Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 – [...]
Posted in Business, Technology on Nov 26th, 2008
Since first posting – I’ve added Open Office and Java FX – just goes to show – Sun have a lot of stuff.
I promised myself I wouldn’t bite; yet here I am. I’m contributing to the “Here’s what Sun should do meme”. And why not - I’m as good a keyboard-CEO as the next person [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Technology on Mar 11th, 2008
As a technologist I’ve managed to completely avoid the world of databases; I think it had something to do with a bad reaction to relational algebra in a CS class. However – my employer has made its aspirations clear so I thought I should at least take some interest.
IDC have just released their RDBMS Vendor [...]
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
Sun just closed the MySQL acquisition. No word on Oracle / BEA yet.