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I’m Sorry… this is just seems silly

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Should IBM Open Source OS/2?

Excellent Post on System Management, OSS, and Perfromance

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Digging Deeper: Systems Management
Need to add this guy to my rss.

What if I only had a hour to live?

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I was flipping channels this evening in my hotel room and heard a very touching story about a man who wrote a short Xen like essay about all the things he would do if he had only one hour to live. By the way, he dies shortly after completing the essay. Then, I started […]

Zabbix Finds a Home in USA

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Zabbix is an interesting open source monitoring product that is primarily developed in Latvia.

About two years ago, I had a venture called OpenESM where we were trying to partner with Zabbix, but, quite frankly, I could not understand a word they said and felt in the end that we were going to have communication/support issues. […]

Drupal and Second Life Integration … Drupal is White Hot

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Drupal gets a Second Life framework
Objects in the Second Life virtual world can now be more easily integrated into Web sites running the Drupal content management system thanks to a new third-party module creator released this week.
The new framework, created by third-party Drupal developers 2bits, allows objects inside Second Life to interact with […]

Oh What’s Marty McFly Up To Now?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Q&A: BMC’s William Hurley talks up open source

He’s as comfortable in the boardroom as on his long green skateboard

Zabovo News

Monday, November 26th, 2007

We may be small but we have big ideas. Here are some of the things we are working on…

8 Day old site gets 6165 visits

Monday, November 26th, 2007

I Have Received 6165 Visits in 1 Day

The top 10 consumer open source projects

Monday, November 26th, 2007

The top 10 consumer open source projects

Help Him Help You

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Tarus Balog, “The Mouth of OpenNMS”, in his recent “Thanksgiving” post proclaimed that OpenNMS will always be free. I would say he has chosen a road less traveled.
Adventures in Open Source

Is Paglo a Web 2.0 Version of TADDM?

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Paglo is a crawler/IT search engine that indexes information about a network. Paglo crawls a network, looking for computers,applications and devices. Then Paglo will upload the the data to a central server. Also, the Paglo crawler is based on open source. This sounds “bery” interestin
Paglo

One Laptop Per Child

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

A am sure you have heard this story before but just in case you have not here goes. There are 7 shopping days left for you to give some poverty stricken child a great gift for Christmas and also make a little one in your own family happy as well. Nicholas Negroponte, director of […]

Senior Project Chooses OpenNMS

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Tivoli, HP, OpenNMS
Last week I did a podcast with a DePaul University senior majoring in computer science, Matthew Lechleider. Matthew told me that while building a fictitious company for the project they had to pick a real network management product to manage the fictitious network. After looking at Tivoli and HP they decided to […]

Captain Obvious, over and out

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Gartner - Software licensing costs to decline

Open Source and Education - A Quiet and Slow Revolution

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Open Source and Education - A Quiet and Slow Revolution

Chicago Podcast

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Last week I was teaching a Tivoli class in Chicago and I stopped in at a Chicago Drupal Meetup Group (CDMUG) meeting. I had a great time and created a cool podcast with one of the members.

List to the podcast here…
Matthew’s web site and resume if you are interested!!

I seem to have my head in a cloud today .. yuk yuk yuk

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Here  are two more really good articles about the IBM announcement.
IBM’s ‘Blue Cloud’ signals the tipping point for enterprise IT into services model
Will the biggest clouds stay open source?

Any CIO not using open source “should be fired”

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Any CIO not using open source “should be fired”

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