The OSCON Executive Briefing is now over for 2006. Last year was the first time that OSCON had a business oriented track, and this year is the first time it was a seperate day long event. (And the first time Matt Asay helped organize it.) I’ve covered my favorite sessions in gory [...]

We had a brief technical glitch earlier today which has now been resolved. I’m catching up on the last few sessions now.
The last session before lunch was between David Skok of Matrix Partners, Michael Tiemann of Red Hat, and Paul Weinstein of MySQL (sitting in for Marten Mickos), moderated by Tim O’Reilly and Matt [...]

After five-years of being around open source projects with hundreds of thousands of users, joining the JasperSoft community, with downloads well over one-million, gave me pause. Especially now, as the team puts the finishing touches on what will become JasperForge.org 1.0, I stop to think about what our singular focus on “Business Intelligence for Everyone” [...]