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		<title>Zabbix Finds a Home in USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World is on Crack #4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I am brought in by a &#8220;Big Four&#8221; to help close a deal for an OS monitoring and services gig. Then, at the end of the meeting the customer starts to rant about how he has already spent a half-million dollars on a network management tool that doesn&#8217;t work. Furthermore, he says that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Might be Giants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever see the move They Might be Giants with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward? It is a great movie. George C. Scott is a retired judge who believes that he is Sherlock Holmes, and Woodward is a psychiatrist who has been hired by Scottâ€™s family to declare him insane. Woodward travels with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now you&#8217;re either on the bus or off the bus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;`There are going to be times,&#8217; says Kesey, `when we can&#8217;t wait for somebody. Now you&#8217;re either on the bus or off the bus. If you&#8217;re on the bus, and you get left behind, then you&#8217;ll find it again. If you&#8217;re off the bus in the first place&#8211;then it won&#8217;t make a damn.&#8217; And nobody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMG Call for Late Breaking Papers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to try to squeeze my ESM Bake-Off into this. If anyone wants to help, please feel free to contact me. I already have a few helpers. http://www.cmg.org/conference/cmg2007/late-breaking.html]]></description>
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		<title>Fake-Forkers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beware of the Fake Forkers. The VCâ€™s have been chomping at the bit for 10 years in anticipation of IT&#8217;s next big bubble. Well, hold on, boys. Sheâ€™s a-comin&#8217; round the mountain in 2008, a tipping point for this next bubble. You know that, as we speak, thousands of startups are creating projects in college [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Reasons why you need an Open Source Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/opensource/10-reasons-why-you-need-an-open-source-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[10 Reasons why you need an Open Source Strategy Another good post about why OSS will win.]]></description>
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		<title>Waiters v. Cooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever worked for a proprietary software company, you will probably get a kick out of this story. A friend&#8217;s daughter recently took a job as a waitress. My friend was explaining how his daughter is always complaining that the cooks are prima donnas. To hear her tell it, if not for waitresses, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Oldie but a Goodie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some of the research that I&#8217;ve been doing about open source, I have been listening to a lot of old podcasts, including a great one from LinuxWorld 2006 Boston. Four giants from the open source world (John Roberts of SugarCRM, Marten Mickos of MySQL, Marc Fleury of JBoss (now part of Red Hat), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Proprietary Vendors Wonâ€™t Open their Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sure that this question has many answers, but here are a few of mine. They might be embarrassed by their code. The idea of open source code is that lot of eye-balls look at the source code. In proprietary software companies, fewer than 5 people might actually look at the source code of [...]]]></description>
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