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 [...]

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I am on my way to the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco today and I am excited it’s always good to see old friends and talk about selling free software without getting the 1,000-yard stare. If you are going to be there hit me up on Twitter.
 
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I attended the LISA 07 Birds of a Feather (BoF) on Configuration Management led by Luke Kanies of Puppet tonight. He defines Puppet as the infrastructure to manage your infrastructure.
A straw poll of about 50 attendees (who were Large Installation Systems Administrators) indicated that they used the following tools for configuration management.

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