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Open Source Matures as a Viable Business

By adrian | Published: December 29, 2009
Acquia, the commercial open source company founded by Drupal creator, Dries Buytaert, recently released a white paper, TCO for Open Source Social Publishing, that looks at the “total cost of ownership” for open source social publishing. Reading through the paper, I can’t help but think about how much open source has matured as a viable [...]
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The Dream Year Lottery

By adrian | Published: November 4, 2009
On my way walking to the U2 concert last week, I noticed a few people along the way asking for spare change. I didn’t think much of it until a little later in the night. Standing inside BC Place, full with 60,000 people, the thought just dawned on me: This is a lot of people. [...]
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