May 20, 2009
The MIT Industrial Liaison Program holds an annual conference for its sponsors focused on technology and telecommunications. This year’s event had excellent breadth, featuring Esther Dyson, the CTO of Blue State Digital (developers of Obama’s online social media platform), the director of MIT’s game development lab in Singapore and several others. The one presentation that really got me thinking was by the IT Energy Coordinator for MIT’s own infrastructure, Laxmi Rao. Her presentation centered on ...
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May 15, 2009
One of my partners was asked by the Chief Information Officer of a major financial services organization for some help thinking through his open source strategy. Honestly, the open source conversation has not come up much lately. Is open source in the enterprise a dead issue? Have companies already tapped into the open source apps and tools and exhausted the options? Or, maybe consideration of open source software is fully integrated into companies’ software selection ...
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