Pin ItRobert Kaye blogged about the OSCON talk An Open Source Project Called "Failure:" Community Antipatterns to Know and Avoid. As I read it I was thinking, yep, yep, yep, and then I realized, "wait! These don't just apply to open source. They apply to any project." For example: "When no one makes a decision [...]
Read More »Pin ItLast year, there was a bit of discussion about how the launch of Vista was going to open a lot of doors for Linux on the desktop. I’m not going to go into a discussion about the pros and cons of Windows Vista and why the door is open to alternatives, but I have [...]
Read More »Pin ItSo last year I blogged about a new trend at OSCON, Donations for Tshirts. This year, free Tshirts were back. (I got four.) So what confuses me is that supposedly the economy isn't doing well now, but here were a bunch of companies with nice booths, handing out tshirts. I figure either: the economy [...]
Read More »Pin ItEnterprises that are new to open source software often get started with databases, web and application servers, and scripting languages, but open source reporting tools have become increasingly popular in the enterprise over the past few years. Applications like Jasper, Pentaho, and BIRT are now widely used by enterprises, and each comes with unique [...]
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