“How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?”
Homer Simpson
I just realised that a really serious oversight needed to be fixed. I hadn’t quoted Homer Simpson even once on this blog until today’s 125th entry.
There is so much to learn about OSS that existing ideas often get forgotten. To enhance the overall learning on your OSS, you also need a mechanism for users to store their knowledge for future reference by a broader user body.
Knowledge bases are powerful tools to store helpful information. They do require effort to maintain, but it’s usually worth the effort. If your existing products don’t have knowledge-base functionality, consider building your own wiki, blog or other content sharing platform.
Standing out in a highly saturated and fragmented OSS market can be really difficult. We’re regularly involved in bake-offs where we see dozens of OSS
One of the things I love about my job is all the vendor demos I get to see. Product demos are one of the four
Have you read the book, “The 4-hour work week” by Tim Ferris? It was one of those relatively rare books that inspired a complete mindset
Over the years, we’ve been involved in many OSS procurement events and have seen a variety of different pricing models proposed by vendors. Being software,
Here at Passionate About OSS, we are exactly that – Passionate About OSS (Operational Support Systems). We’re also passionate about BSS, NMS, or any other names you call the tools that help to operationalise your network.
