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I had an interesting discussion with Marten Mickos at JavaOne last week that I've been meaning to blog about. I was disappointed that MySQL decided to put encryption and compression backup into MySQL Server (GPL license), versus including those
Interesting to note that Apple recently posted 51% growth year-over-year in their computer business. While Apple still has a modest 6% market share in the computer business according to IDC, that's double what it was a few years ago. Under Steve
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Marc Fleury, founder of JBoss and former open source bad boy posted an intriguing update saying he's hanging out with Digium co-founder Mark Spencer, who is now CTO. Who knows what they're up to, but I have a sense it's more than just
SourceForge.net is opening up its awards program to all open source projects this year for the first time (vs. only projects at SourceForge.net). The open nominations period runs until the middle of June. Finalists will be announced and voting will c
Like Zack, I too enjoyed Josh Berkus' tongue in cheek session on how to destroy a community. Josh provided an anti-list for those who would like to encourage a community as follows: Familiar tools Discourage poisonous people Document everything
While this was by no means my first Java One conference, I had not attended in the last four years. Just as the market has changed, so has Java One. Two observations struck me about the conference: it's more diverse than ever and secondly, there