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Friday, July 27th, 2007Yep, that old Marty McFly has gotten him self into a fine mess again and yes he has a skateboard. This time he has got his work cut out for him. He was sent back in time not to Hill Valley but to Houston Texas to rescue a software company called BMC. His […]
Top ten things you will never see at a Tivoli conference
Thursday, July 26th, 2007If you have been reading my blog you know I am in Portland this week at OSCON 2007. I have some intersting cultural difference I would like to share in a classic top ten format…
Top ten things you will never see at a Tivoli conference
1) A job postings board.
2) More Macbooks than IBM […]
OSON 2007 Update (Only two fights so far)
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 Anyone who knows me knows I have been annoying presenters at conferences for over 30 years. Ask the folks at IBM (Heath and Chris be thankful I just started blogging). Well I have been here for two hours and and I have already gotten into an argument with Mark Shuttleworth from Ubuntu and Tim O’Reilly.  The argument […]
Imagine how boring this would be if I had a real job…
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Microsoft and HP Blow into Town
A front has moved up from the Valley, so to speak, to join forces with the tempest of Redmond. Microsoft and HP announced a huge deal yesteday that essentially combines HP services and the Microsoft technology platform in a single, comprehensive offering.
Is it a Sellers Market?
Monday, July 23rd, 2007HP To Buy Opsware For $1.6 Billion - Software
Looks like the price of eggs is going up? IBM probably paid less than a billion for MicroMuse and Collation. Even better MicroMuse was already partnered and fully integrated into Collation.
OSCON 2007 - Sessions I plan on attending …
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Wednesday:
Open Source on the O’Reilly Radar
OpenNMS Case Studies
Network Monitoring with Nagios
Playing by the Rules: Getting Corporate Blessing to Use Open Source Software
Using Puppet to Manage Your Network
BOF Session - Business Collaboration - Rod Beckstrom
Thursday:
State of Lightning Talks
Building an Open Hardware Platform
Dispelling Legal Myths: Things OSS Developers […]
OSCON 2007 BOF Session- ESM OSS Big 4 vs. Little 4
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Big 4 vs. Little 4
I have put togenther an outline for the BOF session and a draft topic template for my  session Thursday, July 26 from 7:30-8:30pm in Room F150. O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 • July 23-27, 2007 • Portland, Oregon.
If anone is intered contributing please fee free to post here or call me at 919 […]
OSCON 2007 BOF Session (Big 4 vs. Little 3)
Saturday, July 21st, 2007Big 4 vs. Little 4 (Enterprise Systems Management)
Thursday, July 26 from 7:30-8:30pm in Room F150.
O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 • July 23-27, 2007 • Portland, Oregon
What does IP mean to me?
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007A friend of mine recently asked me what IP means to me. I use the acronym a lot and I know it can mean a lot of different things.  Instead of regurgitate wikiepedia let me give you a few snips of what I think of when I use the letters IP. A few years ago […]
Do open source vendors eat their own?
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Open Source Vendors and Monopolies?
I have some opinions on this topic. See my previous posts. I also will be sharing my opinions with the author of this article latter this afternoon.
