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What the SCO take-out really means

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

 What the SCO take-out really means
Just imagine the rhetoric, and the political momentum, behind patent reform if an Arab-led consortium were able to tax open source innovation!

IT Management Podcast #005 - The Night John Slept on a Cray

Monday, February 11th, 2008

IT Management Podcast #005 - The Night John Slept on a Cray

Why Are You Here?

Monday, February 11th, 2008

In 1987, I took my first crack at starting my own business. At the time, I lived in northern Virginia and had completed my apprenticeship with some local software startups. I was lucky enough to meet an excellent mentor named Ray Padron, who helped me create a business plan and do the VC snake dance.

I am voting for Whurley!

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Now the “Evil Genuis” is really trying to stir the pot. Mixing open source and patent reform in politics… Yikes …

IT Management Podcast #004 - Cloud-crazy!

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

IT Management Podcast #004 - Cloud-crazy!
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2008’s Top Leaders in Open Source Business

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Hooray for the good guys. Some of my partners in crime made the “Top Leaders in Open Source” list.
whurley (he yells at me if I make the w capital)
whurley has sort of been my mentor for the last year, and we were involved in the BarcampESM together. I look forward to continued work […]

BarcampESM - Erik Dahl on the need for an open agent

Monday, January 28th, 2008

“Adventures” in Open Source

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Tarus is shaking things up a little bit on his blog:
Show Me Da Money (a Cautionary Tale)
Why All the Hate?

NOOS22OSS Get Over It…

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Wah, Wah, Wah… IBM is not going to open source OS/2.
I’m Sorry… this is just seems silly

The IT Management Guys Podcast #002

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Episode 002 - DevCampTivoli, DMTF, Open Source Spending Bonanza, BSM, & Open Source

Analyzing Programming Languages

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Analyzing Programming Languages
I created an interesting post about some of the up-and-coming programing languages on my OSitH site. I decided not to replicate it here.

Sun Buys MySQL for Around 1 Billion

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Sun to Buy MySQL
Sun will pay approximately $800 million in cash for all of MySQL’s stock and assume about $200 million in options.

Wikia a new open source search engine

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, unveiled on Monday his new project Wikia. Wikia is an open source search engine. Everyone agrees that it’s no Google, but Wikipedia was no Britannica when it started. You have to applaud Wales for trying to disrupt the search market, and I really hope […]

Barcamp - BarcampESM - Update #2

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Barcamp - BarcampESM.org
This is starting to look like a world class event. For the first time in the ESM industry, we will have sessions that include some of the top open source monitoring providers with two of the leading commercial monitoring providers talking about how to improve monitoring and ESM (”Monitoring: The good, the […]

How Will You Shine?

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

If you are interested in seeing another blog site that I have started, please visit…
How Will You Shine - Podcast

BarcampESM … Update …

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Less than two weeks away…

General Motors Goes Open Source and Enterprise 2.0

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

The new GMNext.com website by GM is a good sign that the brick-and-mortars are getting the message. The site includes a blog driven by the open source product Wordpress and supposedly will be adding a Wiki soon.

Additional notes…
I use a really cool too,l to find out what a website is created with. It […]

Announcement: OMC Public Beta (http://beta.openmanagement.org - a new and vastly improved website)

Monday, December 31st, 2007

In case you missed the email…

My Top 17 Favorite Posts of 2007

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

The first question is, “If you are the only person who laughs at your joke is it still funny?” If your answer is “No,” then I strongly advise you not to read this blog entry.

I’m Sorry… this is just seems silly

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Should IBM Open Source OS/2?

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