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Creating, executing, and managing bundles in an OSGi container
Avid runner and all 'round insightful dude Jon Udell wrote about a new idea around what I'll call RSaaS --Running Shoes as a Service. "If you’re a runner, spending $100 every six (or even three) months is infinitely preferable to
Zmanda has introduced a new version of Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) 2.1 which adds quite a few new capabilities for MySQL users. This version now includes enhanced snapshot support working with Linux LVM, Windows VSS, Solaris ZFS, NeApp SnapManager
An aspect of the open source software nirvana has been the end of Microsoft's dominance. Well, anyone who sees Linux, OpenOffice or another OSS project/product as the death nail in Microsoft's coffin is not living in reality. It pains me to
Following on last week's announcement from Microsoft to be more interoperable and open, the EU has now fined Microsoft a cool $1.3 billion for failing to comply with a 2004 ruling. This brings the total fines the EU has levied on Microsoft to ar
Many of you know that OpenLogic offers consolidated technical support, updates and indemnification for hundreds of open source projects. Earlier this year, OSS luminaries such as Shaun (of JBoss fame) and Rod (of SpringSource fame) questioned whether
CEO Jonathan Schwartz calls Sun's $1 billion acquisition of MySQL 'the most important in the modern software industry'
We've now officially closed MySQL's acquisition by Sun this morning and I thought I'd make a few observations about the process. I've been through several acquisitions over the years, both on the acquiring and the acquired side, a
A hands-on introduction to Spring's flexible component model
I'm finally getting a chance to read up on the Microsoft interop news today. It really sucked to see the headlines all day, but not have a chance to read them until now. While the words "open source" are mentioned in the announcement a