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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

• Why the Open Source Security Foundation was a long time coming

  The open source process by which we find and fix bugs is also the right way to tackle software security. The OpenSSF offers us a ...

• Stargate: A new way to think about databases

  An open source API framework for data, Stargate promises to allow developers to work with back-end data in any shape they want

• Opportunity for partners as customers still can’t find enough open source skills

  Pandemic has accelerated demand for IT professionals with open source skills, and organisations are searching far and wide or retraining staff to fill the gap ...

• Are you sure you want to open source that project?

  Take it from Lyft engineer and Envoy project lead Matt Klein. Unless you get more effort from outside than what you put in, open sourcing ...

• Microsoft Blazor gains Infragistic UI toolkit support

  Ignite UI for Blazor combines a data grid with interactive charts, graphs, maps, and other web UI components

• Meet open source community SONiC, the 'Linux of networking'

  Open source SONiC network operating system has the potential to become 'the Linux of networking,' experts say

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.