The slides for my Monitoring MySQL talk , which I gave earlier today in an overcrowded MySQl Developersroom at Fosdem are now online, both at my site and at Slideshare
As of now I actually expect people to use those slides for
schoolwork or next year in a main Fosdem track :)
As afterall that is the goal of Open Source and spreading the
word ..
MySQL Monitoring Shoot Out View more presentations from Kris Buytaert. (tags: mysql …
[Read more]I received an email from Tarus Balog, CEO of OpenNMS Group, on Friday, taking issue with the language I had used to describe two open source vendors (and I use that term deliberately).
Essentially Tarus objected to me using the term “open source vendor” to describe two companies with Open Core licensing strategies. His email raises a valid point about how we determine which companies are considered “open source vendors” and I wanted to use the opportunity to outline the rules I use to make that decision.
As a technical snafu at our end had prevented Tarus from leaving a comment on the blog I hope he won’t mind me using his words to explain the issue he raised.
He wrote:
“You …
[Read more]Linux Defenders formed to protect against patents. Sun adds new board members and officially announces MySQL 5.1. Microsoft releases open source content management system. Google’s secret OS? And more.
Official announcements
Open Invention Network and Partners Unveil
Landmark ‘Linux Defenders’ Program to Give the Open Source
Community Greater Freedom Open Invention Network
Sun Microsystems and Southeastern Asset Management Agree to Appoint New Independent Members to Sun’s Board of Directors Sun Microsystems
[Read more]Matt Reid wants to know what we want in an Open Source MySQL monitoring solution ?
He is working on the second incarnation of Monolith and wants input from the MySQL community.
Now for me the bigger question is if we want an isolated tool that runs stand alone, or a tool which we can integrate it in something we already have.
To me there is a difference between a tool that I want to use to debug my environment, such as Mytop or MySQL Activity Report, in that case I need some tool that quickly installs with little dependencies and little impact.
On the other side I want a tool that is constantly there, that tells me about trends and performance history. But there I don't want an isolated toool, I want something fully integrated where I can correlate different measurements from disk io, memory usage etc , that tool should also tell me about the …
[Read more]Sun Microsystems slashes jobs in major restructuring. SpringSource gets Groovy with G2One. Novell goes after Red Hat. Sonatype confirms Marc Visser as new CEO. Neil Young’s new car. And more.
Press releases
Sun Microsystems Aligns Business with Global
Economic Climate and Amplifies Growth Opportunities Across Open
Source Platforms Sun Microsystems
SpringSource Acquires G2One Inc SpringSource
Novell Announces New Program to Aid Transition to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Novell
[Read more]A busy week for Sun includes new product releases and an annual shareholders’ meeting. Microsoft tries to unseat open source with BizSpark for entrepreneurs. Who is making money from open source? Obama: Open source President? And more.
Press releases
IBM, Sun Microsystems Launch ODF Toolkit Union To
Grow Adoption, Community and Software Innovation Sun
Microsystems
Sun Unveils New Systems And Storage Solutions For MySQL Sun Microsystems
Microsoft Jump-Starts Global Entrepreneurs With BizSpark Microsoft
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[Read more]CA and IBM, two of the so-called Big Four in systems management software, announced this week a federated configuration management database (CMDB) system for interoperability of their software. Something like this comoing from two of Big Four (BMC, CA, HP and IBM) wouldn’t normally hold much meaning for open source players such as GroundWork, Hyperic and Zenoss, but it actually does for a couple of reasons.
First, part of the technology that CA and IBM are using to link up their systems management software, which allows it to share information between the two CMDBs, is actually open source software itself from the Eclipse Cosmos Project. CA and IBM said the Eclipse Cosmos software accelerated implementation of the CMDB Federation (CMDBf) specification and the two vendors plan to contribute code …
[Read more]JasperSoft’s business development director Andrew Lampitt has kicked off his new blog with an interesting post related to business models used by open source-related vendors.
In it he attempts to define the approach utilized by the likes of JasperSoft and SugarCRM, which offer open source products with core functionality, as well as commercial extensions. The approach is a twist on the dual licensing approach made famous by MySQL* where the vendor, as copyright holder, makes the code available under both the GNU GPL and a commercial license for customers that would rather avoid the GPL.
The approach taken by JasperSoft et al is not to segment by user base but by features. As Andrew explains, “the commercial license is a super-set of the open source product, i.e., it offers premium product features that you will not see in …
[Read more]Matt Asay is excited about Red Hat’s Spacewalk project to release the code behind its Red Hat Network Satellite product under an open source license (as he should be, he’s been waiting over a year for it). As well as anticipation, Matt’s excitement can also be attributed to the potential for Spacewalk to become the default management platform for open source software.
As he writes:
“What is the first thing that MySQL and JBoss did to add value to their support subscriptions? Build networks. What, presumably, will be the first things that other open-source companies do? Build networks.
What is the result? A swamp of incompatible service-delivery networks.
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[Read more]Sun advances GlassFish. Red Hat announces JBoss momentum. Mandriva releases Linux update. (and more)
Sun Microsystems Announces Technology Preview of Open Source Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and New Sun GlassFish Communications Server, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)
Red Hat Continues Middleware Industry Momentum, Red Hat (Press Release)
Mandriva presents its latest distribution: Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring, Mandriva (Press Release)
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