This week’s Open Source Business Conference was a strange meeting of Enterprise IT users, venture capitalists, and free software entrepreneurs. The opening keynote was delivered by Red Hat’s freshly minted CEO Jim Whitehurst who gave a very modest speech noting that while Red Hat has been a leading open source company they have not necessarily [...]
Thanks to Tony Lawrence for inspiring today’s post. Hopefully these links don’t stink. Anthony Lawrence: Reasons I Don’t Like Social Media Tools that once were valuable for pointing out the best of the web often become obsolete or spammy (you might say this about Digg). Tony’s example is StumbleUpon, a link sharing site that I [...]
If you want an easy way to install open source software you might want to take a look at Bitnami. There isn’t a huge amount of information about BitNami but a quick whois shows me that Bitnami.com was registered by BitRock founder, Daniel Lopez Ridruejo. I would guess that this is the same technology as [...]
