Fast-growing demand for affordable open source business solutions drives industry response to improve interoperability and lower integration costs OPEN SOLUTIONS SUMMIT, NEW YORK, February 14, 2007 — Ten leading companies today announced the formation of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving adoption of comprehensive open source business solutions. […]
More than 20 Software Company CEOs attending Second Annual Open Source Think Tank March 8 – 10 in Ca
Premier event for open source, community and business draws leaders from Covalent, db4objects, EnterpriseDB, Funambol, Groundwork Open Source, HelmiTech, Intalio, JasperSoft, KnowledgeTree, Laszlo, Mulesource, MySQL, Ohloh, OpenLogic, rSmart, and SugarCRM PALO ALTO, Calif. – February 8, 2007 – Organizers of Open Source Think Tank 2007: The Future of Commercial Open Source, today announced […]
Flying American
In “Leaving Las Vegas” a man succumbs to massive amounts of alcohol. It was a movie, a rather sad one at that. Recently, I was starring in my own version of “Leaving Buenos Aires”, it also had liquor, it had despair, it had tears and frustrations. Only … a movie it was not! It was […]
Orkan “kyrill” shuts down the trains
Berlin’s main train station closes A two-ton steel girder fell 40 meters to the ground from the façade of Berlin’s new central train station on Thursday night during a severe storm. Although nobody was injured, questions remain about the building’s safety. The powerful storm "Kyrill" didn’t just result in cancelled trains and stranded passengers across […]
A Common Language
I don’t agree that familiarity breeds contempt. For me, familiarity leads to taking things for granted. When such familiarity has been jolted in the past, it has caused me some short-term awkwardness, but in the long term, it enabled me to grow as an individual. I certainly felt this when I moved from England to […]
The Poop on Albany’s Drinking Water
Posted signs at Bowman Park in northeast Albany, Oregon, warn against coming near the water. They have been there since November 24th, 2006, when heavy, seasonal rains led to the release of dilute, raw sewage from the Albany Wastewater Treatment system into the Willamette. Despite recent dry spells, the signs have remained in place. If […]