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Open Source in the Enterprise

Using open source in the enterprise — the question is no longer "if," but "how?" The low cost, easy access, and expansive license terms of open source are certainly attractive — especially since IT budgets have decreased 3-5% every year, while software costs have increased, and IT staffs have been tasked to create web services and pursue Web 2.0 initiatives. Get the report.

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April 12 – 15, 2010
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Make It Happen at OSCON

July 19 – 23, 2010
Portland, OR

Open Source Answers

• O'Reilly Books on User Group Management
• Open source tools for mid-sized websites?
• Is there a base version of Drupal that is minimal and secure, yet has an easy editing function?
• Handling HL7 v3 using Python or PHP
• Alternative Ways to Run R
• Screencasting software: Any recommendations?
• What sorts of projects are you building with Cassandra?
• Open source project management software available in Chinese?
• What's your experience with Solr?
• Is there any general open source smart update utility for enterprise software

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Why health care is coming to the Open Source convention

This year for the first time, O'Reilly's Open Source convention contains a track on health care IT. In this blog I'll explain why we created the track and why OSCon is a promising venue for trends that will move and shake health care in positive ways.

Four short links: 26 March 2010

Chrome Extensions Manager for Firefox -- lets you run Chrome extensions in Firefox. I don't think, though, that people choose Chrome over Firefox for the extensions (quite the opposite, in fact). Atlassian User Interface -- Javascript HTML UI toolkit, opensourced by Atlassian. (via lachlanhardy on Twitter) Open Source Ethics and Dead End Derivatives -- open source hardware is dealing...

Four short links: 22 March 2010

Marketcetera -- open source trading platform. Google Code University: Programming Languages -- video-based classes on C++, Python, Java, and Go. Skipfish -- open sourced web application security scanner, from Google. Professor Swaps Grades for XP -- divided class into guilds, awarded XP for achieving various solo, guild, and pickup quests. (via johnny723 on Twitter)...

Four short links: 19 March 2010

Tsung -- GPLed multi-protocol (HTTP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, WebDAV, SOAP, XMPP) load tester written in Erlang. Myth of China's Manufacturing Prowess -- The latest data shows [...] that the United States is still the largest manufacturer in the world. In 2008, U.S. manufacturing output was $1.8 trillion, compared to $1.4 trillion in China (UN data. China’s data do not separate...

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Open Source Experts

whurley is the Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. where he is responsible for creating BMC's open source agenda and overseeing the company's participation in various free, and open source software communities.

Van Lindberg is a software engineer and practicing attorney. What he does most, though, is translate - from "lawyer" to "engineer" and back. He likes working with both computer code and legal code to get things done. Van's current work touches both traditional intellectual property and the emerging field of open source…

Tyler Mitchell is the author of Web Mapping Illustrated - a book focused on teaching how to use popular Open Source Geospatial Toolkits. He works as the Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, aka OSGeo.

Todd Ogasawara is the editor of MobileAppsToday.com. He has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Mobile Devices category for the past several years. You can find his personal website focusing on Mobile Device Technology at www.mobileviews.com.

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