Red Hat and Fedora Linux Barometer in Belgium

Definitely, “crisis effect” or not it is better and better each year !

Now, to those who say : it depends of the “Head count” ! I will respond : “No, it is up to you to take the risk or not !”
Understand who can ( Well, I do not know if this sentence is correct English expression. – In French : “Comprenne qui peut”-)

RedHat/Free IPA Status ???

First of all, for those who did not know what is IPA :

IPA is an open source identity and access management solution that centrally manages identity, policy, and audits for users, machines, and services in your Linux and Unix environment.

- Well a great tool for those who do not want to manage a bunch of Linux servers with local authentication –

In addition, you can use it freely via http://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page or with Red Hat support via http://www.redhat.com/enterprise_ipa/

So, WHY this post ? Just to present IPA ?

Definitively not !
Well, indeed I heard the Red Hat support for IPA will stop soon for unknown reasons.
My first reaction was for those who taken this decision : Did they think about current IT projects which planned to use IPA ?
My second reaction was : Why did Red Hat launch the product officially then few month ago ?
My third reaction was : If Red Hat took effectively that decision, they probably have good reasons but what did they propose in order to replace it ? Penrose virtual directory ? Symark PowerBroke ? or others ? Not sure, these one responds to the needs of my clients.

Let’s hope it is just a false rumour cause if it is the case I do not think for my part it is a good choice even if project without support still continue to evolve.

Maybe, with this post I will have more explanations about this rumours.

Belgium, België, Belgique…

Let us a chance to show you that we can develop Open Source in Belgium !
Take the risk, trust us and you will not disappointed.

The Milkshake Moment.

Growth is the central focus of every business, yet many businesses continually find ways to shoot themselves in the foot.

In Milkshake Moment, Steven Little shows us how to identify and overcome the stifling behaviours built into our organization and get you back on track to substantive change and real growth.

Read Milkshake Moment and find out how to ditch the pointless policies and stupid rules so you can give your customers what they really want; they’ll reward you for it.

Thanks to Eddy! Great Book.

Reference : Amazon link to this book

Accept to fail to achieve the target.

- The Deming wheel -

Failures and retries are the secret of the success – FRASOS -.

Confer : http://iquaid.org/2009/02/28/failure-as-the-secret-of-success/

Applying Open Source Methodologies to Management

Well, just to say that OK!

• It is not the easier way !
• it takes time !
• it takes efforts !
• it needs often a reconsideration of a way of thinking
• and, and … a incredible quantity of explanations.       Beleive me !

But it finally pay off !!!
If you are interested by the subject I recommend “The Futur of Management” by Gary Hamel

N.B. : I admit I did not read it entirely by the less I red confirm Open Source Methodologies are the right way to go.