Today Nokia announced their intention to acquire an open source tools manufacturer, Trolltech.
Trolltech is an open source company by virtue of their dual-licensing of the QT tool kit that is used by a number of products but probably most notably the KDE desktop. Though they do dual license and sell commercial proprietary products as well.
The Nokia deal was reported in kroners …
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Here are a few upcoming open source conferences worth paying attention to: - SugarCRM Developers Conference, Feb 6-8, San Jose, CA - PHP Quebec, March 12-14, Montreal, Canada - EclipseCon, March 17-20, Santa Clara, CA - OSBC, March 25-26, San Francisco, CA - ApacheCon Europe, April 7-11, Amsterdam, NL - MySQL Conference & Expo, April 14-17, Santa Clara, CA We'll have MySQLers at most if not all of these events. If you're thinking of hitting your boss up for a conference registration and travel, look for the early registration deadlines. You can easily save a few hundred bucks by registering... READ MORE
A number of people have emailed me wondering why I haven't blogged about the Sun/MySQL deal. Well, I'm still working out my thoughts on that, so I'll leave it to another day. Besides, haven't there been enough blog posts about it already?!
As a PHP community member and a person who has been participating on MySQL's behalf in the much-maligned PDOv2 working group, there is a more important and pressing topic of conversation that I'd like to comment on. Namely, the recent events surrounding the publication of the FAQ about PDOv2. There are many different topics being bandied around the PHP community schoolyard — some on-topic, some wildly off-topic and tangential. These are the issues I think represent what the majority of conversations have been about:
There's been a lot of positive coverage of Sun's acquisition of MySQL last week (with one or two odd-ball conspiracy stories). To me the most significant element is that Sun has long recognized the disruptive nature of open source and is now leveraging that power as part of their overall strategy. Obviously, that's not new news. Sun has been doing this for several years with OpenSolaris, GlassFish, NetBeans, open sourcing Java, etc. The fact that both companies have bet on open source is key to the ongoing success of MySQL. I don't think MySQL would have ever sold to a... READ MORE
A reader commented that MySQL isn't "enterprise ready", to which another reader wrote: "I hate it when snobby DBAs or managers scoff at MySQL as if it isn't ready to play with the big boys. Google called, they'd like to loan you a clue." Valid point. But, I'm fairly certain that Google engineers could run a highly scalable computing system (whatever that is) using nothing more than OS/2, a paper clip, duct tape and maple syrup. I am not bashing MySQL in any way (I'm a happy user). I am however suggesting that the skills level inside an average IT... READ MORE
I thought I'd get a chance to do some more blogging on Sun's acquisition of MySQL last week, but I was focused internally at our company meeting, spending time with employees and working on our objectives for 2008. Needless to say it was a fun, but exhausting week. We'd been working with Sun on the deal for several weeks, but only a handful of people knew about it. So there were about 400 very surprised employees Wednesday morning when we announced the news. It's a lot of information to digest and we wanted to make sure everyone got answers to... READ MORE
Jonathan has a nice post with additional explanations on the MySQL deal, seeing as one or two folks have questioned it. (Note that the second link is for your amusement via Sun's Simon Phipps blog). Jonathan writes: "Where are the revenue synergies? The more interesting question is "where aren't the synergies?" Wherever MySQL is deployed, whether the user is paying for software support or not, a server will be purchased, along with a storage device, networking infrastructure - and over time, support services on high value open platforms. Last I checked, we have products in almost all those categories. In... READ MORE
I was trying to explore alternatives for slave/master architectures and gave a try to federated tables. No this post is not about Sun buying mySql.
So I compiled a fresh 5.0.51 on two boxes. It’s quite easy to setup, all it takes is the main server and the sub servers to support federated engine.Only trick is to [...]