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Evaluating Social Software? Don't Underestimate Open Source
Posted 31 Mar 2009 by John EckmanTags: Acquia, Acquisition, Alfresco, Analysis, Application Stategy, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Content Management, Django, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Groundswell, IT Strategy, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Platform, Portal, social media, Social Networking, Solutions, Strategy, Twitter, Vendor Evaluation, WordPress

It's quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. + Read more

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Posted 21 Dec 2008 by Optaros Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Ajax, Alfresco, CIO, Community, Content Management, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, DiSo, Django, Drupal, ECM, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, Europe, iPhone, IT Strategy, Java, JBoss, Liferay, Magento, MySQL, Open, Open Source, Open Source Katalog, OpenID, Portal, RIA, Spring, SpringSource, Sugar CRM, Yahoo!

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the last 12 months.Accelerated Adoption of Open Source + Read more

Assembling Django Applications into Web 2.0 Solutions
Posted 24 Jul 2008 by Sean CreeleyTags: Assembly Methodology, Django

What is Django?Django is a python web framework that in their own words "encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design." It was originally developed developed by The World Company to manage their news properties in Lawrence, Kansas. It was open sourced in 2005 and has been gaining traction ever since. Often compared to Ruby on Rails, it is used in close to 1500 sites as listed on djangosites.org + Read more