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Friday, October 14th, 2005

EuroOSCON: Head Space

Nat Torkington: “What do the attendees of an OSCON in Europe want from such a conference? Like siblings, OSCON US and OSCON Europe will have similarities and differences, and when the first tutorial starts on Monday, we’ll begin to figure out OSCON Europe’s identity.”

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Monday, June 27th, 2005

Tales from the Italian Java Conference

Gianugo Rabellino: “Time will tell, of course, but my suggestion to the plethora of OSS companies I met in the last few days would be learning to be a part of the bigger picture before planning to be ’someone’ in the commercial OSS world. If markets are conversations, then clearly no man (and no company) […]

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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

IBM buys application management firm GlueCode

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters): “International Business Machines Corp. on Tuesday said it has acquired Gluecode Software, an open-source firm that helps companies manage business applications on their office networks.”

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Friday, April 8th, 2005

My OSBC Wrap Up

My OSBC Wrap Up | Fooworks - ‘blog of Steve Mallett: “Business can use open source software to kill the costs of a lot of software that they would otherwise spend money on and free that capital to do something useful. Like marketing, hiring brains, have a bigger sales force, provide better services, etc etc […]

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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

OSBC - Open Source Town Hall

Matthew Langham:
I would have liked to have seen someone up there who is actually working on an Open Source project and also pitching/selling that project to corporate customers. Finding the balance between both worlds is one of the most important questions or issue that you have to solve to be successful.

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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

Geoffrey Moore on The Role of Open Source Computing

Ross Mayfield:
What is open source anyway? Non-proprietary product model, a value added services model (contributed, compensated), a community (self-organizing collaborative, repository of knowledge, forum for sharing best practices — these dynamics simply work), an altruistic behavior (forgoes proprietary returns to extend reach to all, anti-Microsoft passion, cool hobby, great career development, useful to my job), […]

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