Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
I’m kind of tired of these debates about whether something is open source enough or adheres to Stallman’esque values of what free software is supposed to adhere to. There is a further sense of irony that in order for something to be “open” it has to be approved by someone. Having said that, the OSI [...]
Dave Dargo is not happy with Oracle for announcing Red Hat support. Sometimes you just have to call bull*&#% on something and Oracle’s announcement on Linux is as great a candidate as any I’ve seen lately. Most of the pundits and analysts will focus on what this means for Red Hat and their valuation. In [...]
Oracle’s big conference is in SF this week, it’s really massive. But this is my favorite image (yes, I’m quite sure it photoshopped but funny nonetheless). Technorati Tags: Oracle
This rumor has been floating around for months, indeed, I kicked off the last cycle just a few months ago (for the record, my sources on that last rumor were some Novell executives and I triangulated it against a separate inquiry made by 2 people in the trade media – in case you wondering where [...]
There are a bunch of new features that make MySQL more secure and more reliable, and therefore even more “enterprise ready”. It’s ironic that so many people at SAP complain about sending revenue dollars to Oracle on the database side of the house, yet the one company that can truly disrupt Oracle’s database business is [...]
From the Q&A it appears that this is an attempt to simplify database and operating system management by integrating the admin consoles, as well as stripping out parts of the OS that are non-core for DB operations. This is probably going to be most successful in the “M” part of the SMB market, where there [...]
This seriously violates the intent and purpose of open source software, namely freedom from onerous restrictions imposed by the publisher. The slippery slope of telling organizations they can use open source software for some purposes but not others has no limits. What’s next, Wal-Mart can’t use GPU or pharmaceutical companies that animal test, or the [...]
It’s a rumor, and in all fairness my track record on the last couple has not been good, but according to a number of open source industry insiders, Oracle is going to announce at LinuxWorld tomorrow their own branded version of Linux based on the Red Hat distro. Previous speculation had them announcing something at [...]
The point about asymmetric competition is enormous, but Tim’s other comments about SaaS and Web 2.0 leave me a little confused. I’m quite sure there is overlap between these memes, but I’m also quite sure that there is no dependency. O’Reilly Radar > Four Big Ideas About Open Source: Asymmetric Competition. One of the most [...]
“I think Europe needs to reassert itself as the business center for Europe.” Okay, but where else would the business center for Europe be, somewhere not in Europe? The entire premise underlying this article is a bunch of crap, I mean who really cares where a company is located. I think it’s a little disingenuous [...]