Tim Harvey is at the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco this week.  He sent me this note from OSBC to share with our community:

 Open Source at the Tipping Point?

This is my 2nd year attending the Open Source Business Conference. While much of what I heard last year

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I attended EclipseCon 2008 this week in Santa Clara, CA.  Wednesday's keynote speaker was Sam Ramji from Microsoft, talking about Microsoft's growing participation in Open Source initiatives. He began by confirming rumors that a new initiative, "Supernova", would have Microsoft purchasing the Eclipse organization, and acquiring all intellectual property of Eclipse. A couple

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I attended various different tracks today with a variety of topics including standards, mashups and specific toolkits.

There are a dizzying array of tools and toolkits for implementing AJAX applications with one estimate of over 200 separate and often overlapping toolkits, many of which are open source.  These include full frameworks, gadgets, widgets and server & client side i

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Until April 6, 2008 a discussion is occurring at this page:

http://disposablewebpage.com/turn?page=Et1s0SIZEw initiated by this guy and his project:

http://devel2.njit.edu/serendipity/index.php?/archives/544

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Some weeks ago, I posted a question on the Eclipse Technical Writer Yahoo group asking whether writers were open-sourcing their content along with the open source Eclipse plug-ins they support and how did they do that exactly? I limited the discussion (upon reminder, thanks!) to open source Eclipse plug-ins as this was the group I was specifically querying. You can review the discussion here:

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The second day (Wed) at AJAX World East 2008, had several interesting presentations, with more focus on actal AJAX usage and techniques.

The keynote by Douglas Crockfor

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Tuesday was the initial half-day session of speakers, with the keynote, welcome meetings, exhibitors and real kick-off Wed morning. Tuesday's sessions were overcrowded – I don’t think they anticipated that many general attendance folks today as some were in a special AJAX security botcmap (and should have

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I have spoken with some IT industry analysts recently on the question:  "Will a recession be good for open source?"  I think that orgainzations and IT managers will turn to the favorable economics of open source to get things done when budgets are tight; so yes, recession may be good for open source adoption.  

On a similar theme, will recession be good or bad fo

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MySQL will be hosting a webinar today featuring XAware's founder and Chief Architect Kirstan Vandersluis.  To participate or view the replay visit: 

http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/display-107.html

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Service development is about to explode in the enterprise, but these are not the custom-crafted, high value, reusable services you might see cruising the pristine avenue of your company’s SOA center of excellence. No, this will be massive. Instead of nicely architected brownstones with clean lines and aesthetic appeal, you’ll brush with small, hastily constructed, one-off services as

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