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OSBC focus turns to best practices for open-source adoption
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| Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and
| Linux for IBM, gave a keynote address in
| which he enumerated the criteria by which
| open-source projects should be evaluated. His
| talk highlighted the problems that can arise
| when organizations choose the wrong open-
| source project around which to standardize.
| He also advocated the creation of a company-
| wide open-source governance plan.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/OSBC_FOCUS_TURNS_TO_BEST_PRACTICES_FOR_OPEN_SOURCE_ADOPTION/By_Alex_Handy/About_OPENSOURCE/34210
2010 Open Source Business Conference â Day One
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| I am currently in San Francisco attending the
| Open Source Business Conference (OSBC). While
| the conference has been around for awhile, I
| have never had a desire to attend before
| since people have told me it is more like the
| Open Core Business Conference. Also, it was
| founded my Matt Asay who nurses a strong
| dislike for OpenNMS (for proof just check out
| his negative article on us and our BOSSIE
| last year which is based on quotes that donât
| seem to exist in the original article).
|
| We have a standing rule at the OpenNMS Group
| that we will pay the expenses for any
| employee who gets a paper accepted at a
| conference, so I dutifully submitted two
| talks. The first was my ever evolving âSo You
| Think You Want to Start and Open Source
| Business?â presentation, but since I was
| pretty certain that would be shot down, I
| also suggested another presentation where two
| of our âUltraâ support customers, Rackspace
| and New Edge, could talk about how they use
| the OpenNMS management application platform
| in their business.
|
| Both were shot down.
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http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?p=1491
OSBC 2010 â Age of open source enablement
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| My talk at OSBC centers on the cost savings
| benefits of open source software and how this
| drove adoption amid difficult economic
| conditions. There was also discussion at the
| conference of the impact of an improving
| economy. While I donât believe IT budgets
| will get fattened up with improving economic
| conditions, I do believe that this could put
| more emphasis on some of the other benefits
| of open source software. Again, we found cost
| savings was the main driver for customers
| considering open source. However, after
| adoption, the top benefit changes to
| flexibility. In addition, while factors such
| as vendor lock-in appear to subside after
| adoption, open source benefits such as
| reliability and performance grow in
| significance. I believe this is indicative of
| where the market, customers and vendors are
| headed as they contemplate the benefits and
| rewards of open source. I also believe these
| âotherâ non-cost factors all contribute to
| enabling IT individuals and teams based on
| open source.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/03/18/osbc-2010-age-of-open-source-enablement/
The New Open Source Business Model Still Relies on Closed Source
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| Over the last couple of years a number of
| different open source business strategies
| have evolved. According to the 451 Group,
| it's an evolution that includes the broader
| adoption and usage of open source overall by
| both open source and proprietary software
| vendors.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7013/1/
Related:
No Justification Need
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| What's at the forefront of my crabbiness is the almost-complete capture of
| the Open Source Business Conference's news cycle by Brad Smith's presence at
| that conference left me wondering who else was even there this week, other
| than Smith, Matt Asay, and a few pundits and luminaries. In a nicely done
| spin for the media, OSBC suddenly became about how Microsoft braved the
| lion's den, instead of the real progress a lot of companies are making in
| open source development and business.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-03-28-020-26-OP-SW
All That Got Stolen Was Microsoft's Thunder
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| The best response I've seen was from Jonathan Corbet at a panel at the Open
| Source Business Conference in San Francisco last May. Corbet is a Linux
| kernel developer himself and executive editor of the Linux Weekly News.
|
| "I feel I've been called a thief," he said levelly during a panel at the
| event, and pointed out that Microsoft was one of the companies that had
| patented "thousands of trivial functions ... There's no way to write a
| nontrivial program that can't be claimed to infringe on someone's patents."
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/message_to_brad.html
Brad Smith continues its FUD spreading, wants to tax RedHat
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| Brad Smith continues its FUD spreading, wants to tax RedHat. The only
| solution for Microsoft to tax linux is software patents. Microsoft wants to
| render GPL free software non-free. The message is clear.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft needs to be sued more often, because in their current position they
| still believe too much in a patent system where no software developer has
| ever used a patent to write a computer program.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-49513/brad-smith-continues-its-fud-spreading-wants-to-tax-redhat
Microsoft's dilemma: The importance of the downstream
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| To work within the open-source community, which Microsoft will absolutely
| have to do if it wants to remain relevant in the 21st century of the Web,
| Microsoft must stop polluting the downstream with patent encumbrances.
| Period. Full stop. Microsoft is not alone in being threatened by open source.
| Everyone is to a greater or lesser extent, including open-source companies.
| MySQL's biggest competitor is not Oracle. It is fee-free use of MySQL. Ditto
| for other open-source companies.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9899201-16.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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