20090701 Advice on Mixing Free Software and Foggy Computing
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Open source for our company is also really huge. We release all the source code that we have to the general public and the communities we work in. We make a concerted effort to do that. All of what we use is open source. We’re a completely Ruby-on-Rails engineering team. The bigger idea of sharing and collaborating, we push that hard. It’s a distinct quality: are you willing to money into investing money and people’s salaries into something that might not make you money right away?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=20420 When is Open Source not Enough?
Because of the fast evolution of Continuous Integration (CI), the first generation of enablement tools proliferated at lightning speed. Open source CI tools became widely used due to the ease in which an engineer could install it and start tackling the initial CI challenges that he faced. Once proven effective, these apps (particularly Cruise Control) spread like wildfire among other build engineers, and in most cases, development shops began ‘sewing' several instances together.
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