As Abhijit Nadgouda says in "Benefits of Online Repositories", it only takes a simple command or two in Linux to download and install or upgrade a package. If necessary, even dependencies will be downloaded and installed and you don't have to know anything about these new packages to make it all work in a matter [...]
Read More »In his recent blog post, “When Innovation Pays Off”, Jeremy Thomas recounts a recent success enjoyed by his team at active.com. As you might guess from the post title, this success was fueled by innovation, specifically by the innovative action of a single team member. Innovation is clearly not for everyone. Many companies pride themselves [...]
Read More »When I saw this quote in twitter from Michael Chilson, I had to laugh: "using open source software is like driving a car with a million mechanics who have each had a turn." One of the problems people have with open source software is too many voices and too many choices. When you buy proprietary [...]
Read More »This year at JavaOne was the first time since 1999 that I actually got to attend a bunch of sessions, thanks to not having to man an OpenLogic booth. Overall, it was quite good. There were quite a few parallel tracks and always something interesting in at least one of them. Perhaps unsurprising, but the [...]
Read More »Yesterday Sandro Groganz wrote about his experience helping a customer get started with blogging to promote their open source products, and towards the end of the post he offers some good tips for common questions companies have as they enter the world of blogging. While I agree with Sandro that organizations should adhere to some [...]
Read More »We have some upcoming webinars on open source governance. There are three webinars in the series, but you can register for just the topics that interest you. Here are the three topics: May 20: How to Inventory your Use of Open Source Software. We’ll show how to use a free open source tool, OSS Discovery, [...]
Read More »We recently announced new capabilities added to OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX). OLEX is a free portal where enterprise developers can research and download certified, enterprise-ready open source. OpenLogic’s library of certified open source projects has now passed 400 open source projects. Each project in the Certified Library, made available on OLEX at olex.openlogic.com, has passed a rigorous 42 point [...]
Read More »I've been trying new presentation and communication techniques. I've started twittering, I've moved to Presentation Zen model slides, I've given talks to small groups, given keynotes to rooms of 700 and been on a panel in front of 3000 people. Now I'm going to try a live text chat – I think it's seriously going [...]
Read More »You can build communities but first you have to understand them, enjoy them and play in them and one of the key things is to listen at least as much as you talk. The transition from traditional business and marketing to Web 2.0 is a tough one. This cartoon shows the confusion some companies have [...]
Read More »I had a great day at CommunityOne yesterday – Sun did a great job of putting on a good community conference. It started out with the community panel – I was a bit nervous as not only was Matt Asay moderating (and he likes to stir the pot) but it was in front of 3000 [...]
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