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 Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2009
It’s July 4th and we have an extended weekend in the US which is a good enough excuse to catch up on some blogging; at least until the Strawberry Margaritas start flowing. At Java One this year we announced an initiative called Open Choice which I blogged about previously. Fundamentally Open Choice is about broadening [...]
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 Red Hat on Dec 10th, 2008
Late last week we released two new versions of Red Hat Application Stack for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 respectively. These releases include fixes for security vulnerabilities and update major components such as JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2 and 4.3, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL. For more information – [...]