Posts Tagged ‘open source’

I am in the process of an ETL engagement with a client who is using Pentaho, an open source BI suite of products. This has made me reach out to my resources and get caught up with the open source world of BI, and especially Pentaho. 

CRN has a list of the ten best open source projects of 2011.  I thought you all would find it interesting.  You should hit the entire presentation for why they made the top 10. 10.  Fedora 16 9.    Ubuntu 11.4 8.    OpenStack (Cloud solution) 7.    Asterisk 10 (Open Source VOIP) 6.   MYSQL 5.6 5.   Android […]

It is interesting to note that in the final chapter in the webOS saga is HP has decided to open-source the operating system HP received in the purchase of Palm back in 2010.  George Santayana once wrote in his Reason in Common Sense that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  […]

Erin Eschen put me on to an interesting article Krishnan Subrumanian cloudcave.  The premise of the article is that things like open source and the cloud started out small and at the lower end of organizations and then built up a very respectable set of users………many times taking management by surprise. Here’s two cents on […]

I track a bunch goings on for a bunch of vendors.  Alfresco, an open source ECM solution, just published a newsletter that talks about the concepts of core vs context.  Bill Robinson does a good job of explaining the concepts and applying it to his specific solution. Moore’s thesis, which would apply to any independent […]