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Open Source and Cloud

Open Source and Cloud

By on May 3, 2012 in Cloud Computing, Community Manager, Data Center, Database, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Applications, Information Technology, Networking, Software, Storage, Virtualization

This week I attended the Open Cloud Conference at Silicon Valley Cloud Center in Sunnyvale. There were a lot of interesting sessions, and one was on the role of open source for cloud. As there was a debate during the conference on the relationship between open source cloud and open cloud, they are not exactly [...]

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Open Innovation, Mozilla’s Way

Open Innovation, Mozilla’s Way

By on February 9, 2012 in Cloud Computing, Community Manager, Data Center, Enterprise 2.0, Information Technology, IT Decision-making, Software

A keynote speech by a prominent expert usually kicks off a conference. In Teladata’s recent Technology Convergence Conference on collaboration between IT and facilities departments, Pascal Finette’s interesting speech was very unusual. He talked about a new way of running a business with open innovation—that is, with everything open. Pascal Finette of Mozilla I never [...]

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Cisco Confirms Open Source Telepresence

By on April 20, 2010 in Community Manager, Telecommunication

Confirming something I wrote in SmartPlanet yesterday, Cisco said it is making its Telepresence technology open source. Divesting ownership of the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol, which links Cisco Telepresence to other companies’ videoconferencing systems, was a condition of its $3.3 billion acquisition of Tandberg, the Norwegian videoconferencing company. Credit: Cisco Systems Inc. The International Multimedia Telecommunications [...]

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Hot Tech Companies

By on March 9, 2010 in Community Manager

Today’s Wall Street Journal lists the top 50 Venture-backed companies as The Next Big Thing. After hearing about and reading about how bad things are here in California, “worse fiscal shape than Greece,” and how “unfriendly” California is to business, it makes you wonder how 60% of the 50 companies listed are based in California. [...]

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TLLTS Guest Tara Spalding from Groundwork Open Source

By on February 5, 2010 in Community Manager, Podcasts

Tara Spalding is the VP of Marketing at Groundwork Open Source. Groundwork has a community project known as MonitoringForge.org, which is platform agnostic. Before GWOS, she was at SugarCRM. Click here to listen to the podcast from The Linux Link Tech Show in mp3 format.

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The Selfish Meme and The Future of Technology

By on August 4, 2009 in Community Manager, Data Center

It should be no surprise that, in tracking the technology business, the world’s best thinkers borrow from the lexicon of biology and the natural world. After all, both follow an evolutionary, heuristic, process with all sorts of connections and shared metaphors. For example, the cultural equivalent for a gene is called a meme: an idea [...]

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Open Source ERP Gets A Big Win

By on May 26, 2009 in Community Manager, CRM/ERP/ETL

A big win for open source ERP came today as Compiere announced that a multi-national manufacturing company has fully integrated the provider’s open source platform. For any technology with promise, perception is everything. Open source ERP has held promise but it is large implementations that give companies more reason to make the switch. OSG Europe [...]

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