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There's more noise about Solaris competing with Linux over at slashdot. I can understand the argument that Sun should direct their efforts to Linux. You know, Peace, Love, Linux. But which business would throw away their crown jewel to compete i
In the spirit of sourceforge.net, the folks at MuleSource.org have launched MuleForge, a collaborative site where Mule community members and MuleSource partners can contribute extensions and applications that build upon the open source provider'
Roger McNamee may be more famous as a tech investor and author of "The New Normal" than as a guitar player, but that could be changing. For years he's had a jam-band called the Flying Other Brothers as a sideline to his investment work
Ok, this is definitely off topic, but... There's a podcast I listen to regularly called Phedipidations. If that name rings a bell, maybe it's because you're a runner. If not, maybe you want to skip the rest of this posting. At any rate
I picked this story up from Kevin Burton's feedblog. It turns out that last week, Greg Stein, director of the Apache Foundation was mugged outside his home in Mountain View. Greg was already on crutches at the time so this is a double whammy. Ke
Bryan Kirschner over at Port25 has a very interesting graph: What does the graph show? According to Bryan: "It’s showing Microsoft’s reported fiscal year revenue, which grew to $51.122B USD in 2007 from $6.075B in 1995 .... During mo
Sun's Simon Phipps posted about the different roles/stakeholders in an OSS community. Phipps states: "I'll be using this model in the coming months within Sun to advise our engineering, marketing and management teams on their community
One of the frequent requests we've heard from MySQL customers in the last year is the need for more certified DBAs. That's one of the reasons we kicked off some seminars earlier this month to help train Oracle DBAs in MySQL. According to th
We've all read about the Windows Genuine Advantage server outage. Dvorak used the event to raise concerns about SaaS. "All this proves is that these Web-based applications cannot be trusted." I am by far the biggest supporter of SaaS,
Many years ago, I wrote a very simple project management system that did PERT and Gantt charts on Windows 3.1. It was mostly an exercise for me to learn object-oriented programming on Windows, so I just did the basics, nothing fancy. I've notice