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Great news. "Open Source Is the Big Disruptor" - eWeek

"Open-source software is going to erode proprietary sales revenue by offering less-expensive or free alternatives, expanding the total market potential by meeting the demands of SMBs (small medium businesses) for affordable solutions, and creating a new business model for established and emerging service providers to provide selection, customization and management services for open-source solutions,"

Enterprise Mashups Hurtle Toward Mainstream, eweek

"Many companies looking to cull data from multiple sources to help their employees do their jobs better are seeking mashups as an answer, said Anthony Bradley, a Gartner analyst, Sept. 21 at the Gartner Web Innovation Summit 2007 here.

One of the most thoughtful bloggers, Dave Pollard, on knowledge managemt (km) and adaptive learning has an interesting post. Here's an abbreviated version but do check out his full post. FWIW Dave's blog is loaded with great stuff on KM, so don't stop with he latest post.

Portals, knowledge management, content management, idea management, enterprise blogging, bookmarks, tagging, del.icio.us, yak, yak, yak. Anyway, I found a blog site, "Portals and KM" that has a list of knowledge management sites if anyone is interested. Bill Ives, the owner of the site is also publishing a book "Business Blogs: A Practical Guide"  that can be ordered via email - no e-comm. I have not read the book.

This matters. In CMO Magazine, Fred Hapgood, offers up a well-rounded artical, Blog to the Future. Nice that we are starting to see more uses and applications for blogs other than PR and marketing.

"Another is to encourage a wide range of employees to start blogs. Sun Microsystems has taken that road, and so far close to a thousand employees have accepted the company's invitation. One group of these blogs is tied directly to existing Sun products, such as Solaris or Java."