A day has passed since the end of this year's
Olliance Think Tank in Napa, California, and I've had a chance to reflect (and recover).



This is a unique event on the open source calendar, well-attended by numerous entrepreneurs, executives, industry experts and thought leaders in commercial open source. Key trends and issues facing the industry were discussed, plus ample opportunity for offline networking. Not to mention the all-important choice of venue (Napa Valley is the capital of the USA's wine industry) and numerous opportunities to partake in the local product, which helped dull the edges of the many Type A personalities in attendance!
There were several takeaways from this event, with the most significant being that it's no longer a matter of
whether open source will succeed, but
how. The was a pervasive sense of optimism and excitement at this event, permeating every presentation and offline conversation.
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