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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

• Majority of open source developers eyeing job change

  Majority of 1400 respondents cited improved career path options, mentorship and greater access to training as major reasons behind looking at job options amid the ...

• Open source isn’t working for AI

  What’s the point of open sourcing code that runs at a scale no one can replicate? AI needs collaboration, but let’s think about it differently.

• Open source job security through recessions

  Stay close to free software, either through companies that support open source projects or by contributing directly to project communities.

• Open source software risks persist, according to new reports

  Companies are still struggling to gain confidence in the security of their open source projects, but shifting security earlier in the development process shows promise.

• Microsoft’s complicated dance with open source

  The decision to make the C# extension in Visual Studio Code proprietary is raising hackles, but Microsoft is still a consistent supporter of open source.

• GitHub open sources Entitlements IAM system, built as a Git repository

  The vendor behind one of the most important open source projects in the world is providing a new way to use its framework for IAM ...

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.