If you've been reading this blog for a while you'll know that
for the past decade I've had a love-hate relation ship with Sun.

Sun has done a lot of good things in their open source journey such as MySQL, openOffice , Virtualbox and opensourcing Java. But on the other hand they had troubles with creating really organic opensource.

I've always wondered why a company that bought StarDivision because it was cheaper than buying the MS Office license keeps wasting money on building it's own operating systems, albeit in a pretty open model, but with zero to no relevant community.

Yes I've ranted on their marketing boys and girls when they polluted forums I liked. But no I don't want this to happen. (Slicing up Sun)

However I`m in fear it actually might happen, the funny thing is that I already mentioned the same idea in offline conversations …

As open source vendors restrict features to their enterprise products, are the development-related benefits of the OSS business model retained? READ MORE

The latest report from DBMS guru Donald Feinberg on open source database growth. READ MORE

Startups are increasing their use of open source products in some shape or fashion. Can we correlate these actions with the demise of the traditional software business model? READ MORE

A Microsoft veteran believes that open source is the future of software. Why is this news? READ MORE

BusinessWeek declares the open source model is broken. Or did Stuart Cohen miss out on the fact that companies are already making and saving money with open source? READ MORE

Perfect is the enemy of good enough. This is fertile soil for why people choose to use the simpler, functional, cheaper open source cousins of proprietary feature function behemoths. Don’t get me wrong - too few features / crappy performance you lose customers because you’re not helping people solve problems if you lack too many features.

Recently, I observed a thread at the blog of Goban Saor entitled “Open Source Metrics.”

It basically has turned into a discussion which keeps creeping up about which tool is faster: Talend or Kettle. Which leads me to ask the question: Who Friggin’ Cares?

I’m a Kettle Expert so I think Kettle is Wicked Fast.
If I were a Talend Expert I’d think Talend is Wicked Fast.

Performance for customers who are focused on results, and aren’t …

Q&A with Bruce Eckel, author of "Thinking in Java" READ MORE

The 2009 MySQL Conference has closed it’s submissions for papers. This year the motto is “Innovation Everywhere”.

Last weekend’s Open SQL Camp in Charlottesville, Virginia, we had the chance to talk about the movements in the MySQL ecosystem. I was impressed to get the details of the Percona MySQL Patches, but focus is still in 5.0. (Welcome to the Percona team Tom Basil) Our Delta is attempting now to integrate patches into various MySQL branches. There was an opening keynote by Brian Aker from Drizzle, and Drizzle team Jay Pipes and Stewart Smith on hand. It was also announced that MySQL 5.1.30 will be GA, available in early December.

But these …

Last weekend I attended the OpenSQL Camp in Charlottesville, VA. There was a great turnout, and Baron did an excellent job organizing it! I saw a few folks I met at OSCON over the summer, along with meeting many new people. What a great group - intelligent, fun, and know how to get things done. I had some great conversations, especially with Brian, Stewart, Arjen, Patrick, Mark, and Jay. The food was great too, I was a bit worried about …