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Here are three points from Tim Bray's recent post. They very relevant to OSS. (I added the numbers to delineate his points): [1] Getting started should be free: Also, it shouldn’t take more than a few days. [2] Some popular tools will be O
Back in the day, Sun was riding high as a result of its success with Dot Coms. It was all going to be different; brick and mortar customers were laggards that "didn't get it", the future was in the hands of Dot Coms. Sun bet on the dot
Support for the increasingly popular open-source suite will be offered to distributing companies, not end-users
Sam Ruby has a knack of making simple statements that convey so much. Here's an example: "Standards that Matter are Standards that Ship" So true. Sam talks about the <video> element in the HTML5 spec and how certain vendo
United Airlines, my carrier of choice, sent me an email this week indicating that they are now going to offer a special reward for flyers who achieve a million miles lifetime flying on United. Having flown over 900,000 miles with United so far, I am
Q4 is usually a time when you're doing your planning for the next fiscal year and looking at staffing up in Q1. The only problem is it always takes longer to hire than you would expect. Jobvite is an interesting potential solution. It's a s
Integrate JasperReports with your existing iBATIS implementation
SpringSource unveils new framework aimed at easing enterprise integration
How do you disrupt a billion dollar hardware industry? Open source it. That's just what Sun has been doing, rolling out their latest OpenSPARC T2 processor with an open source design available under the GPL. You can download the design, specs, d
Software developer calls for worldwide user census, offers tool to help do it