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13 More IT Cost Cutting Ideas

July 27, 2010
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It’s always interesting to me which blog topics generate interest. Two weeks ago, I asked the #CIO Twitter community to offer their ideas for IT cost cutting and the summary was one of the more active posts lately, especially on LinkedIn groups like the Forbes CIO Network. I have summarized the comments below. Thanks to Robert Marchant, Jerry Rosenbaum, Puneet Dhawan, Reuben Thomas, Krishna Pulipati, Curtis Todd and Roger Jennings for their thoughtful comments…...

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Open Source Alternatives for Industry Applications

June 28, 2010
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Recent conversations with insurance, biotech and hospitality companies highlight growing interest in open source models for industry vertical apps.  These firms are considering opening up and sharing parts of their core business applications, not just infrastructure or common enterprise systems like HR or financials.  While none of these examples are straight-forward open source where all of the code will be freely accessible and the code development is crowdsourced, they liberally borrow from the ideas of ...

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Is the Open Source Conversation Dead?

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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