Larry Augustin's Weblog: Posts from June 2006

June 12, 2006

Podcast with Tom Berquist of Ingres and MR Rangaswami of the SandHill Group

I had a great conversation with Tom Berquist, CFO of Ingres, and MR Rangaswami, co-founder of the Sand Hill Group, a few weeks ago on the subject of Open Source software. The podcast is available at sandhill.com. Tom and MR have been around the world of Enterprise software seemingly forever, and it was great to get their perspectives on the industry changes. Before taking the CFO job at Ingres, Tom was previously a research analyst at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs covering software and has an incredible depth of expertise in the industry.

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Conversation with Dana Blankenhorn

I recently had a conversation with Dana Blankenhorn about politics, society, personal empowerment and Open Source. I call it a conversation because I spent as much time listening to him as I did talking. Dana is one of the dying breed of journalists that actually understands and thinks about the topics he rights about. He's posted some of our conversation here.

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My Current Reading List

Robert Jordan: Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11)
I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I'm still reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series. When he passed L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth decology I could have cried. Maybe WoT will be made into the worst movie of all time? Still, I've been following the saga of Rand al'Thor for more than a decade now, and I want to see how it ends. Rumor is that the next book, Memory of Light, will in fact conclude the saga. To borrow a phrase, "There should have been only one." (**)
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
My family got me Quicksilver for Christmas. I'm not far into it, but it's clearly a Stephenson book: lots of historical connections, multiple timeline unfolding simultaneously, meticulous historical detail, 100 pages in the plot is still a total mystery, big "thud"factor... Should be a great read.
Chris DiBona: Open Sources 2.0
Anything edited by Chris DiBona is worth spending the time to read.
David Kahn: The Codebreakers : The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
I'm just getting started with this one, but so far it's a fascinating account of the history of cryptology. It's a massive 1200 pages, so it may be a while before I move on to something else.

My Events

You can find me at these upcoming events
2010-07-21 to 2010-07-22 OSCON.
I'll be at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) on Wednesday and Thursday. SugarCRM engineer John Mertic is speaking at OSCON.
2010-07-28 AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford.
Jeff Kaplan of THINKstrategies is moderating a panel session at the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford including Marten Mickos, Swayne Hill, Treb Ryan, Lars Buytaert, and me. I'm looking forward to a great discussion.
2010-09-27 to 2010-09-29 Paris Open Source ThinkTank.
Olliance Open Source ThinkTanks are always great events, and I'll thrilled to be at the Paris event again this year.
2010-09-30 to 2010-10-01 Open World Forum.
I am speaking at the Open World Forum (OWF) in Paris on Oct 1, 2010. I am also a judge in the OWF Open Innovation Demo Cup. Be sure to submit your project before July 31 for consideration.
2010-10-05 London CRM Acceleration.
SugarCRM will hold a CRM Acceleration in London on October 5, 2010.
2010-10-21 Munich CRM Acceleration.
SugarCRM will hold a CRM Acceleration in Munich on October 21, 2010.
2010-10-25 Cap Gemini Open Your Mind.
I'm speaking in the Netherlands at Open Your Mind, an event sponsored by Cap Gemini on Open Source.

(Some of) My Favorite People

Chris DiBona
Chris is a just plain great person and stand-up guy. He's also the Open Source program manager at Google.
Doc Searls
Doc is the senior editor at Linux Journal and one of the four authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, the iconoclastic web site that became the best-selling book.
Matt Asay
Matt is the founder of OSBC, and currently runs business development at Alfresco.
r0ml Lefkowitz
The r0ml is one of the most entertaining and insightful commentators on the state of the IT industry that I know.
Stephen Walli
I first met Stephen when he worked at Microsoft, and I organized a dinner at OSCON between Eric Raymond and a number of the Microsoft Shared Source team. I liked him even then so that should tell you a lot.

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June 12, 2006

Podcast with Tom Berquist of Ingres and MR Rangaswami of the SandHill Group

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