Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Enterprise, Red Hat, java, open source on Feb 24th, 2010
Apparently it was Apache Web Server’s 15th birthday yesterday – congratulations to anyone who’s ever been involved in the project. I doubt any would have thought that 15 years on, Apache would have become the dominant Web Server on the Web and the foundation of one of the most successful and recognized Open Source forges. [...]
Posted in java, open source on Feb 16th, 2010
The JBoss AS team moved to a more rapid and incremental release cycle with the 6.x family and the second milestone was released today (release notes, download, repo.). The release was lead by Brian Stansberry and new features include :
Servlet 3.0 / JBoss Web 3.0
JPA 2.0 / Hibernate 3.5
JAX-RS 1.0 / RESTEasy 2.0
Microcontainer 2.2
More detail [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Red Hat, Technology, java, open source on Dec 1st, 2009
Zallinger’s “March of Progress” from wikipedia.
I’ve been part of the Java ecosystem for long enough to see and be part of every Java EE / J2EE release to date. I still have a Forte SynerJ box-set somewhere – we claimed it as the first fully integrated J2EE 1.2 App Server and IDE – that was [...]
Posted in Business, open source on Dec 19th, 2008
Three surveys ([1] [2] [3,4]] ) have been rattling around my almost empty pre-christmas inbox this week which give us some useful insight into how open source is being adopted; what drives adoption and what inhibits it. Reading across the surveys – I come up with the following observations and few surprises :
Open Source [...]
Posted in java, open source on Dec 8th, 2008
The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
— Isaac Asimov
And that, so I’ve been told, was a guiding principal behind [...]
Posted in open source on Oct 30th, 2008
Pete Muir (Seam lead and fellow Brit.) has just posted a podcast on JSF Central. Seam is a pretty broad integration framework and it’s hard to talk about Seam without talking about a host of other technologies – Web Beans, Wicket, JSF, GWT, Flex, Facelets – which Pete does in the podcast.
Seam 2.1 was released [...]
Posted in java, open source on Oct 23rd, 2008
The really big news last week was that JBoss ON (Operation Network) has finally been open sourced as the Jopr project (I’m trying to like the name – honest). JBoss ON is a sophisticated management platform for the JBoss Middleware stack and it’s based on Project RHQ (A collaboration between Red Hat and Hyperic).
There’s a [...]
Posted in Technology, open source on Oct 16th, 2008
Originally uploaded by sharps
With a bit of trimming, a swap-file and a new build – I now have Fedora 10 running pretty reliably on the OLPC. I wouldn’t call it snappy exactly but it’s a start.
Fedora is running off a writeable live image (using a 4Gb SD Card) which also hosts the swap-file. The poor [...]
Posted in Enterprise, open source on Sep 19th, 2008
I’ve spent too much time in airport lounges this week and I’ve been trying to avoid the mainstream news – I think I’ll just read the dumbed down summary of the credit-meltdown in Men’s Health in a couple of months time.
As such there were only a couple of items in my del.icio.us queue this week [...]
Posted in Red Hat, open source on Aug 6th, 2008
I’ve been meaning to find some time to respond to a recent report by Fortify that cast some pretty negative aspersions on the security of Open Source software. Their conclusions are fairly sweeping generalizations that could be applied to just about anything :
Government and commercial organisations… should use open source applications with great caution”
absolutely true [...]