The last talk before lunch was Graeme Merral's "Free Software: The AOL|7 Story". AOL|7 is a joint venture between AAPT, AOL and Channel Seven. Its sort of a hybrid company, part ISP, and part content company.

They started out with proprietary solutions such as Vignette and software from Xoom.com, but had trouble making it work reliably. Eventually they went to open source for reliability, performance and as a way of doing more with less money.

Their platform is a pretty standard mix of Linux, Apache, PHP and other common open source tools.

The Apache mod_ntlm module was also mentioned as a way of getting Apache to authenticate against an NT or Active Directory domain.