This was bound to happen, of course. Things were going too well. At a time when Google is activating 200,000 Android phones a day, and Android has overtaken the iPhone in terms of U.S.
Aug
17
2010
Jul
23
2010
The history and accomplishments attributed to VistA, the
Veterans
Administration's core administrative software, mark it as one of
the
most impressive software projects in history. Still, lots of
smart
people in the health care field deprecate VistA and cast doubt
that it
could ever be widely adopted. Having spent some time with people
on
both sides, I'll look at their arguments in this blog, and
then
summarize other talks I heard today at the
href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010">Open Source
Convention
health care track.
Yesterday, as
href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/07/day-one-of-the-health-care-it.html">I
described in my previous blog, we heard an overview of trends
in
health care and its open source side in particular. Two open
source
free software projects offering electronic health records
were
presented, …
Jul
19
2010
There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra AppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. In open source there are Eucalyptus, Cloud.com, Open Nebula and …
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Jul
11
2010
One of the significant benefits of MySQL is it’s ease of use. Generally already installed on most Linux systems, MySQL can be installed by a single command if not yet present. On Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 you can use the following commands to check for MySQL, configure your yum repository and install MySQL.
# Check if already installed $ rpm -qa | grep -i mysql # Configure yum repository on new server $ su - $ cd /tmp $ wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el5.repo $ sed -e "s/enabled=0/enabled=1/" public-yum-el5.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-el5.repo # Install MySQL $ yum install -y mysql-server mysql # Start and test MySQL Instance $ /etc/init.d/mysqld start $ mysql -uroot -e "SELECT VERSION" +-----------+ | VERSION() | +-----------+ | 5.0.77 | +-----------+
You can find more …
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Jul
07
2010
A lot has been written for and against open core now. Yet in the end, a couple tweets can catch all that is needed:
scurryn @h_ingo -- So as long as 'an open core vendor' doesn't call themselves 'an open source vendor' then everything's fine?
h_ingo @scurryn: pretty much. I think I owe everyone one more blog post to answer that question with a few more details.
(Twitter)
This is that blog post.
Jul
05
2010
|
I joined the number of those who have a public opinion on the
open core debate. Roberto Galoppini has graciously accepted to host a post on this topic in his Commercial Open Source Software blog. Please read it directly from there: Open to the core - The pragmatic freedom Enjoy! |
Jul
04
2010
My ongoing dialogue with Matthew Aslett inspired me to read more of his recent writings. An excellent piece Do not sell anything to your community is based on a blog post by Stephen Walli.
Inspired by Stephen, I also looked into a set of slides I recently created and will try that style for this post...
Aslett and Stephen make a great point:
the conversion of community users into paying customers has long been a concern for open source-related vendors. It has also long been a source of friction, with vendors that offer proprietary extensions being accused of “bait and switch” or otherwise undermining the value of the open source software in an attempt compel community …
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Jul
02
2010
There’s lots of buzz lately about the so-called “open-core” business model of Marten Mickos’s new employer. But this is nothing new. Depending on how you define it, InnoDB is “open-core,” and has been for a long time. The InnoDB Hot Backup (ibbackup) tool was always closed-source. Did anyone ever cry foul and claim that this made InnoDB itself not open-source, or accuse Innobase / Oracle of masquerading as open-source? I don’t recall that happening, although sometimes people got suspicious about the interplay between the backup tool and the storage engine. Generally, though, the people I know who use InnoDB Hot Backup have no gripes about paying for it.
What is the difference between open-source with closed-source accessories, and …
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Jul
02
2010
The Maatkit article on Wikipedia was removed some time ago, after being deemed not notable. I believe this is no longer the case. It’s hard to find a credible book published on MySQL in the last few years that doesn’t mention Maatkit, there’s quite a bit of blogging about it from MySQL experts and prominent community members, and the toolkit is certainly in wide use — it’s important enough that notable companies are supporting its development. It’s available through every major Unix-like operating system’s package repository. On Debian, it’s actually part of the mysql-client package, so if you install MySQL, you automatically get Maatkit too. I believe it’s probably the second most important set of MySQL command-line tools; the most …
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Jul
02
2010
Oh my. I was outside painting my house for a few days, and when I return back online I discover that now everyone is having an opinion on the open core business model. Since some participants are still trying to promote it as a valid open source business model, let's see what everyone is saying and highlight any pitfalls being offered...