Open Source development means big business in NEO

Crain's Cleveland reported today that Open Source programmers are in high demand, which means NEO universities and businesses should train and certify our residents for this opportune sector of the IT industry. The benefits go beyond skilling our folks for the new economy, as this will insure businesses in the area are able to find the workers they need to locate and grow here.

Of course, REALNEO is entirely open source - we run Drupal on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) plaform, and will soon integrate in People Aggregator (FOAF), OpenMedia, and several other projects, so folks using the site are experiencing the state of art of open source, and local programmers are encouraged to become involved in any of the framework project - post your interest as a comment below.

Regarding the big world of open source enterprise application development in NEO, read on...

Crain's Cleveland On-Line Editor Jeff Stacklin references a Nov.
8, 2004 article in Information Week:

Certification:
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<>We want the expertise in open source
to be internal to the company,' says Dutile. That's why KeyCorp covers
certification costs for employees via Red Hat or the Linux Professional
Institute. [1]

Which
links to another related and insightful Information Week article on
this challenge:

In
Search Of Open-Source Experts [2]

As companies ramp up open-source
deployments, expertise is in high demand and short supply. The costs of
developing talent can add up. [2]