Archive for June 16th, 2008Virginia might be for lovers, but Newport News, Virginia, is for lovers…of open source. The city has developed an “Open eGov” system that’s based on the Plone content management system.
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Florida CFO Alex Sink/Department of Financial ServicesPosted by: admin in Financial NewsI really like Simon Phipps’ comments about CIOs who eschew open-source software because of a perceived lack of support. The problem is not a lack of support. The problem, as Simon indicates, is a lack of understanding about the quality and availability that open-source vendors provide:
I really like this post over on the 43 Folders blog on “attention management.” I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to reclaim my brain from the Internet vortex, and the easy advice to unplug struck a chord.
I didn’t attend the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this year, but judging by Jeff Whatcott’s commentary, I’m not sure I missed much. It would appear that the Enterprise 2.0 world is still recycling the same froth in an attempt to stand out. Here’s what Whatcott had to say:
Internally, I heard from Jean Barmash on the Alfresco consulting team who echoed Jeff’s comments:
It feels like we’re in the early stages of Enterprise 2.0. Let’s call it Enterprise 1.8 where everyone is showing the right slideware and demos, but few, if any, really know how to put it all to productive business use. Until the money steps in, I think we’re going to remain in a curious limbo where “shiny baubles” (a colleague’s favorite term) get rolled out widely but for which few pay because no one on the enterprise side has really connected the dots between community, user-generated content, and enterprise productivity/business value. |
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