September 2005 - Posts

27 September 2005
JBoss and Microsoft - Competitive Interop
A solid piece of work has been put into motion today by Microsoft and JBoss. Competitive interoperability is among the most difficult steps for organizations to take. The News First of all, if you haven’t seen the news yet , Microsoft and JBoss are announcing Read More...
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20 September 2005
Monster Blackberry
You have to be a resident of Oregon to understand true mania for berries. I know the Swedes love their lingonberries, and the folks in California think they have good strawberries – but you need to spend a summer in Oregon to understand how far people Read More...
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15 September 2005
The Role of the OSI
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols expressed his desire to see fewer OSI-approved licenses a couple of days ago. He applauds the decisions of Intel and Sun to retire certain licenses and then chastises CA, IBM, Lucent, and Nokia for not getting rid of their "vanity" Read More...
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14 September 2005
Micrix, or is it Micrux?
Bill Thompson , a technology analyst for the BBC, has an intelligent and entertaining column, and I recently stumbled across this entry . It is a wonderfully concise daydream about what it would mean for Microsoft to adopt, consume, digest, and release Read More...
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09 September 2005
Linux - the embrace and extend strategy
John Carroll had an interesting posting over at ZDNET today. He certainly hit a nerve given the talkback section. He was responding to posting by Paul Murphy , another ZDNET writer, in which the assertion was made that Linux needs to embrace its Unix-ness Read More...
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08 September 2005
OSS and Integration...again
Stephen O'Grady posted a great response to my earlier posting on integration issues for OSS projects. (There are also a few strong comments to his posting as well.) Apparently, I should have bought a beer or two for Stephen at OSCON rather than a bad Read More...
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02 September 2005
Mambo Jumbo - OSS Community vs. Commercial
Here is the article that got me thinking today . The community of devs working on Mambo have split off to create Joomla - the same product on a forked code base with a different future direction. The big beef was over the control of the project being Read More...
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01 September 2005
Back In The Blog Chair
Summer has been hard on my blogging. The sun seems to draw me away from my laptop and onto my mountain bike. Breaking my finger seems to have given me a boost back into the blogging chair (slower typing though) and away from the bike. I have a suggestion Read More...
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