Open Source and Open Innovation with whurley

Next week I’m leading the “Open Source, the Web, Interoperability, and Microsoft” panel at Mix07 in Vegas, my first Microsoft conference. Naturally, I’ve been pondering the topic so I don’t end up on stage with my pants around my ankles. The more I think about it, the more I think Microsoft loves open source—and not [...]

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Dana Blankenhorn has a post on ZDNet entitled “Open source battles the mooch-o-meter“. In the post he discusses a Gartner report which describes a growing chorus of grumbles concerning the “big four” of IT management — HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter and BMC Patrol. All of which brings me back to William Hurley (right), late

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