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The Comdexification of Linux: Linuxworld hits San Francisco next week with 11,000 attendees. The media is filled with stories about the "mainstreaming" of open source.Maybe. I'm more worried about open source Comdexifying, about Comdexification if you will.If you're under 30 you may barely know what I'm talking about. But back in the last century...; Tags: mass market, marketing, Linux Server OS, Linux Desktop OS, Linux, General, Events, business models; Blog posts 2007-08-03
Will Microsoft fit into OSI compromise?: The last time I wrote about the OSI it was to praise the "peace deal" it made on the licensing front.The question today is, can Microsoft fit inside that deal?At the same OSCON conference where OSI approved its first "attribution" license, Microsoft "good cop" Bill Hilf left said last week...; Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, Red Hat, Microsoft, Legal, General, Events; Blog posts 2007-07-31
Microsoft Project to get open source competition: Projity, which has been selling its project management software in the form of Software as a Service SaaS, will launch an open source version at LinuxWorld next week, under the name OpenProj.CEO Marc O'Brien saidÂ download and community sites should be ready in time for the show, but that the company...; Tags: Strategy, Microsoft, marketing, Implementations, General, Events, Distributions, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-27
Office 2.0 Conference - an iPhone for every attendee: I've been working with Ismael Ghalimi, Oliver Starr, and Brian Solis on developing a Mobility and Productivity track for the upcoming Office 2.0 Conference. We're still in the early planning stages in terms of content for that track but Ismael made a bombshell announcement yesterday that is tremendously exciting. Every...; Tags: Productivity, Mobility, iPhone, Events; Blog posts 2007-07-26
What is on your OSCON agenda?: The Open Source Convention OSCON, one of the two big summer events on the open source calendar the other is LinuxWorld in San Francisco happens next week in Portland, Oregon.The two events are quite distinct: OSCON is a theater. LinuxWorld is a show floor. OSCON is intimate conversation. LinuxWorld is hard negotiation. OSCON...; Tags: Strategy, marketing, management, General, Events; Blog posts 2007-07-20

Fourth Mashup Camp proves how the unconference format still has legs: For those who still question whether the unconference format for events has any staying power, Mashup Camp, now in its fourth edition, is proving that it definitely has legs. There are a lot of different approaches to unconferences. But virtually all of them involve content that's for the attendees,...; Tags: Web technology, Image Gallery, General, Events; Blog posts 2007-07-19
Caught on tape: Supposedly user-friendly label printing foiled by Microsoft and Avery: I'm at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley where I'm running Mashup Camp and, in true DIY do it yourself fashion and in an effort to keep costs low, I take care of printing the badges on my own. Where ever I go to run these events, an HP...; Tags: Video, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Events; Blog posts 2007-07-17
Four-day Mashup Camp off to a good start with two days of 'Mashup University': I'm at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA Silicon Valley and we're just wrapping up the first day of Mashup University.Â Mashup U is a two day crash course on developing mashups with all but one of the classes (John Herren's introduction to mashup development, see the slides)...; Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, General, Events; Blog posts 2007-07-16
What is the true value of open source?: There are many ways to measure the value of open source. But no one measure gives the true picture.(A print of this hangs in my living room. Its presence here will be explained.)Savio Rodrigues recently measured it through venture capital returns. But with open source squeezing costs out of software,...; Tags: business models, Events, General, Infrastructure, management, mass market, Strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-10
Oh yeah - Skype on the N800 is coming soon: Kevin C. Tofel of jkOnTheRun just reported that on his way out of the Digital Experience show in New York City today, he saw Skype running on a Nokia N800 internet tablet. According to Kevin's report, this should be downloadable in July. I've been waiting for this since the N800...; Tags: Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry, Events; Blog posts 2007-06-28
Enterprise 2.0 coverage: I'm at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this week. There's a tremendous amount of energy at the show â€" the exhibition space was packed wall-to-wall yesterday. As I'm working at the show and attending some meetings in Boston, there's been less time than I'd hoped for visiting with companies...; Tags: Events; Blog posts 2007-06-20
Black Duck world tour hits issue turbulence: Since celebrating the third anniversary of his flagship protexIP last month Black Duck Software CEO Doug Levin has been on the road a lot.He moderated an OSBC panel with Microsoft just as Novell was preparing to release details of its deal with the company. Then he flew to Russia where...; Tags: Strategy, Software as a Service, Microsoft, GPL, Events, Enterprise Policy, Development, business models; Blog posts 2007-06-07
What's the best defense for open source?: The OSBC is in San Francisco this week, worrying over defending against Microsoft patent claims.Our own Ed Burnette was intrigued by hints in Jonathan Schwartz' blog this week that Sun Microsystems might help defend Ubuntu and Red Hat, if push came to shove.Interesting given that Sun isn't even a member...; Tags: Applications, Distributions, documentation, Enterprise Policy, Events, Implementations, Legal, Microsoft, Patents, Strategy, Sun Microsystems; Blog posts 2007-05-23
Open source and the attention economy: With the continued growth of the open source economy we in the media find our job is to pay attention.This is not what's best for our financial health. I have found that most stories I write about small open source start-ups go unread and unremarked upon.On the other hand, all...; Tags: Applications, Events, General, marketing, Microsoft, Software as a Service, VOIP; Blog posts 2007-05-23
Interop GM Lenny Heymann: Green is in, Red (Novell) is back, Web 2.0 is hot: It's the day before Interop here in Las Vegas. What will be a polished show floor tomorrow is covered in crates, plastic, and speeding forklifts today. Even so, I took to the show floor in search of disruptive solutions and interesting people. You've already seen Thureon's Armarac in my...; Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Video, Software Infrastructure, Interop 2007, Hardware Infrastructure, Events; Blog posts 2007-05-22
Following the money in open source: Open source turns money flows inside-out.As I noted before, the development process in open source is transparent, while the use of open source products in the enterprise can be rather opaque.Open source enterprises end up spending a lot of money on the front-end, building communities, recruiting developers, while the sales...; Tags: Strategy, marketing, General, Events, Development, business models; Blog posts 2007-05-22
Interop '07: First, Sun's datacenter in a trailer. Now? Armarac's wall-mounted datacenter: Datacenters are showing up in the strangest places. Two weeks ago, while in San Francisco, I took you for a video walkthrough of Sun's Project Blackbox. Project Blackbox is basically a shell of datacenter in a shipping container the kind hauled around by tractor trailers. It's got everything that's needed...; Tags: Video, IT Management, Interop 2007, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Events; Blog posts 2007-05-21
It's Free Comic Book Day: Head on out to your local purveyor of comic books and grab a handful of free books today. You can find the closest participating shop here. A list of titles can be found here.The annual event is the perfect opportunity to...; Tags: Events; Blog posts 2007-05-05
Getting Things Done - Southwest style: Today I attended the GTD Roadmap seminar in Scottsdal, AZ. This is the second time Ive been to the Roadmap, a concentrated one-day dive into David Allens system for stress-free productivity which long-time readers know I am a passionate advocate of. While at Web 2.0 Expo a couple of weeks...; Tags: Productivity, Events; Blog posts 2007-04-27
How to: Link Outlook and OneNote: Eddie VanDerbeck at GottaBeMobile.com offers a short and sweet tip on using the new Outlook-OneNote integration. This is one of my favorite things about the Office 2007 upgrade and I use it all the time. In fact, at last weeks ETech Conference I subscribed to the event calendar, added the...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Events, ETech; Blog posts 2007-04-03