Mark De Visser, previously VP of marketing at Zend and Red Hat,
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After a few days at home in Munich, I was fortunate enough to fly to the Southern Hemisphere again. This time, I’m in Argentina, planning to visit also Uruguay and Chile.
I plan to meet with many Sun customers and MySQL users, and talk about Open Source. All Libre, some of it even Gratuita. The sign on the right is from Jardin Botánico in Buenos Aires, where I had some time off today. I’m posting some of the more private observations on blogs.arno.fi/isit so as not to spam this list with observations of Jacaranda trees. (Note: At the time of writing, not many of my South American observations are yet live.)
Kaj wrote about using Dopplr to keep track of where colegues and friends
are traveling and finding out about accidental meetups. (I even
use it to track where one of the Inuits collegues work
plans)
Now I have never met Giuseppe , but we shared slides before so I'd
love to meet him one day .. connecting to him via Dopplr gives me
that opportunity .. who knows one day Dopplr will tell me we have
matching travel schedules.
Earlier this week LinkedIn announced Tripit as one of their first integrated applications, I was a bit dissapointed I use Tripit to let Dopplr learn about …
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I probably ranted a bit too much on the marketing push that Sun
has been trying to make into the Open Source community.
The economical situation isn't really perfect so Sun does deserve
some credit too.
Yesterday Techcrunch published an exclusive interview with Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun and how Sun will be rescued .
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One of the most interesting people I met during my trip to South Africa earlier this week was Aslam Raffee. He keynoted the Sun event, sharing his view of the South African government’s stance on Open Source.
Aslam has two roles: He is the Chief Information Officer at the South African Department of Science and Technology. He is also the chairperson of the OSS Workgroup in the South African Government IT Officers Council.
From Aslam’s presentation, it is clear that South Africa is ahead of the game when it comes to finding out ways to mandate the use of Open Source in Government. I had the privilege to talk to Aslam over lunch, and he described the …
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Open source vendors should focus on value delivered, or risk
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WaveMaker's CEO provides tips for aspiring open-source startups.
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