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CA, IBM First to Demonstrate CMDB Federation, Interoperability - CA "The use of open source software from the Eclipse COSMOS project helped CA and IBM accelerate implementation of the CMDBf specification. In turn, the two companies plan to contribute code from the interoperability demonstration to the COSMOS project as reference code."
Adventures in Open Source » Blog Archive » Your Head Asplode "We were managing about 1500 devices, which is pretty average for our commercial clients, and at US$30K for an Enterprise Greenlight (2 weeks on-site and a year of Enterprise support) they found it extremely affordable. The server should be able to support at least 100% growth over the next year or so, and due to the automated nature of OpenNMS discovery it should require very few changes to the configuration."
'Free lunch' and open-source support | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News "This is a myopic way to do business, as the large SI in my initial example found: in that example, spending $50,000 (in the midst of a $50 million project) would have saved the SI the embarrassment and cost of trying to support a product that experience proved it didn't know nearly as well as it thought it did. The SI risked the success of a $50 million project to boost its margins by $50,000, only to find that one problem with the software ended up costing it and the client far more than $50,000."
Mozilla Taps Web Guru Duo for Developer Tools Lab Almaer and Galbraith said they were not ready to deliver a road map of what they plan to deliver and when, "but we plan to attack a few interesting bottlenecks that hinder open Web productivity," Galbraith said. "One thing we plan to do is provide simple reference materials so developers can get a browser to do what it's supposed to do according to documented APIs. And we'll help with things like providing assistance for participating in open-source projects—just in terms of how to do it."
Galbraith said they also plan to look at traditional pain points in Web development such as layout and debugging support, including possibly delivering lower-level debugging tools. And although nothing has yet been established, it is possible that the Mozilla Firebug team could eventually become part of the new Mozilla tools group.
Gartner: Financial meltdown may mean hiring freezes It's getting cheery down there in Orlando: "'The next big thing in IT is not a technology — it is cost reduction, risk management and compliance,' said Peter Sondergaard, Gartner's global head of research." What say you old-timers?
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