Gordon shows us some interesting, and even sexy, things HP is doing in the server/sysmgmt area. Can't beat an color LCD screen, friends.

The role of marketing in open source, much needed.

"I have learned is that engineers who work on commercial software really can't work on open source on GPL and engineers who work on GPL can't work on commercial software. You really have to separate the two."

PHP in/with WebSphere...but what does it mean? Must ask for more info.

It's like I've been telling you, dear readers: the more information you share publicly, the better off your life will be. There are boundries, but not many. Meta-data publishing -- e.g., last.fm -- is a must at the very least.

Some features in Visual Studio Team Foundations Server.

Check it out: the MSFT open source lab documents how to hook up SQL Server to JBoss. More documents like this would be more than helpful for interop and intergrating with the rest of the world.