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  1. OSA/OW2 merger plan has received wall-to-wall coverage at Open World Forum in Paris. A few writers jumping to conclusions, but not too bad.
  2. OSA merging with OW2. Announcement out today -- www.opensolutionsalliance.com
  3. September OSA Alert features Open World Forum, and Elizabeth Ziph of Linux Box. http://www.opensolutionsalliance.org/osa/osaalert.html
  4. Three OSA members won BOSSIE awards from Infoworld. http://bit.ly/c3ZGe
  5. Hurrah: Sun agrees that open source doing the job for enterprises ... http://bit.ly/PuzWp
  6. Tech commons finally viable: http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Blogs/view/5076/.html
  7. Technology Research Firm Third Nature Publishes New Study on Open Source Adoption in the Data Warehouse Market http://bit.ly/MH00v
  8. Anthony Gold (Bluenog, formerly Unisys): The OSA invites developers, software vendors, service providers and end users.
  9. Nick Halsey (Jaspersoft): the various business models of commercial open source companies causes a lot of confusion in the marketplace.
  10. Debbie Moynihan (FUSE): nail down service plans for mission critical applications, and identify for others even if using free download.
  11. Podcast discussions so far: impact of economy, Obama as first Open Source president, security, licensing
  12. Four OSA executives sitting for a podcast on open source adoption right now.
  13. Windows 7 Sins is quite the rant. Surely it's cathartic. Matt Asay, however, found irony. http://bit.ly/SzJqJ
  14. OSA members deal with Microsoft's 7 deadly sins every day, and now they are part of a campaign. http://windows7sins.org/
  15. Matt Asay: "I suspect that IBM is really the best model for an "open-source company" going forward." http://bit.ly/11WoX5
  16. An interesting connection between open source and Chinese food. http://bit.ly/PJXzN
  17. Great TED talk from Dan Pink explains why open source development works so well. http://bit.ly/kbxeV
  18. So many in OS work remotely, Citrix has a timely webinar Aug 26: Thinking Outside the Cubicle: The Evolving 21st-Century Virtual Office
  19. OSA marketing meeting coming up in 3 minutes.
  20. Former IDC exec. Dave Vellante trashes sponsored whitepapers. http://tinyurl.com/trashwp