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Can FOSS Skills Be Measured?
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| Sure, FOSS is fun, but is it profitable? Or
| is it just a spare-time hobby? There are
| actually two sides to FOSS: FOSS as free
| and open source software for a set of tools
| and platforms; and FOSS as a methodology
| for the development of software. One cannot
| exist without the other. And the reason for
| the superiority of FOSS tools is precisely
| because they are the result of FOSS
| methodology.
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| The FOSS software development/deployment
| methodology â a child of the Internet, and
| which is based on openness, sharing and
| collaboration â is also a powerful tool to
| develop âsoft skillsâ like the ability to
| communicate, search for and find solutions,
| and to think out-of-the-box. Over a long
| time, I have noticed that people who
| actually participate in projects following
| the FOSS methodology are eminently better
| programmers and far better at
| communicating, solving problems and
| collaborating, than people who follow the
| âclosed methodologyâ.
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http://www.linuxforu.com/everyone/can-foss-skills-be-measured/?
Radically Simple IT with Dr. David Upton
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| We were extremely fortunate to have Dr. David
| Upton, chair in Operations Management at
| Oxford University, kick off our first ever
| Open Your World forum. Dr. Upton's
| presentation, entitled "Radically Simple IT
| ... or, a Strategic Argument for Open Source
| in Business" was a highly relevant and
| insightful commentary on how open source
| principles can help business leaders transform
| how they approach and engage the more
| traditional strategic planning process.
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http://opensource.com/business/10/6/radically-simple-it-dr-david-upton
Recent:
Conficker smites Oxford Brookes network
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/03/conficker_infects_oxford_brookes/
Oxford University goes for storage magic
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| on Edwards, an IT Officer for the two faculties, said: "We knew that finding
| an affordable solution that could work seamlessly in a Netware environment
| and that would effectively transition us to a networked storage model while
| giving us reliability, support, and ease of use was going to be a challenge.
| Like most educational establishments, for us, money is not a bottomless pit.
| Our servers and direct-attach storage infrastructure were dated and we wanted
| to deploy a cost-effective, network-based data protection solution that would
| work with our Novell and Linux servers."
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http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsID=10181&pagtype=samechan
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