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Jim Winstead, one of our top developers, recently sent a link to an article by Bob Warfield "To build better software, you need fewer people." Jim's one of the unsung heroes of MySQL who works like crazy to eliminate bugs whether in th
A few days ago I discussed the results of IBM WebSphere's software division as a proxy to measure the much heralded death of traditional software. (Spoiler alert: It's not dying). Matt wrote: "Why is it that proprietary vendors seem to
Long time readers of this blog or my old one at www.theopenforce.com know I've been very interested in finding a portable internet device with a keyboard. Over the last 20 years, I've probably tried just about every pocketable computer ther
Hassle-free Linux box might be an oxymoron (like government efficiency), but it's an interesting strategy by startup company Zonbu. They have create a small form factor home PC, used a low-end Via CPU, based it on Gentoo Linux and a raft of open
For the past six months or so, we've been running MySQL 5.1 for various internal and external applications. MySQl 5.1 has been in beta for quite some time and as we move closer to a GA release, I believe its important for us to "eat our own
Some of you know that I've decided to track the demise ;-) of the traditional software market on a quarterly basis using IBM's WebSphere branded revenue as the basis. I use the WebSphere division for no other reason than it's the part
Because I've been a hermit over the past few days, I'm only now reading about Sun's open source event earlier this week. Sadly, I wasn't invited (likely because I work at IBM and I'm a peon in the OSS landscape). :-) Looks li
Amid what turned out to be a prophetic warning issued by Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and the subsequent but completely unrelated federal lawsuit filed against Novell last week, the Provo, UT, firm quietly pulled NetWare into the present with an op
Update the Command pattern to handle common Ajax requests
I wrote a couple of articles for www.ondisruption.com recently that I think could be useful to folks in IT. (Important disclosure: this site is run by my brother Mike, a disruption consultant. But luckily, he doesn't pay me, so I don't thin