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• Zenoss Update with Bill Karpovich at OpenSourceWorld

  August 20, 2009 at 7:47 am / Video

  While at OpenSourceWorld, I talked with Zenoss' Bill Karpovich, getting an update on what's been going on with Zenoss. We talk about recent versions, management packs (with over a 100 now), the community, and reaching the million downloads milestone. Disclosure: Zenoss is a client. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MP3 Audio (.mp3) Tags: itmanagementguys, zenoss, osw, opensourceworld, itmanagement, opensource

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• Reductive Labs update with Luke Kanies at OpenSourceWorld

  August 19, 2009 at 10:50 am / Video

  While at OpenSourceWorld, I pulled aside Reductive Lab's Luke Kanies to get an update on what's been going on in the Puppet world, esp. after the (very) recent funding Reductive Labs got. In the brief interview, we touch on the new staff and the product road-map. Disclosure: Reductive Labs is a client. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MP3 Audio (.mp3), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv), MP3 Audio (.mp3), MP3 Audio (.mp3), MP3 Audio (.mp3) Tags: itmanagementguys, itmanagement, puppet, osw, opensourceworld

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• Open Source on Windows, Community Management – John Mark Walker at OpenSourceWorld

  August 18, 2009 at 12:50 pm / Video

  While at OpenSourceWorld last week, I snagged a jiggly-framed updated with John Mark Walker. We talk about the upcoming open source on Windows conference he's planning and (him having been in many community management roles) the state of community management. The book I mention is Dawn Foster's Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy Disclosure: Microsoft is a client, as was Hyperic. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MP3 Audio (.mp3), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: opensource, osw, opensourceworld, communitymanagement, [...]

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• OpenNMS Update from Tarus Balog – OpenSourceWorld

  August 13, 2009 at 11:32 am / Video

  I managed to button-hole Tarus Balog of the OpenNMS Group. In this short shaky-cam interview, I ask him to give us a quick update on OpenNMS. He talks primarily about the new "provisioning" system that cleans up the way inventory and cataloging of discovered devices is put together in stored, a "CMDB in a file" as I joke. We also talk about Honduran cellphone monitoring. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MP3 Audio (.mp3), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: opensourceworld, [...]

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• Using web technolgies for RIAs – Appcelerator – RIA Weekly #58

  August 7, 2009 at 3:51 pm / Video

  While in Mountain View a little bit ago, I had the chance to catch up with Appcelerator‘s Jeff Haynie. While Jeff has been on RIA Weekly before, I start out by asking him to go over what Appecelerator does. As he susinctly puts it, their offerings focusing on providing a framework and runtime to develop applications for mobile, web, and desktop apps using web technologies (like JavaScript, CSS, HTML, you know, Ajax). We then get into a discussion of how [...]

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