OLEX Roadmap Update

Posted by Nathan Bobbin on July 31st, 2008 in Open Source Trends

We've recently made a decision at OpenLogic to focus more on adding novel, valuable, instructive content to OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX).  Not that this hasn't been important in the past, but it's not been a top priority; building out our certified library has. Here's a list of some of the topics that have been suggested by [...]

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Research Shows that Bumper Stickers = Road Rage

Posted by Nathan Bobbin on July 7th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

Replicator quoting research which shows that people who customize their car (from bumper stickers to whatever) are more likely to engage in road rage.  The logic is that the customization is indicative of someone that thinks of their car as personal space and more easily tilts when confronted with bad driving.  I didn't read the [...]

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Matthew Aslett Declares France the 2008 Europe Open Source Champion

Posted by Nathan Bobbin on July 7th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

Matthew Aslett recently completed a tour of Europe, profiling open source policies and usage in European countries.  Tongue-in-Cheek, he presents a summary of his findings in football tournament format:   http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/06/30/open-source-champions-of-europe/  

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Navigating the Long Tail of Open Source

Posted by Nathan Bobbin on June 30th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

Over on the 451 CAOS Theory blog, Matthew Aslett  references the CIO.com’s Executives Online blogathon where respondents indicated that Google was their first choice destination when looking for open source software.  Matt says he was expecting more mention of sites like OLEX.  Take the same survey this time next year, and I'll bet that open [...]

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Innovate Responsibly

Posted by Nathan Bobbin on May 28th, 2008 in Uncategorized

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 [...]

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Very Nice Presentation on SCRUM

Posted by Nathan Bobbin on March 25th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

Jeremy Thomas posted a very cool presentation about SCRUM in his Agile Development blog post. We use SCRUM to develop products here at OpenLogic and I don't think that I'll ever use another development methodology. I've worked in waterfall, spiral, and rapid iteration environments, but nothing compares to the ease and efficacy of SCRUM. As [...]

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Is Linux Commoditizing the Desktop OS Market?

Posted by Nathan Bobbin on March 17th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

Glyn Moody wrote an interesting article for the Guardian earlier this month titled “Why falling Flash prices threaten Microsoft.”  It got me thinking about commoditization; specifically pondering the question:  Is Linux driving the O/S towards commoditization as many would have us believe? The key point of Mr. Moody’s article is that several converging market forces [...]

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