Life can be stranger than fiction.
On Tuesday I was on a MySQL/SugarCRM webinar, and Jacob from
SugarCRM mentioned that their first translation was to French.
Then, Wednesday morning, I got a translation of the opentaps CRM module
into French . . . from the developers at Nereide and creators of
Neogia, a sister project of opentaps developed in
France.
What can I say?
Merci beacoup! Viva la France, la terre de liberte, egalite,
fraternite . . . et logiciel libre!
May
11
2006
May
11
2006
A tip posted by Heywood in the MySQL manual on how to export headings in your CSV export....
May
11
2006
Jay Pipes is a co-author of the recently published Pro MySQL recently spoke at Google on MySQL Performance Tuning Best Practices
You can check out a video of the presentation on Google Video
There is also a good video from Google called The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less.
May
11
2006
Matt Asay wrote an article about open source leakage. It’s quite good, and got me thinking.
First I thought, “Open source companies do not ‘lose’ revenue to non-paying customers, they just do not gain revenue from them.” But that’s based on the model of open-source software I have in my head that open source software usually starts out as a free, collaborative effort, and if enough folks get enough steam and come up with a business model (aka “a way to get paid”), then they form a company around the open source software.
Simplifying that model: open source software is free until it’s not.
Saying there is leakage does not do justice to the fact that the river flowed freely until the company came along and dammed up the river. Sure, maybe there’s a big leak, but there’s a lot more not leaking …
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May
11
2006
I’ve posted more there, check it out. Some from the recent MySQL UC, some from linux.conf.au, some from wherever.
May
11
2006
Greg Linden (Google watcher, search engine dude, ex-Amazon) saw Stewart Smith's talk on Google Video about MySQL cluster, and likes the idea. That's cool.
Time for more content on Google Video?
Tags for this post: mysql
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Related posts: MySQL cluster stores in RAM!; MySQL cluster stores in RAM!; …
May
11
2006
So today we launched Google Trends. Wow. I first played with it earlier
this week (that is, I wasn't on the team and didn't know it was
coming out) and I was utterly blown away with it. My first
reaction was "very cool" and my second reaction was "this is
extremely powerful!" [1]
In effect, Google Trends lets you see how search traffic for a
given term has changed over time. Even better, you can compare up
to five different search terms to see how the popularity of
things have changed over time. I'm amazed that this kind of tool
is now available to the general public (for free, no less!).
Obviously condensing a high volume of data into a small graph has
some lossage, but this is a hugely fascinating source of
information nonetheless.
For instance, a company near and dear to my heart made a
strategic decision several years ago about one of their products.
…
May
11
2006
A friend from a large enterprise (buy side of open source) sent me an email today. I had asked for his opinion on how to improve the Open Source Business Conference, a show I and a few friends founded a few years back. He said something in the course of his email that I found very interesting, if difficult to deliver:
[You need to show] [h]ow to decide which OpenSource product is really cool and does what it says on the tin and which is vapourware\aspirational.
What Open Source products have my competitors used? Successfully. And unsuccessfully....
I like the panels - especially when they disagree. One of the things I find a bit discomfiting at conferences is when all the shiny, happy people on a panel agree...
... the core thing that I try and get through to my senior, senior management is the understanding that Open Source is NOT a panacea; is not totally free; …
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May
11
2006
And the winner is….MySQL.
May
10
2006
As much as I tried to get the video of the May Boston MySQL meetup captured, edited, and exported the night of the meetup it just didn't happen. I got close, had it captured and edited but exporting from DV to a compressed Quicktime takes many hours. Even on the Intel dual core it took almost 12 hours of both CPUs going full speed (hey, that's slower than my old PowerBook G4).
I started using audio from the lapel mic but unplugged it when the Q/A started (early in the presentation). The sound is much better from the lapel mic but if there is back and forth with the audience the video misses half the conversation. In my experience asking the presenter to repeat the question doesn't work, even if they remember to repeat (which they usually don't) you miss any back and forth and have gaps of silence.
Anyhow, the video is up on Google ( …
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