IBM team describes a fictitious organization that requires a customized Web site that includes, among other things, document storage, discussion groups, specialized workgroups, conference scheduling, and schedule session descriptions. They illustrate the creation of this Web site using the following open source tools: * Drupal. An open source content management system * MySQL. An open source database store * PHP. A Web-based language for supporting dynamic content * Apache. An open source Web server * Eclipse. An open source development environment * CVS"

"The Biospecimen Research Database represents a joint effort of the BRN, the RAND Corporation, and the National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics, to survey and curate the existing scientific literature for research data that defines the precise relationships between biospecimen handling and the quality and reproducibility of data for cancer research." BRN=Biospecimen Research Network

Oracle announces social/collaboration package that runs on their middleware. Killer app: "Users upload their presentations to OSL, which then splits the file into individual slides. Any user can tag, rate, or annotate the individual slides. Those looking to create presentations scroll through the existing slide base via a user interface that looks a lot like Apple’s “Cover Flow”. To build a new presentation, you simply drag the slides you want into a folder, OSL does the rest. "

"We have internal "product core teams" that meet to discuss various aspects of the products: what's happening, sales tips, market intelligence, etc. This is exactly the kind of thing that a community should be doing. Now I just need to figure out how to make it something that my team develops together, rather than being so driven by me."