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Come See Doug Wilson Speak At the Next ACM Meeting
Submitted by brian.ryback on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 14:55On February 11th, the Chicago Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery will be having their next meeting where Doug Wilson, co-founder of Breakthrough Technologies, will be discussing the processes that make Breakthrough a successful organization. More information can be found here.
85%
Submitted by brian.ryback on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 14:09Why is that number valid especially in today's economic climate? "A report released by Stamford, Conn., research firm Gartner Inc. in November 2008 shows that the adoption of open source software is becoming pervasive. Of the 274 worldwide companies surveyed by Gartner, 85% said they were currently using open source in their enterprises and the remaining 15% said they expect to use it in the next 12 months."
CMS Conference is coming!
Submitted by doug.wilson on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 15:43The CMSExpo 2009 is being hosted here in Evanston! Folks from all over will come to learn about Drupal, Joomla, Alfresco, and other great open source solutions for publishers, small and medium businesses, etc.
Breakthrough is planning on turning out and hopefully presenting some informational sessions on Drupal and Alfresco.
Stay tuned for more details.
OpenLaszlo 4.2 Released
Submitted by brian.ryback on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 00:00With today's tough economic times, more companies are leveraging open source technologies. One extremely well-supported platform for Rich Internet Application development is OpenLaszlo, which recently released Version 4.2. Feel free to ask Breakthrough how you can make Open Source technology work for you.
CEPort BSP Goes Live
Submitted by doug.wilson on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 23:00The CEPort Building Services Portal has just gone live this week! We released version 1.0 of the product software for our client CEPort. CEPort is a subsidiary of Continental Electrical Construction Company based in Skokie, IL.
The CEPort BSP is a java-based solution that extensively leverages open building protocols and the open source software stack to delevr a truly innovative platform for building management. It allows C-levwl executives of owner-occupied building to access data across disparate building systems and integrate that data with the enterprise.
To learn more about CEPort BSP, visit their website.
