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Five Potential Trends At Red Hat Summit

06/06/2008  I
Relevance: 8.66
When The Red Hat Summit kicks off June 18 in Boston, The VAR Guy will be watching the event for five key trends. Here's what our resident blogger expects to see -- and hear --at the conference.
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Five Trends at Southern California Linux Expo

02/09/2008  III
Relevance: 7.76
The VAR Guy is skipping Disneyland this weekend and keeping a close eye on the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), which runs February 8-10 at the Westin Los Angeles.Here are five trends and themes The VAR Guy will be tracking at the event.
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LinuxWorld Expo Preview: Four Canonical and Ubuntu Trends

07/29/2008  I
Relevance: 7.18
When LinuxWorld Expo kicks off August 4 in San Francisco, The VAR Guy will be tracking four key trends related to Canonical and Ubuntu Linux.Here's a look.
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Open Source Meets Unified Communications at VoiceCon

03/12/2008  IIII
Relevance: 6.73
VoiceCon kicks off March 17 in Orlando. Here are seven unified communication trends that will emerge at the show, The VAR Guy predicts. (HInt:Asterisk could be the surprise hit of the event.)
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Competing Trends are Creating an Opening for Linux

11/29/2007  II
Relevance: 6.69
Recent hardware trends are creating an opening for Linux to become a serious competitor to Microsoft Windows. Linux is better suited for cheap, highly portable machines than the bloated and expensive Windows Vista.
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Track your investments with Grism

08/30/2008  I
Relevance: 6.55
My dad has been pestering me for some time to find him an open source tool that he could use to follow the market trends. He's been thinking about investing a little something in the market, but not without due diligence. Grism, written in Ruby, is the tool my dad now uses to easily follow the changing market trends. It allows you to create watchlists and portfolios and offers charts to help you gauge the performance of particular stocks.
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Open Source Trends

04/04/2007  II
Relevance: 6.36
I recently returned from a whirlwind trip to Singapore and China. In China, I spoke at the 2007 Software Innovation Summit - Open Source Software and Trends in Internationalization event organized by Stephen Walli and Anne Stevenson-Yang. Stephen blogged about the event and has posted the slides from the talks.
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Open Source Macro vs. Micro

09/12/2007  II
Relevance: 6.18
When I've written about the inevitable march of Open Source, there are a couple of things I've failed to note, or that I just got wrong. Where I got it wrong was in equating open technology and the trends in that direction with Open Source, as defined by the OSI. Sure, the downward price pressure in software makes the current open source ecosystem viable, but that's not nearly the same as saying that trends towards openness will necessarily result in an Open Source end. The truth is, there is a wide range of points on the open spectrum.
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Cathedral vs. Bazaar in HIT-OSS

12/20/2007  I
Relevance: 4.54
Observation of the trends in many HIT OSS projects leads me to believe that our niche in the OSS world prefers the Cathedral model (Eric S. Raymond's definition) rather than the Baazar model.
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Netbooks: Linux, Windows… or Something Else?

10/18/2008  I
Relevance: 4.45
By now you have probably heard about these newfangled netbooks, products like the ASUS EeePC and Dell Inspiron Mini 9. I've suggested that the biggest growth potential for these devices would come from emerging markets. But after a closer look, I've seen some trends that most likely will cause greater demand in the U.S. and Europe as well.
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