make some resources availble to act as consultants. In 2005 the RAD lab was launched with a $7.5M donation from Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc.

The projects will be focused for the most part on Artificial Intelligence based systems to help maintain large distributed computing systems used by data-intensive Internet businesses.

More on this in the press release.

posted by Omar Tazi at 4:00 PM
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21 Comments:

  • Interesting news item...one of the questions that have cropped up in recent times in the context of revenue models for open source software is how will niche software products, especially scientific software products with small niche target segments make money from open source? The traditional argument that they can make mone from support is not that valid for these segments because of their smaller customer bases...dual licensing was also discussed, but no one was very confident about DL...this article sheds some light on the type of business arrangements that could appear in future for the open source scientific software and other niche software...

    True, this does not answer the questions of the worried scientific software publishers (:-(), but at least the have some ideas of the directions it could take

    Some more interesting revenue models are discussed at a page Making Money from Open Source Software @ eIT.in...hope this page is of help to some of your blog readers

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    As you can imagine, this costs a pretty penny.

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