- home
- reviews
- news
- downloads
- cnet tv
HOLIDAY HELP DESK: Broadcasting live at 1:00 p.m., PT
- log in
- join CNET
- welcome,
- my profile
- log out

Comments on: Microsoft and Salesforce bounce open-source competitors from events

Open source seems to be getting under the skin of proprietary companies like Salesforce and Microsoft.

Add a Comment (Log in or register) (4 Comments)


by pamderringer November 6, 2008 10:15 AM PST: Matt - I love your columns and would like to contact you directly for feedback on some issues. Is there a way to reach you? please respond pderringer@comcast.net. thanks!; Like this Reply to this comment


by ice5nake November 6, 2008 11:17 AM PST: What's the point of SaaS without standards that other technologies can integrate with?; Like this Reply to this comment


by ZUrlocker November 9, 2008 4:16 PM PST: Note also that this year Oracle did not let MySQL exhibit at their Open World conference. I guess it's not really all that open after all.

--Zack; Like this Reply to this comment


by mscurtescu November 11, 2008 5:24 PM PST: Earlier this year the Romanian Ministry of Education organized a small event where software companies could make presentations to teachers of computing science.

Microsoft was a co-sponsor and they managed to get an Ubuntu presentation canceled, it was "unfair competition" according to them:
http://janimo.blogspot.com/2008/05/then-they-fight-you.html; Like this Reply to this comment

(4 Comments)

About The Open Road

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.