We reported recently on Red Hat’s revenue growth and deferred revenue. One of the things I have been looking at recently is the slowdown in Red Hat’s growth in recent years, and the opportunities that the company has to improve that growth.
For some perspective it is worth noting that while Red Hat’s revenue has been growing steadily:
The rate of growth has been in decline for some time:
We have also noted (451 Group clients only) that the company will in …
[Read more]Some time ago I posted a compilation of applications and programming languages that provide an API to connect to the MySQL Server. As it turned out, I forgot a few that I would like to mention here:
We’re proud to announce the first service release of our current
GA product MySQL Workbench 5.1. This maintenance release
encompasses a number of stability, performance and quality
improvements.
We were able to fix 56 bugs – as always, details on latest
changes can be found on our Releases Page.
Please head over to our download page and fetch this new update:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html
In addition to the improvements on the application, we also updated our packaging procedure to provide a more up to date selection of packages for recent distributions. Along with the Windows and OSX (intel) binaries we now provide binaries for the following Linux distributions:
Ubuntu 8.04 …
[Read more]Peter Fenton’s open source investment tips. Boxee raises $6m. And more.
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Digesting the VMware-SpringSource deal
In the wake of VMware’s acquisition of SpringSource the WSJ
examined Peter
Fenton’s open source investment portfolio and what he looks for
in an open source vendor. Meanwhile Matt Asay noted that VMware’s
purchase of SpringSource is the first big acquisition of a
company based on an Apache license, while Charles Babcock
reported …
Red Hat is celebrating the 10 year anniversary of its initial public offering. An anniversary to be proud of for Red Hat, but one that has given The VAR Guy pause for thought about the relative success of open source in the past 10 years.
“Would anyone have predicted that no additional open source companies would launch IPOs over the next decade? Ten years without an open source IPO … amazing and somewhat depressing for open source business advocates,” writes the VAR Guy.
It is somewhat depressing that there are not more public open source vendors. However, the statement that there have been …
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Every once in a while a programmer finds himself in need of a
tool that allows him to edit very large text files. By large, I
mean several gigabytes. For DBAs it is common, especially if
you’re using MySQL dumps a lot. What do you do if you’re doing
this on Windows?
If you’re using Notepad++ or any other Scintilla
derivatives, you’re out of luck - those editors are not cut out
for this kind of work. Using Visual Studio also won’t work. There
are some partial solutions just for viewing, like LTFViewer – but it cannot handle large files
without line breaks, something common in MySQL dumps. So what do
you do?
The answer is simple and somewhat unexpected – use Vim for Windows. …
If you're interested in ways to back up stuff, and haven't tried Dar yet, here's an article on using Dar that I've just published on my personal blog. In short, Dar works very much like Tar, but it's got a built-in feature for slicing up archive files which comes handy when you want to distribute backup files across several media, for example DVDs or hard disks.
If you're interested in ways to back up stuff, and haven't tried Dar yet, here's an article on using Dar that I've just published on my personal blog. In short, Dar works very much like Tar, but it's got a built-in feature for slicing up archive files which comes handy when you want to distribute backup files across several media, for example DVDs or hard disks.
If you're interested in ways to back up stuff, and haven't tried Dar yet, here's an article on using Dar that I've just published on my personal blog. In short, Dar works very much like Tar, but it's got a built-in feature for slicing up archive files which comes handy when you want to distribute backup files across several media, for example DVDs or hard disks.
Monty Widenius dissects MySQL’s dual license. Intuit moves to the EPL. And more.
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# Monty Widenius blogged about the apparent changes to the dual licensing of MySQL.
# Intuit announced that its code.intuit.com will be moving from CPL to EPL.
# Matt Asay asked whether Google’s open source advocacy might be a scheme to lower the value of patents.
# Vision Mobile’s Andreas Constantinou explained the differences between open source …
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