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First big business, now big data
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| To properly assess the state of open-source software in 2009, one would have to
| gather millions of code commits and project releases. Open source isn't a buzzword
| or even a type of software; it has become a new way of doing business in software.
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| In September, the Linux Foundation released the findings of its âWho Writes
| Linuxâ survey. The results found that Linux is seeing contributions from
| hundreds of thousands of different users, and that pool of contributors
| is still growing at an encouraging rate, building on over 10 years of
| consistent evolution and expansion.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34011
VLMC: Free Video Editing Software from VLC Coming Soon [Leaked Pics]
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| The official announcement of VLMC will take
| place at the VideoLAN devâdays 2009 in
| December.
| Once the pre-release of VLMC is out, there will
| be full instructions on how to install it, and
| we will have all the details. Until then, you
| can fetch the current working tree using Git:
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| git clone git://github.com/VLMC/vlmc.git
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http://techie-buzz.com/video-tools/vlmc-free-video-editing-software-from-vlc-coming-soon-leaked-pics.html
Recent:
Sun Tzu and the London Stock Exchange
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| I read Sun Tzu's The Art of War more than 10
| years ago, and there is one bit of advice that I
| still use daily in my business dealings. It can
| be paraphrased as "when attacking an entrenched
| competitor, you need four times the force. Ten
| times the force is better." Thus, when Red Hat
| was building its enterprise business, I made sure
| that our sales people were focused on customers
| who could immediately measure 2x the performance
| at 1/2 the cost (yielding a 4x performance/cost
| advantage), although 10x performance/cost was
| more advantageous. It seems that Sun Tzu's math
| has been understood by the London Stock Exchange,
| who are seeing a more than 6x improvement in the
| all-important measure of latency, whilst gaining
| an impressive 2x cost advantage. No wonder they
| are switching from a proprietary platform to one
| based on open source software!
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http://www.opensource.org/node/473
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