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  1. Wayne Caccamo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Open Source Summit Report

    The article says it was a Hewlett-Packard guy, and O'Reilly's list of summit participants lists Caccamo as the only HP representative. It seems likely, since he's described as having lots of marketing experience. His e-mail address is given, too.

  2. python by AMK · · Score: 1 · on Google goes Beta
    Perl's still more convenient for text processing than Python, because regular expressions are part of the language instead of being in a module, as in Python. But, since there are lots of people who don't do text processing, that's not much of a disadvantage.

    Anyway, most things can be found on www.python.org. Many people started off with GvR's tutorial; O'Reilly's "Learning Python" book is currently scheduled for release in April.

    Java hackers should take a look at JPython, a 100% Pure Java reimplementation of Python that's an astoundingly cool tool for prototyping and testing Java code.

    People interested in the Web should look at the recently freed Zope; the documentation still needs work, and lots, lots more examples, but it's also a very powerful publishing system.

  3. More online chapters. by Ray+Dassen · · Score: 1 · on Review:Open Sources

    The final draft of Bruce Perens' chapter "The Open Source Definition" is on-line, as is Eric Raymond's prologue ""The Real Programmers".

  4. O'Reilly comes through again... by Robin+Hood · · Score: 1 · on The Road to Linux: The Descent (Part One)
    Ah, yes. After the confusing jumble of books by other publishers, Jon Katz (if I read this right) finally settled on a pair of O'Reilly books to guide him through. A Nutshell Handbook (which might be confusing now but which you will return to again and again), and Running Linux. Well chosen, Jon! I would recommend yet one more: it's small, it's concise, but it's the best book of its type I can remember seeing: Learning the UNIX Operating System, by Jerry Peek, Grace Todino and John Strang (ISBN: 1-56592-390-1). It's published (of course) by O'Reilly & Associates, and it's aimed at people who have never used Unix (of any flavor) before. It may not teach you how to admin your system, but it'll sure teach you how to USE your system (i.e., be a user). And it's cheap: $10.95 according to the O'Reilly on-line catalog.

    Good luck!
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