Half the department I work for has a rich history when it comes to using OpenSource; we have nearly 1k hosts running Redhat (Fedora Core, CentOS, Debian). The other half of the company (the boring bearded mainframe people) cought the message later. They are"blue" so they are Novell lusers. "Aaaah, look at this nice YAST interface (with is non scriptable!)" Needless to say, this doesnt make Novell more popular with me, they have been bussy selling and implementing Suse on mainframes for year, and still i is no working. My advice: for community services, go with the mass, for niche market, go with your customer. Linux hosting is a commodity and not that many people have a mainframe at home...

However, I do think Novell is spoton when it comes to Xen and Redhat is missing the point.

Novell CTO defends 'unstable' Xen claims

"If you look at the Xen open source project, we have been the number two contributor during the past 10 months or so to that project. So we've kind of contributed most of the enterprise readiness for the Xen platform," Rex said.

Op Open Source Summer Camp in Mediaplaza zal ik een presentatie geven over "Locked in Open Source". De doelgroep richt zich op de Publieke sector. Inschrijving is gratis, dus de kans om contact te maken of te houden met Open Source.

Op 16 & 17 augustus organiseert Media Plaza op initiatief van het Ministerie van Economische Zaken en in samenwerking met de NLLGG en de NLUUG (Linux en Unix gebruikersgroepen), OSOSS, Holland Open, Stichting Livre en Source 21 een Open Source Summer Camp.

GNOME (a rather good open source desktop manager which is far better than KDE IMHO) is considering changing the CMS for their site. They have their requirements online

This is a list of categorized requirements for the CMS system that will serve www.gnome.org. If you recommend a CMS check this list against its features.

They are currently evoluating
Midgard , eZ publish, Plone and ... Drupal. The page with Drupal's specs isnt correct on some things, so feel free to give them some feedback after reading this page.

Anyone up to mixing DruplIcon in the GNOME logo? :-)

Yet Another Drupal Site: Nuxified.org relaunches using Drupal

We have started this site with phpbb, then moved to phpbb plus and while still experiencing certain limitations of the phpbb platform in regards to what we want to acomplish we have finally, and through an open process, decided to switch to Drupal (which has just recently had its new major 4.7 release) and merge with our sister site that was available at Nuxified.com to form the new Nuxified.org that you can see evolving now.
The reasons behind the switch are mainly the extensibility of the Drupal platform which translates to the ability to expand into any direction which we would choose with our users community at any time. While phpbb was mainly good for forums it was hard to reliably and cleanly extend it to fully support much more than that. With drupal extensibility is natural and nearly anything is possible. Drupal forums cleanly and fully integrate into the rest of the system, and vice versa. Drupal also makes us different from the rest of the usual Free Software and GNU/Linux support forums crowd, which mostly uses vBulletin or phpbb. This differentiation may prove to be a good thing, providing for a new and refreshing experience.