Links for September 2nd through September 6th

• Mark Hurd Joins Oracle as Co-President
  Well, that's kind of a fun bucket.
• Food on the Table
• The State of Open Source System Automation | Linux Magazine
  Pretty good, quick yet technical overview of Puppet, Chef, Cfengine, and Bcfg2.
• Assistly | Help Desk Software, Customer Service Software and Customer Support
• Burning question: Time to split IT?
  "I think it is time to move the CIO and a few of IT staff which is business process, architecture and innovation focused to report to the CEO (or the COO), and move the infrastructure, procurement/legal, security and compliance and standards part under the corporate controller (or the CFO)."

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