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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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• Use Comet with Flex for Enterprise RIAs
• Business Benefits of Cloud Computing and the Dynamic Data Center
• How to Locate a Drupal Module
• 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?
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Open Source News & Commentary

Four short links: 21 June 2010

Law of Success 2.0 -- a blog of interviews with famous and/or interesting people, from Brad Feld to Uri Geller. Pioneer One -- crowdsourced funding for TV show, perhaps a hint of the future. Pilot shot for $6,000 which was raised through KickStarter. Distributed via BitTorrent. DrasticTools -- PHP/MySQL visualisation tools, including TreeMap, tag cloud, hierarchical bar chart, and...

Four short links: 18 June 2010

Facebook Changes Crawling Policy (for the better) -- they're implementing their crawling policy in robots.txt and not in additional contractual terms. This is in response to Pete Warden pointing out that robots.txt is industry standard and will avoid confusion such as landed him with large lawyer bills. This change came from Bret Taylor, their CTO, who was product manager...

Four short links: 17 June 2010

What is IBM's Watson? (NY Times) -- IBM joining the big data machine learning race, and hatching a Blue Gene system that can answer Jeopardy questions. Does good, not great, and is getting better. Google Lays Out its Mobile Strategy (InformationWeek) -- notable to me for Rechis said that Google breaks down mobile users into three behavior groups: A....

NASA technology leads to better medical decisions

In this podcast, Chris Mattmann, a senior computer scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discusses objected-oriented data technology (OODT) and health IT.

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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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