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Whilst everyone loves Open Source, it seems that not everyone is as optimistic about the long-term sustainability of the open source model as a profitable business… Recent reports even go as far as suggesting that previously, leading open source advocates and developers are starting to charge for their software again, as that is the only way of staying afloat.

I collect quotations. One of my favorites is “The right information at the right time is nine tenths of any battle.” That gem is allegedly Napoleon’s. The exact citation I have long since misplaced. I visualize Napoleon making this statement before he heads towards Moscow.

ZDNet published SharePoint: What Are the Risks and Rewards by Larry Dignan on October 13, 2008. This is a very good write up, and you can read the full text here. The core of Mr. Dignan’s article was a Gartner presentation about SharePoint. Mr. Dignan includes a link to that material, so I can’t rehash the details Mr.

One of my two or three readers sent me a link to a Web site with the consultants’ seal of approval stamped on it–the Harvard Business Review. Here’s the link to an article that provides a sneak peek at study findings by two super smart business wizards. The author of the article is Rita McGrath.

I have a long history with Washington, DC. I attended Oxen Hill Maryland’s elementary school. After attending university as a dull normal goose, I worked at the nuclear unit of Halliburton and later at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Then in 2000, I had some work for a little-known Federal agency.

Editorial Reviews Review In this excellent primer on using the Web effectively to develop marketing strategies, Shiffman (marketing and management consultant) offers an introduction to Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 and expands on the role of the Internet as an effective tool for businesses to truly interact with their target audiences.

How To Outline A Marketing Strategy Marketing is essential to the eventual success of your business. Regardless of how amazing your product or service is, your business isn’t going to reach its potential unless it’s in front of your target market.

My publisher Infonortics Ltd. called me Saturday, chiding me for not having the new “Google Publishing” monograph completed. I have been a busy little goose and the new study by Martin White and me took a bit longer than I anticipated. Nevertheless, the Google publishing monograph is moving forward.

One of my two or three readers called PopGist to my attention. You can click here to visit the site. The system takes a query, runs it against the Yahoo index via BOSS (build your own search system), receives the results and performs some useful post processing.

Browsing the Basis Technology Web site revealed an October 7, 2008, news release about a Basis Technology and Mark Logic tie up. You can read the news release here or here. Basis Technology licenses text and content processing components and systems.