I probably ranted a bit too much on the marketing push that Sun
has been trying to make into the Open Source community.
The economical situation isn't really perfect so Sun does deserve
some credit too.
Yesterday Techcrunch published an exclusive interview with Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun and how Sun will be rescued .
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One of the most interesting people I met during my trip to South Africa earlier this week was Aslam Raffee. He keynoted the Sun event, sharing his view of the South African government’s stance on Open Source.
Aslam has two roles: He is the Chief Information Officer at the South African Department of Science and Technology. He is also the chairperson of the OSS Workgroup in the South African Government IT Officers Council.
From Aslam’s presentation, it is clear that South Africa is ahead of the game when it comes to finding out ways to mandate the use of Open Source in Government. I had the privilege to talk to Aslam over lunch, and he described the …
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Big Cats by micalngelo
“Every startup CEO is at least thinking about the need to cut back right now” – Michael Arrington
“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffet
I’ll give you one guess as to which man I’m listening to. So no, not every startup CEO is cutting back. Apple spent their time innovating during the last downturn and look where it got them. I’m thrilled to have just passed out big, healthy profit-sharing bonuses to all of our employees this week for the 5th consecutive year. We think and hope they’ll be even bigger next year.
…[Read more]There's been a number of different things that have happened this week, the least of which has been the sudden realization that I am yet another year closer to senility. But there's more and many more things more interesting to you than me getting more aged :)
MySQL 5.1.29
First off there's this small release of MySQL 5.1.29 RC. So what's the big deal? Well, after 29 releases, this is going to be the last RC release as my colleague Giuseppe Maxia has noted in his blog.
That's a pretty big deal, for you, for me, for everyone.
Now you may be wondering, how to follow the releases at MySQL. I suggest you use your trust RSS reader to subscribe to the Latest MySQL …
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When I left MySQL, my main machine was my old black 32-bit
macbook which had to be kept attached to power supply (you know
how difficult that is to guarantee, with the mag power adapter!)
because of the earlier cordial-in-the-night incident (insurance
covered that but the replacement was MySQL's of course).
I wanted a new 64-bit macbook, but was holding out for the new
chipset that would support 4GB. It arrived, but local stores
couldn't get it yet whereas the Apple store had it in stock -
caveat, only the stock version could be shipped fairly quickly.
Fine for RAM I was sourcing 2x2GB sticks for it elsewhere
already. The HD was a tad painful, going down from upgraded 120G
in my old one to about 100G in the new stock version.
Now, for OurDelta testing foo I have a nice box in my
office with lots of cores, RAM and diskspace. So when I'm home or
at least online, that also works …
Now why would I do that, especially when my blog is syndicated through it?
Simple. I’m always trying to cut back on RSS and other “stuff.” Less is more. But don’t worry — I subscribed again. Only this time, I subscribed to my own filtered version of it! I built it [...]
I'm sitting here at OSBC. I was invited to speak on the "working
at an open source company" panel.
Right now am listening to a talk about the story of the founding
of BSD, and the invention/discovery of "strangers will send you
patches", and the development of the contributor, captain,
integrator system. And then a description of how to deal with a
contributor community.
The previous talk was by Eric Allman about running a company and
dealing with investors vs founders.
Before that was by someone from INGRES about "Myths of Open
Source".
I missed BrianB's talk, because figuring out how to park here at
UC Berkeley took too long.
Going in to this most recent gig, it was thought that it was
going to be a heavy user of MySQL Proxy, which thus would involve
a fair amount of custom Lua programming.
As the client and I talked and whiteboarded out the design, it
evolved into being very complex. It was going to be a challenge,
and had a lot of moving parts.
As big and expensive as it was becoming, it still was much
simpler and cheaper than what *r*cl* had quoted, they wanted a
mid seven digits, PER YEAR, in license fees, for their
proposal.
Anyway, as this thing grew on the board, something started
itching in my head, and I sat back, looked at it again, and said
"we're recreating the binlogs and the replication threads".
The client was very familiar with replication in Oracle and in MS
SQL, but not at all so for MySQL, especially it's robustness in
the face of lag and link failure. E.G, just let them lag, and let
the …