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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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Now for the first time, we are streaming tutorials live from OSCON. If you can't make the trip to Portland next week, you can still take part in selected tutorials delivered directly to your computer. OSCON tutorials are led by leaders and innovators in their fields. When you attend virtually, you'll take part via a live video feed of the tutorial as it is happening. You'll have the opportunity to interact virtually, sharing comments and asking questions of the presenter.

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Open Source Answers

• How to Share code snippets to reference in your blogs using Gist
• How to lose friends and alienate people (OSCON presentation)
• Open Source Cloud Computing with Eucalyptus and Ubuntu
• 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

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Open Source News & Commentary

Report from Debian Conference

DebConf 2010 was held in New York City. This blog covers several interesting presentations and some general observations about the Debian community.

Four short links: 6 August 2010

AWS: Forget the Revenue, Did You See the Margins? (RedMonk) -- According to UBS, Amazon Web Services gross margins for the years 2006 through 2014 are 47%, 48%, 48%, 49%, 49%, 50%, 50.5%, 51%, 53%. (these are analyst projections, so take with grain of salt, but those are some sweet margins if they're even close to accurate) Science Pipes...

OSCON Day 3 Recap

OSCON 2010 provided hundreds of sessions covering open source languages and platforms, practical tutorials that go deep into technical skill and best practices, inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of the latest projects and products, fun networking events and activities, and the best "hallway track" around.

Four short links: 5 August 2010

Delicious Links Clustered and Stacked (Matt Biddulph) -- six years of his delicious links, k-means clustered by tag and graphed. The clusters are interesting, but I wonder whether Matt can identify significant life/work events by the spikes in the graph. Open Data and the Voluntary Sector (OKFN) -- Open data will give charities new ways to find and share...

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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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