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- OSCON outgrows Portland
- After six years of bringing 2,000 people each summer to the Oregon Conference Center in Portland, O'Reilly is moving the show to the Bay Area for next year. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: LinuxWorld, Portland, OSCON, Linux, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- The tribes of open source gather at OSCON
- If every show is a trial, users are the jury. You make your decisions signing support contracts, ordering online, in stores, in what you tell your friends. Without you there's no show. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Geek, OSCON, Wannabes, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- What is on your OSCON agenda?
- What is on your OSCON agenda?The most important thing is continue defining and promoting LSB.We need drivers that are LSB versioned, NOT versioned by distribution version. We also need driver systems that are backwards compatible so they can load old drivers. And of course we need better coverage in general...
- Tags: Printers, Desktops, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, OSCON, OSCON Agenda, desktop, LSB
- Discussion threads 2007-07-20
- 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
- Google pre-empts OSCON headlines
- Google pre-empts OSCON headlinesSourceforge killer?Oh, come on. I can accept Google is Google and things they do have consequences, but really some things are not done well under the traditional capitalist model and they are a publicly traded company. Try looking for a cheap collected edition of George...
- Tags: Google Inc., OSCON
- Discussion threads 2006-07-26
- Qlusters serving all virtualization schemes
- Qlusters serving all virtualization schemeshmmm.... Abundance, Asia, and automation""What developers need to realize is you can't sit on your laurels. If you just write the same thing you'll be commoditized."TRUE, THE PRESSURES MICROSOFT IS FACING TODAY FROM OSS (EG LINUX, OPEN OFFICE ..)"The goal should be to eliminate...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OSCON, virtualization scheme, Qlusters, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2006-07-25
- Google pre-empts OSCON headlines
- Google has grown so large that its every move is a big headline. It's like a yacht in the midst of rowboats, swamping everything around it, sometimes by accident. Another analogy might be a whale among minnows. ...
- Tags: OSCON, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-07-25
- Freedom to change: Nick Gall's OSCON keynote
- Freedom to change: Nick Gall's OSCON keynote1212
- Tags: Nick Gall, OSCON
- Discussion threads 2005-08-04
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- Forbes rewrites the history of open source
- Forbes rewrites the history of open sourceI guess it was a political articleYou just convinced me that the purpose of this article in Forbes being written was to score political points. Which makes its rewriting of history doubly-disgusting.Libertarian?I'm pretty sure the GPL is normally associated with socialism, not libertarianism. Libertarians...
- Tags: open source, Forbes, libertarian, software
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Microsoft makes pledges to support Apache, PHP, Ruby
- Like Dana, I was surprised to hear of Microsoft's decision to become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation, announced at OSCON late last week. It wasn't the only announcement. The Redmond, Wash based Windows giant also shared that it would make a contribution to the...
- Tags: PHP, Apache Software Foundation, Ruby, Microsoft Corp., Scripting Languages, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Why McLuhan was right when it comes to attention
- Through his always enriching podcast, I've heard Cory Doctorow give variations on his privacy talk at least five or six times over the last year. The most current iteration is available at Intel's/Josh Bancroft's BitStories. In responding to an audience question, Cory explains exactly why, when it comes...
- Tags: Message, Liberty, Computer, Cory, Productivity, Podcasts, Internet, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- 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
- Roundup of Adobe announcements last week
- Adobe made a bunch of announcements yesterday that I couldn't do justice because I was at OSCON. A lot of them are from Kevin Lynch's keynote speech at the Ajax Experience but we also had a couple of others. Ajaxian had a great writeup of Kevin's keynote that is well...
- Tags: Flash, ColdFusion, Ajax, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Should we take Wikia more seriously?
- One of the big stories of the weekend was Wikia's purchase of the Grub spider from LookSmart and its release under an open source license.Media around the world went into hype -rdrive, repeating Jimmy Wales' comments at OSCON that Wikia would now take on Google and Yahoo.You see, Google and...
- Tags: mass market, Internet, Google, General, Database Management, content
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- WHurley spins BMC into open source
- William Hurley, who goes by WHurley, has been an open source advocate and organizer for many years.When he left Qlusters recently for BMC Software, the Houston-based company which began with accounting software and grew like a snip of oilpatch, I wondered how far he could spin that company toward open source.The...
- Tags: Strategy, management, Enterprise Policy, business models, BSD, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Microsoft now wants its Shared Source licenses to qualify as open source
- Microsoft has decided it wants its Shared Source license to get the official "open source" label, after all.Microsoft officials said at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference OSCON conference this week that they are going to seek Open Source Initiative OSI approval, but have not provided a specific timetable as to...
- Tags: Shared Source, Linux
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- OSCON and rich internet applications
- I just flew into Portland for OSCON and in looking over the session list it looks like it's going to be a pretty good conference for rich internet applications. Adobe doesn't have a booth, but James Ward and I are both going to be around and we're hoping to hold...
- Tags: Adobe, AIR, Ajax, Flex, Google, Linux
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Open source security arrives with Untangle
- A few months after launching this blog I asked why there was no open source security.Now there is. Untangle has released its network gateway under GPVv2. CEO and blogger Bob Walters compares his product to SONICwall and Watchguard, saying "we'll sell services and premium products on top of it."Load the software...
- Tags: Security, resellers, mass market, GPL, General, business models, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- Microsoft remains odd man out on calendar interoperability
- Read a transcript of the podcast. The iCalendar interoperability standard has brought productivity and publish-and-subscribe ease to only a portion of those wishing to share their calendars broadly. Now a new emerging standard, CalDAV, can make cross-client calendar interoperability an even greater benefit. Apple, maybe IBM, and others are...
- Tags: Google Inc., CalDAV
- Blog posts 2006-09-27
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