From “View Source” to Open Source

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If I may be so bold as to self-promote for a moment, an article I wrote appeared this month in AjaxWorld Magazine:  “From ‘View Source’ to Open Source.”

The basic point of the article is that the increasing leverage of formal, explicitly licensed Ajax libraries and frameworks represents a fundamental evolution from the old “view source and copy” culture in which I first learned JavaScript development.

Thanks to the sys-con folks for publishing it – hopefully we’ll see a whole series of articles over the next few months.

Next Generation E-Commerce

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Excellent article by Simeon Simeonov at Web 2.0 journal on the relatively quiet revolution going on in e-commerce.

“E-Commerce 2.0” – The Velvet Revolution — With all the noise the Web 2.0 revolutionaries are making, it’s easy to ignore another – this time velvet – revolution: ‘E-commerce 2.0’ is coming into maturity and getting ready to relieve its now ten-plus year old predecessor. It’s about time.

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RSS For the Enterprise, Free (as in beer)

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The folks at Attensa have released Attensa for Outlook 2.0 for free (as in no cost). Go here to download – you will have to provide an email address.
Requirements:

  • Windows 2000 (most recent service pack)
  • Outlook 2000 (most recent service pack)
  • 667 Mhz CPU
  • 20Mb free disk space
  • 256 Mb RAM
  • Windows Media Player 9 or above

I think getting RSS readers in the hands of enterprise users (many of whom are using Outlook on Windows) is going to be critical to mass adoption, so it’s good to see this move, even if it is only free in the cost sense, not in the open source sense.

Gartner Open Source Summit

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Gartner Open Source Summit

Theme: Understanding the True Costs, Optimizing the Rewards

Begins: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 at 11:00 AM

Ends: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 at 12:15 PM

Location:

JW Marriott Desert Ridge Hotel

Phoenix, AZ

United States

Registration fee: US $1595

Last date for registration: Fri, 22 Sep 2006

Last date for paper submission: Fri, 22 Sep 2006

Link: Gartner Open Source Summit


Next week I will be at the Gartner Open Source Summit in Phoenix. Looking forward to their predictions about the size of the Open Source IT Services market, and Optaros’ place within it.

Optaros is a sponsor and will have a booth – stop by and say hello!.

“By 2010, most IT organizations will have formal Open Source management and acquisition strategies” Mark Driver, Open Source Summit Chair. Will you be ready?

As this new software model merges into more everyday applications, the second Gartner Open Source Summit is an opportunity to fully explore the challenges of adopting it – as well as a chance to meet the vendors at the forefront of the movement.

Open source is, and will continue to be, at the head of a sea-change in the world of information technology. With some 50% of IT personnel calling themselves “beginners” when it comes to open source, the Summit offers a rare chance to go from “zero to 60” in critical Open Source IT know-how. Attend the Summit and position yourself as a leader as you examine how to deliver the benefits of Open Source technology to your organization.