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Filed under Sean Campbell

Interviewers:
Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Josh Berkus


In this interview with Josh, PostgreSQL Core Team Lead at Sun Microsystems Inc., we asked him about:

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Comments (0) Posted by campsean on Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Filed under Sean Campbell

Interviewers: Scott Swigart, and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: John McCreesh - Open Office

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John McCreesh

In this interview with John who is the Marketing Program Lead for Open Office we asked him about:

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Comments (6) Posted by campsean on Sunday, August 5th, 2007

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Our visit to OSCON last week exposed the rift between Web 2.0 (a.k.a Software as a Service) and open source. There’s an excellent roundup here. It’s short reading and hits the high points well.

Effectively, Web 2.0 lets you reap all the benefits of free and open source software (FOSS), without advancing FOSS. Smart people currently sit on both sides of the issue, but for the foreseeable future, the “SaaS loophole” will remain.

Comments (1) Posted by scottswigart on Thursday, August 2nd, 2007