Speaker City

These are my links for October 13th from 03:08 to 16:42:

• 451 CAOS Theory » Big 4 customers not only target for open source - No, they did not manage to hire away one executive from each of the Big Four (close), but Zenoss did land some high-level folks from BMC and CA, as well as other vendors including now-Oracle-owned ClearApp,
• Open Source in the Enterprise | Research Reports | O'Reilly Radar - Using open source in the enterprise—the question is no longer "if," but "how?"
• Infrastructure Management Startups Bring Big-Company Capabilities To SMBs — Network Management Systems - Three newcomers offer specialized, low-cost or no-cost tools to companies with tiny IT budgets.
• Software CEO pondering plea deal in bison killings - The software CEO from Austin accused in the killing of 32 of his Colorado neighbor's bison is considering a plea agreement to settle the case.
• Who needs an open-source strategy? You do | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News - .If times are tough, there are other opportunities…including making acquisitions that cost less….[A]cquisitions that we've been looking at for some time are less expensive for us.
• Labs/Ubiquity/Commands In The Wild - MozillaWiki - Pioneering can be crazy fun, but also a bit dangerous. The commands referenced here have not been reviewed by Mozilla.
• With 'Ubiquity,' Mozilla chooses functionality over security | Surveillance State - CNET News - The end result is that the hundreds of thousands of users of Ubiquity face a significant risk of browser hijacking by attackers, which could result in the theft of e-mail and online banking account information.