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OggCamp 10
http://www.oggcamp.org/start
Open Source from a European Perspective
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| Miguel: We are in Grenoble in the Alps, 3
| hours from Paris and also pretty close to
| Switzerland and Italy. The Bonita Open
| Source project was created in 2001 at INRIA
| labs. Then, in 2003 Bull was interested in
| building a middleware stack based on Open
| Source and Bonita became one of the key
| pieces of this stack. Bull supported Bonita
| development between 2003 and 2008 and by
| the end of 2008 we had released version 4.
| We got quite good momentum from a community
| point of view, with thousands of downloads.
| And we started to sign some big customers,
| mostly in Europe.
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http://blogs.olliancegroup.com/2010/03/19/open-source-from-a-european-perspective/
O'Reilly at OSBC: The future's in the data
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| Tim asked a question to the audience:
| "Could anyone in the Open Source community
| build the infrastructure to deliver Google
| Voice Search?" The response: a stony
| silence. The implication? Vendor lock-in is
| lo longer about proprietary source code.
| It's about massive, hard-to-replicate data
| sets -- making Google a potential Microsoft
| of the next decade. The corollary? The
| future will be about who has the most data,
| and who is able to extract meaning from it
| and deliver it in real time.
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http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2010/03/oreilly-at-osbc-the-futures-in-the-data.html
Working with Open Source Software Vendors
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| IBM executive Bob Sutor had a message for
| attendees at the Open Source Business
| Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco last
| week: "Ask the hard questions."
|
| Sutor, despite himself being an open source
| software enthusiast (his full title is vice
| president of Open Source and Linux in IBM's
| Software group) said, compared to
| traditional software vendors, too many
| companies give open source a pass when it
| comes to due diligence and scrutiny. And
| while he said open source has matured quite
| a bit to where it's now a proven enterprise
| asset, that doesn't mean it should get a
| rubber-stamp approval.
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http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3872061/Working-with-Open-Source-Software-Vendors.htm
Athena Offers Free, Open Source Network Tool
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| Athena Security's Firewall Browser offers
| network admins a number of options for
| troubleshooting on firewalls. According to
| the company in its press release on The
| Open Press, Firewall Browser was developed
| in the spirit of other free and open source
| network tools like Nessus or Snort, based
| on the value that functionally-rich non-
| commercial alternatives should exist for
| practitioners.
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http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/daily_news/article.php/395584/Athena-Offers-Free-Open-Source-Network-Tool.htm
Open Source Exchange Alternatives
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| The candidates mentioned in those two
| articles are Open-Xchange, Scalix, Zimbra,
| Zarafa, Citadel, and OpenGroupware. I also
| found OpenChange directly from my Google
| search.
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http://www.goodbyemicrosoft.net/news.php?item.562.3
Interview: Ethan Galstad - The Nagios future
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| Recently, Nagios, an open source
| application for network, server and
| application monitoring, has been the
| subject of a dispute. The operators of the
| French Nagios site nagios-fr.org claimed
| that Nagios Enterprises was forcing them to
| give up the domain because of postings
| about ICINGA, a fork of Nagios. At the
| centre of the dispute is Ethan Galstad,
| creator of Nagios and CEO of Nagios
| Enterprises. The H talked to him about what
| had happened and asked how he plans to take
| the Nagios community forward.
|
| [...]
|
| Even before then, as a 19 year old student,
| Galstad had run into issues with a program
| to crack the password of Trumpet WinSock
| software. He named the program TrumpCrack
| and gained his first experience of a threat
| of legal action from Trumpet's lawyers. "It
| was a scary thing for me back then". Those
| experiences led Galstad, when approaching
| trademark issues with the community, not to
| use attorneys to send a letter but make
| personal contact, either himself or Mary
| Starr (Nagios Enterprise's Vice President);
| "It lets people know that there's a real
| person on the other end". Galstad has gone
| as far as having told the company's lawyers
| to only send letters when there's "a real
| serious problem that we've brought to their
| attention". Concerning the trademark policy
| itself "not everyone is going to agree, nor
| everyone is going to understand, but the
| guidelines are there for very specific
| reasons". Galstad feels he is being as fair
| as possible with the trademark policy.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Interview-Ethan-Galstad-The-Nagios-future-958826.html
6 Open Source Resources To Help You Get More Done
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| Among open source applications, there are an increasing number that focus
| on boosting productivity. Pervasive themes throughout the world of
| technology--such as collaboration online--are heavily influencing that.
| Open source tools focused on productivity include useful Firefox
| extensions such as iMacros (which lets you record repetitive, multi-step tasks
| and then execute them with one click) and full-blown collaboration platforms.
| Here, you'll find our updated list of six productivity enhancement tools.
| Everything found here is free.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/6-open-source-resources-to-help-you-get-more-done
credativ pre-paid Open Source Support Card leads the market
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| credativ UK joins its German counterpart in
| offering the Open Source Support Card for
| Linux distributions.
|
| Today, credativ is launching its unique
| pre-paid Open Source Support Card.
| Businesses using Linux distributions such
| as Debian and CentOS stand to benefit from
| expert support without being tied into a
| contract, in contrast to other commercial
| Linux support vendors.
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http://www.credativ.co.uk/news/2010/03/23/credativ-pre-paid-Open-Source-Support-Card/
Open Source DNS Enters Next Gen with BIND 10 Y1
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| The first public release of the BIND 10
| open source DNS server is now out. But
| don't rush to update your servers just yet
| -- it's still years away from being ready
| for production use.
|
| The ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) has
| been talking about BIND 10 since at least
| 2007 when the BIND 9.4 release came out.
| Last year, the ISC told me that work had
| actually started on development of BIND 10
| and now here we are a year later and the
| first public milestone.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/03/open-source-dns-enters-next-ge.html
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