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Matt Asay wrote a well received post about dynamic scripting languages such as PHP, Perl and Python ‘crashing the enterprise party’. While the Indeed.com job trends chart that Matt used is somewhat misleading, the chart isn’t central to his point. I say somewhat misleading because the chart tracks percentage growth of jobs seeking [...]
But this should have little impact on Oracle’s intentions for MySQL.
After finishing my post about Marten & Monty’s differing views on the Oracle acquisition of MySQL via Sun, I read that Richard Stallman (RMS) had published an open letter on the topic. Matt Asay tweeted:
“Has anyone read this RMS/KEI/ORG ltr? It’s living in dreamland. ORCL [...]
Last week I wrote about the benefits of open standards versus open source. I argued that open standards provide greater protection against vendor lock-in than open source alone. I was reminded of this conclusion when reading Peter-Paul Koch’s analysis of WebKit implementations. Thanks to Palm’s Dion Almaer for pointing out the analysis.
Oracle reported Fiscal Q12010 results yesterday. Why should open source vendors care? Well, there’s obviously a concern when the vendor you’re hoping will buy you has a bad quarter. Ok, ok, all joking aside, the reason open source vendors, and specifically middleware vendors should care is apparent when looking at Oracle’s Application versus Database and [...]
Let me start with a few disclaimers. By virtue of working in the IBM WebSphere Application Server team, I compete with SpringSource. I know, and like, several of the key people at SpringSource. I’m happy that their hard work paid of with such a large exit. While I compete with SpringSource, I’m excited that this [...]
Dave interviewed Zend’s CEO Andi Gutmans. I particularly found this part of the interview interesting:
“Rosenberg: When you start talking about high reliability, security, and performance, it sounds like you’re working to disrupt traditional Java environments? Is my hunch correct?
Matt asks the question “Should Sun buy Novell?” which is predicated on the growth of Linux vs. Solaris. Matt writes:
“IDC predicts that Linux will grow 21 percent year over year in 2009. I’m guessing Solaris isn’t seeing that kind of growth this year…or any time in the future.”
Sun reported very healthy revenue growth for its Software category in Q209. Chart 6 in this deck suggests that Software Billings grew at 21%. To non-accountants, Revenue != Billings. In Q209, ~$1 Billed = ~$0.9 Revenue. Read the notes on chart 6 for more details if you’re interested.
A Slashdot story reports:
“Google has announced an unlocked version of T-Mobile’s G1 for sale at the same unlocked price of $399. The Android Dev Phone 1 is the G1, except being truly open
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