http://www.thinkcondi.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:54:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As for how much money is in open source, the answer is "More." The census indicates full-time salaries for open source workers peak at around A$76,000 to A$100,000 (US$68,758 to US$90,471) and for women salaries peaked from between A$46,000 to A$60,000. Still, it was significant to see that more than 5 percent ... http://www.thinkcondi.com/2010/09/04/census-finds-that-open-source-it-professionals-mak/ Overall, this seems to be a simple and interesting NAS device with a very appealing price tag. It's available for purchase now unless, but you might want to wait and check CNET.com for our review, which is coming soon. No, I am not talking about something that's for or from an ... http://www.thinkcondi.com/2010/08/30/a-blackbox-for-data-that-wont-break-the-bank/ We'd welcome you at Alfresco, where most of our solutions engineers are ex-Vignette. But you'd be equally valuable to Acquia, Magnolia, and other open-source content management projects and companies. There is life after proprietary software, a life rich in customers and rich for customers. To all my Vignette friends: The grass ... http://www.thinkcondi.com/2010/08/24/to-all-vignette-employees-the-open-source-grass-i/ Jerry's looks small on the outside... (Credit: Paul DiComo) I keep hearing about how the LP is having a comeback, and that's great, but Jerry's Records has been keeping the faith for more than thirty-three years selling used vinyl in Pittsburgh, PA. I spoke with Jerry (Weber) himself last week to learn ... http://www.thinkcondi.com/2010/08/21/pittsburghs-3-a-pop-vinyl-treasure-trove/ commentary The Cheshire Cat Linus Torvalds used to talk about "world domination" as his goal for Linux. These days, though, while we seem to be making progress toward this end, we also appear to be increasingly complacent. We downplay the ideology that underlies open source in favor of "safe" rhetoric about ... http://www.thinkcondi.com/2010/08/21/open-source-world-domination-or-world-liberation/ Updated at 7:40 a.m. PT with Schmidt's news conference comments. ORLANDO, Fla.--Search giant Google launched Google Health and announced major industry partners on Thursday, aiming to be the Intuit for personal health care, where people can access all their health information in one spot. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt answers ... http://www.thinkcondi.com/2010/08/21/schmidt-google-health-targets-the-most-important/ At the Web 2.0 Expo, I was pushed hard to cover the new Web-based mind-mapping tool, Spinscape. The pitch I got was half demo, half introduction to the topic. I'm a big fan of outliner applications (I miss Grandview and Ecco) but the free-form mind mappers never appealed to ... http://www.thinkcondi.com/2010/08/21/map-your-mind-20/ Last week we told you that the highly-anticipated Samsung Instinct would goes on sale on Friday, June 20. Though the exact price of the Instinct is still unknown--Sprint is promising that it will cost less than $300--today the carrier announced that the slick touch-screen phone will require a $70 per ... http://www.thinkcondi.com/2010/08/21/samsung-instinct-to-require-70-service-plan/ (Credit: Proximic) Content-delivery network Proximic, which has a unique contextual matching system, now has ads to sell that can help bloggers and others monetize their sites. The company was set to announce on Wednesday that it has signed deals to syndicate the product catalogs of the Yahoo Shopping Network and eBay's ... http://www.thinkcondi.com/2010/08/21/proximic-signs-ad-deals-with-yahoo-shopping-shopp/ Add Canonical to the roster of companies offering technology to help enterprise customers build their own cloud-computing setups. But unlike most of the better-known players in this nascent market, the twist here is that the technology will be supplied by an open-source shop. Canonical is best known as being ... http://www.thinkcondi.com/2010/08/21/ubuntu-planning-move-to-the-cloud/