Thursday August 25, 2005 Open Source In Action
Interesting news about CD02 using Sun Grid to offer financial analysis as a service here - it's not just Sun then. People are constantly asking about how to make money from open source, yet here's an example and open source isn't even mentioned. The platform - Grid Engine running on Solaris - is an open source platform, so this system validates the open source investments and makes money from it. That money then pays for engineers to contribute more expertise to the respective open source communities, creating more innovation and increasing the opportunity for everyone to succeed more. The virtuous cycle at work again.
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( Aug 25 2005, 10:15:22 AM PDT )
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No favouritism
Speaking of getting into trouble, the rest of Sara's team were worried that maybe I didn't love them as much as Sara because I'd linked to her blog & not to theirs. I of course regard the OpenSolaris marketing team as the epitome of coolness so here are links to Claire, Laura and Patrick (even if none of them have me in their blogroll apart from Claire). As Jim says, they are a most unusual marketing team, pioneering community-based marketing for Sun, and deserve every encouragement.
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( Aug 25 2005, 05:24:13 AM PDT )
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I/O Is Here
I just got off the virtual phone with Richard Giles, who is starting a podcast channel called I/O. He plans to roam the halls at Sun providing some transparency through informal interviews with people doing stuff that's in the news or should be. He asks dangerous questions - I hope the resulting interview doesn't get me into too much trouble when it comes out!
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( Aug 25 2005, 05:19:24 AM PDT )
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