Chris Stines is Planetizen's former Editor and the founder of Urban Insight, a leading digital agency. Chris has 25 years of experience in technology consulting and urban planning and has served as a consultant to public sector state, county, and local agencies, Fortune 500 private firms, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations.
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Open Source Business Readiness Ratings
First -- I just loved Ken's post on <a href="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/archives/2005/07/01/298/">GeoTagging</a>. What a great collection of links he's included in his post. We've got a couple projects at UI that could potentially use this type of interface/solution. <br /> <br /> I just got my weekly <a href="http://www.nemertes.com/">Nemertes Impact Analysis</a> (Nemertes specializes in quantifying the business impact of technology) and this one focuses on the growth of Enterprise use of Open Source tools.