Open source is becoming increasingly popular in today's enterprise. Held on March 17-18 in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) gathers many great minds for two days of enlightening discussions on how enterprises use open source for innovation, accelerated productivity and, of course, cost cutting.
There is a lot of interest in doing cryptography using Python these days which has resulted in quite an impressive number of cryptography related Python modules out there. PyPI package index alone has about 50 'cryptography'-tagged entries.
Unfortunately, the quality and scope of those packages, well, varies. So instead of putting together a list of All The Crypo Stuff Out There, I tried to discover cryptography toolkits an enterprise Python developer could be interested in.
Much has been said in our inner open source circles about the cost of open source. But now, people outside the inner circle are understanding the value and costs associated with open source. Open source software bits are generally freely available for download, so the acquisition costs are low.
Just over 4 years ago I was presented with the privileged opportunity of leading ActiveState as its CEO. I say privileged because ActiveState is comprised of a group of very smart and very passionate individuals (aka "Activators") and it is not every day that an opportunity like this presents itself. However, when you are entrusted to lead a group of open source developers, you need to adjust your leadership style.
In Jeffrey Hammond's recent article on Dr. Dobb's (What Developers Think, January 16, 2010), his survey results highlighted something we have known for some time based on the developers and companies that we talk to:
Managers don't know everything their developers are using or doing.
His survey showed that:
80% of developers say they use open source components for development or application deployment
How about a white paper! We have just posted our first featured resource for 2008. License to Code: Indemnifying Your Business Against Open Source Licensing Liabilities Download it here. Happy reading.
How about a white paper!
We have just posted our first featured resource for 2008.
License to Code: Indemnifying Your Business Against Open Source Licensing Liabilities
Much has been said in our inner open source circles about the cost of open source. But now, people outside the inner circle are understanding the value and costs associated with open source. Open source software bits are generally freely available for download, so the acquisition costs are low.
Just over 4 years ago I was presented with the privileged opportunity of leading ActiveState as its CEO. I say privileged because ActiveState is comprised of a group of very smart and very passionate individuals (aka "Activators") and it is not every day that an opportunity like this presents itself. However, when you are entrusted to lead a group of open source developers, you need to adjust your leadership style.
The following is a guest post from Romuald Restout VP, Product Development at Arbita and President and Chairperson of the Board of 
