Open Source Business

A unique closed-source network monitoring product called Splunk is helping the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) further its mission to “accelerate the adoption of open source software across the globe.”

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X.org founder Leon Shiman headed up Government Day at LinuxWorld. The subconference, sponsored by Novell, Red Hat, Trusted Computer Solutions, and Microsoft, was directed at a by-invitation-only group of government movers and shakers, and designed to provide a forum to discuss issues surrounding the adoption of open source and open standards in government, including the problem of vendor lock-in. We were the only press allowed into the event. Read more at Newsforge.com.

Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), the largest not-for-profit healthcare provider in California, needed to consolidate its IT systems and bring greater efficiency and consistency to the infrastructure. CHW decided the best way to do that was to move away from proprietary solutions and toward open source.

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