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Why would a highly-diversified Enterprise CMS technology corporation with licensing revenues in the billions of dollars be interested in a tiny company that specializes in support software for open source projects?

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Why Would EMC Grab Open Source SourceLabs?

Microsoft, the commercial software behemoth from Redmond, Washington, continues to dip its toes into the open source pool. Microsoft’s Open Source Technology Center (OSTC) is home to the software vendor’s relationships with a few open source products such as MySQL and SugarCRM. The OSTC has been hard at work lately — especially, in the web application space.

After releasing their own open source CMS and making it easy to install open source applications on Windows Server, what else has Redmond been up to?

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Microsoft Keeps Embracing Open Source, Digs PHP

OnlyWire is not new — nor is automated social bookmarking. What is new is that OnlyWire has released its new version 2.0 and the social bookmarking sites have decided that they are okay. New ownership back in July 2008 surely contributed to this.

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OnlyWire, the Automated Bookmarking System that Almost Died

Microblogging is growing at an exceedingly rapid rate. As a result, more and more services pop-up regularly trying to corner the microblog front. The newest of these microblog innovators is Buzzable. Buzzable brings the idea of having your own social network and applies it to microblogging.

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Microblogging Communities, The Merging of Microblogs and Social Networks