Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in java on Jun 22nd, 2008
I’m going to attempt to answer some of the comments that last week’s post received. Problem is - there were a lot of them - spread across Reddit, Slashdot, Digg, DZone (and again), InfoQ and the blogosphere. I clearly can’t reply to them all so I’ve grouped them and will answer generally.
But first - I’d […]
Posted in open source on Jun 19th, 2008
[also read part 2]
At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology.
At JavaOne in […]
Posted in Red Hat on Jun 3rd, 2008
Wow, it’s been almost 2 months since I left Sun to join the JBoss division of Red Hat.
Time for a quick update. In many cases I’m comparing with Sun which is a) a little unfair because they’re companies in very different situations; and b) unfortunately my only reference point. So, I apologise beforehand if this […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12th, 2008
Sun was pushing JavaFX pretty hard at JavaOne this year - as it was last year; but still no actual product. My intial reaction to JavaFX (the scripting language formerly knows as F3) was pretty positive - but that was almost 2 years ago. The phrase “Better late than never” is true for Mother’s Day […]
I’m not even tempted to gloat about Sun’s Q3 news and I think it’s a shame that Wall St. will be demanding Sun to shrink back to profitability as a result. Having RIFs (Reduction In Force) hanging over the workforce is completely demoralizing - I know - I survived at least five. Sun were starting […]
Posted in Red Hat on Apr 9th, 2008
After 8.5 exciting years - I recently left Sun to join the JBoss division of Red Hat. I’m honoured to be invited to join a company I’ve admired (as a competitor) for many years; and that’s as true for JBoss as it is for Red Hat.
Red Hat has much to offer - a legendary record […]
Posted in personal on Mar 28th, 2008
Later this year I would have been celebrating 9 years (9 YEARS !!) at Sun. I would, that is, if I hadn’t gone and got myself a new job elsewhere - which is precisely what I have done. So today I’m celebrating 8 years, 5 months and 8 days at Sun; and about 6 months […]
Posted in Business, Red Hat, open source on Mar 18th, 2008
Matt Assay provides some good reading as usual this morning. He’s tried to correlate stock prices of a few companies who base some or part of their business on Open Source with their “Open Source Business Maturity”. Essentially he’s plotted the stock price (ie. the financial market’s appraisal of the company) of Red Hat, Novell […]
Posted in blogging on Feb 28th, 2008
If all went well (and Linda pulled the right levers) this entry should be included on the front page of blogs.sun.com. As I mentioned - after 4 happy years, I’ve deprecated my blog at Sun in favour of my own hosted WordPress blog.
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
Sun just closed the MySQL acquisition. No word on Oracle / BEA yet.