{"id":1028,"date":"2007-10-12T17:44:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/10\/12\/innotech-austin-07\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T17:44:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T23:44:02","slug":"innotech-austin-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/10\/12\/innotech-austin-07\/","title":{"rendered":"InnoTech Austin '07"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"InnoTech<\/a><\/p>\n

Yesterday I was at the InnoTech conference in Austin. It was a nice time, and there were several fun folks — several pictures above, thanks to John Willis<\/a> — to hang out with.<\/p>\n

I was on a panel on the topic of Navigating the Open Source Community<\/a> in which fellow panelists and I answered the question “how do I jump into this open source world and start using it?” At least, that’s the take away I had.<\/p>\n

There’s an interesting trend in open source conversations now-a-days, which came up during the panel many times: open source software isn’t really that different than closed source software. Sure, there’s some operational differences — which we’ll actually highlight in an upcoming RedMonk paper — but from a user’s perspective so much of the discussion now-a-days revolves around saying “open source doesn’t mean free.”<\/p>\n

\n\"Luke<\/a><\/p>\n

I got to spend quite a lot of time talking with Luke Kanies<\/a> of Puppet<\/a> fame, which was nice. Next week I should have the video interview I did with him on the topic of Puppet and making a business out of an open source project.<\/p>\n

Also, John Willis and Mark Hinkle<\/a> were nice enough to spend some time on camera on the topic of IT management, Eclipse, and customization. Mark jimmied in an update on Zenoss at request as well.<\/p>\n

On the way out, I ran into Spiceworks<\/a>‘ Jay Hallberg who was carring a newly won award for best demo at the Beta Summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, thanks to InnoTech for the conference, and whurley<\/a> for the invite to his panel.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer:<\/b> Zenoss<\/a> and Spiceworks are clients, as is whurley’s employer, BMC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: innotech07<\/a>, innotech<\/a>, austin<\/a>, puppet<\/a>, zenoss<\/a>, bmc<\/a>, spiceworks<\/a><\/p>\n

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Short write-up of InnoTech ’07.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-systems-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}