Thursday, January 03, 2008

InfoWorld Daily: Open source: a conservative force?

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Thursday, Jan 03, 2008
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Table Of Contents:


* Open source: a conservative force?
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* IT pay: The best and worst of times

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OPEN SOURCE: A CONSERVATIVE FORCE?

Open source: Is open source automatically the best path to creativity
and innovation? Savio Rodrigues takes exception with a recent article in
Discover Magazine that concludes "that claim is not borne out by the
facts. ... Even though the open-source movement has a stinging
countercultural rhetoric, it has in practice been a conservative force."
In his Open Sources blog Rodrigues writes "the conclusion is not that
OSS projects don't innovate. Rather, that projects that are truly
innovative are developed by vendors whose ...
More of this blog at:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/01/open_source_a_c.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-01-03

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INFOWORLD DAILY PODCAST

Asus unveils a terabyte laptop, the U.S. government extends its review
of the acquisition of 3Com, IBM buys an Israeli storage startup, the
latest version of RealPlayer contains a critical flaw, and more LISTEN!

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More of this blog at:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/01/infoworld_daily_486.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-01-03

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IT PAY: THE BEST AND WORST OF TIMES

Careers: As Jason Snyder found when preparing InfoWorld's 2007
Compensation Survey, "Working in IT today is a tale of two trends: the
best of times, as pay climbs precipitously; and the worst of times, as
morale suffers due to declining staff and longer hours." Overall IT
compensation surged 8.8 percent this year, nearly doubling last year's
moderate gains. "Yet personal gains have not slowed the downward slide
of morale in most organizations... as the erosion of perceived respect
for the value of ...
More of this blog at:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/01/it_compensation.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-01-03

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BEA AND MICROSOFT: BRINGING COMPANIES TOGETHER

By partnering with Microsoft and integrating with Microsoft
applications, BEA customers can leverage their investments to create
the best-of-breed, open- application environment, that is shaped by
their business needs and not by technical limitations. Download this
white paper now, compliments of BEA.

http://www.accelacomm.com/jlp/newsletter/13/80275132/

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