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  IN PICTURES: Squiz annual user conference (+15 photos)

  Australian-founded global technology and strategy business​, Squiz, recently held its annual user conference, Squiz Summit, at Docklands, Melbourne. Bringing digital and marketing professionals together from across Australia, the summit offered insights into what the future holds for the digital age, marketing technology, and how marketers can maximise their digital presence, customer experience and output. Squiz’s clients, including LexisNexis, NSW Department of Industry, and IOOF, and partners Marketo and SugarCRM, delivered talks on the theme “Do more with digital.”

  IN PICTURES: Squiz annual user conference (+15 photos)
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  In Pictures: Best open source monitoring tools

  We found all four products to be capable network monitoring tools that performed well in our basic tasks such as checking for host availability and measuring bandwidth usage. Beyond the basics, there were quite a few differences in terms of features, granularity and configuration options.

  In Pictures: Best open source monitoring tools
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  In Pictures: 10 reasons why open source is eating the world

  Open source software, once just the domain of technology hobbyists, is taking over the software world

  In Pictures: 10 reasons why open source is eating the world
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  In Pictures: The 'Bad Boys' of open source

  The open source world's most notorious characters.

  In Pictures: The 'Bad Boys' of open source
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  In Pictures: 12 open source tools every Windows admin will love

  We mined Microsoft’s open source hosting repository to unearth 12 invaluable Windows admin tools -- and they're all free

  In Pictures: 12 open source tools every Windows admin will love
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  In Pictures: 13 hot new open source projects

  Browser-based toolkits, add-ons to old favorites, tools programmers will love -- here are the most promising projects emerging from the open source community today

  In Pictures: 13 hot new open source projects

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News about open source

• Open source security fought back in 2022

  One year after the Log4j disaster, open source community efforts and new developer toolchains are addressing the challenges of software supply chain security.

• What open source gets wrong with Mastodon

  The open source alternative to Twitter is forgetting the customer experience in its rush to make a political statement about decentralisation.

• 13 open source projects transforming AI and machine learning

  From deepfakes to natural language processing and more, the open source world is ripe with projects to support software development on the frontiers of artificial ...

• When openness doesn’t matter

  We can argue about the choices tech companies should or shouldn’t make, but at the end of the day, we keep buying what they’re selling.

• OpenSSF releases npm best practices to help developers tackle open source dependency risks

  The npm Best Practices Guide aims to help JavaScript and TypeScript developers reduce the security risks of using open source dependencies.

• 8 open source projects taking collaboration to the next level

  Today's workplace is all about collaboration, and as more teams go remote, the need for innovative tools is stronger than ever. Here are eight open ...

Interviews about open source

• Why open source needs more cloud

  There isn’t one model for doing open source right, but generally the path to success will involve growing the overall market - even at the ...

• The channel in 2019, according to Puppet

  Vendor believes 2019 will be the year that DevOps and automation go mainstream

• EMC World 2015: Free downloads for Software-Defined Storage product as EMC creates Open Source project

  “For anyone left confused, these announcements prove this is not your father’s EMC."

• OpenDaylight Executive Director spells out where this open source SDN efforts stands

  Neela Jacques explains where the standards stand

• The future of networking is a NOS on your choice of bare metal, says Cumulus Networks

  If Cumulus Networks has its way, companies will use its Cumulus Linux to decouple the network operating system from the hardware

• UEFI president: We need more key providers

  UEFI Forum chief Mark Doran explains how UEFI works and addresses the criticisms around Microsoft's use of UEFI Secure Boot

Features about open source

• Big names like Google dominate open-source funding

  Network World's analysis of publicly listed sponsors of 36 prominent open-source non-profits and foundations reveals that the lion's share of financial support for open-source groups ...

• Debunking the top open source myths

  Many IT executives choose open source over proprietary software, but some remain skeptical.

• Clueless CIOs aside, open source is 'frightening and fantastic'

  Savvy enterprises tap open source as a legacy-refresh strategy

• Career Watch: The rise of people architecture

• Hiring managers advise job seekers to contribute to open-source projects

  Joining an open-source community isn't required to land a development job, but it could help

• 4 reasons companies say yes to open source

  Open source isn't just about saving money -- enterprises are adopting it to develop applications faster, with higher quality components.