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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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• 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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Four short links: 29 September 2010

Digital Mirror Demo (video) -- demo of the Digital Mirror tool that analyses relationships. Some very cute visualizations of social proximity and presentation of the things you can learn from email, calendar, etc. (via kgreene on Twitter) Free Machine Learning Books -- list of free online books from MetaOptimize readers. (via newsycombinator on Twitter) Chewie Stats -- sweet chart...

Four short links: 28 September 2010

What Happens at Y Combinator -- a fascinating infomercial for Y Combinator, but it's interesting despite the soft focus. Usually we advise startups to launch when they've built something with a quantum of utility—when they've built something sufficiently better than existing options that at least some users would say "I'm glad this appeared, because now I can finally do...

Four short links: 27 September 2010

Google Acquisition Spending Spree (Venturebeat) -- Google is now on track to acquire a new company every two weeks this year. (via azaaza on Twitter) Where Good Ideas Come From (YouTube) -- this perfectly describes Foo. A Taxonomy of Data Science -- great first post on a new blog by data practitioners. Rockbox -- open source (GPL) firmware for...

Mongo Boston: fast progress, with hitches in the cloud, Map/Reduce

Microsoft's Azure design interfere with running multiple MongoDB servers. Map/Reduce works, but not as fast as it should. MongoDB continues to grow in features and popularity.

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Matthew Russell is a computer scientist from middle Tennessee; and serves Digital Reasoning Systems as the Director of Advanced Technology. Hacking and writing are two activities essential to his renaissance man regimen.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. In addition to Foo Camps ("Friends of O'Reilly" Camps, which gave rise to the "un-conference" movement), O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the Web 2.0…

Stephen Addison Schneiter is currently the Certification Specialist with Certification Partners, LLC, and formerly was a tenured faculty member at the Tennessee Technology Center.

Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux, and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks…

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