Back In The Blog Chair

Stack + Macro = "Stacro": A note to professional OSS and Redmond too

James Governor's MonkChips — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:14:33 GMT

I had been meaning to write up OpenLogic for a while. These guys are smart and have a cool approach to managing open source distributions and interdependencies.Anyway, Stephen got there first, which is good because it means I can focus...

re: Back In The Blog Chair

jasonmatusow — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 03:35:21 GMT

You can tell that I read and talk to much with Matt. But this is a good posting on the integration point.

http://asay.blogspot.com/2005/09/open-sources-integration-quandary.html

Jason

Open Source vs Integration Innovation

tecosystems — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:01:34 GMT

Given the fact that we chatted about exactly this subject at OSCON back in August, Jason's probably not going to be surprised by the fact that I don't align with his view of open source and integration. Oversimplifying for the...

OSS and Integration...again

Matusow's Blog — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:52:52 GMT

Stephen O'Grady posted a great response to my earlier posting on integration issues for OSS projects....

Sybase news (corrigendum)

Wesley Parish — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:58:44 GMT

I think you're a little inaccurate there. To quote:

"In other news, Sybase CEO John Chen sat down for an interview with CNET and stated someting interesting. They are providing an OSS version of their DB. He acknowledges the fact that MySQL and CA's Ingres were influential in this decision."

The blurb on the http://news.com.com/1606-2-5680285.html?tag=st.rb site, says:

"John Chen sits down in a Face to Face interview with ZDNet editor-in-chief Dan Farber to talk about Sybase's high-end database, offered for free in a limited version to mainly small and midsize businesses."

It says nothing about source being offered under an OSI-compliant license.

In other words, they are offering a free-as-in-no-charge up-to-date version of their premier database system on the Linux platform to people who ask, in order to build their installed base.

Not that different from Microsoft giving Internet Explorer away to build an installed base. Nothing wrong with that.

As far as OSS database systems goes, the biggest player in lines of code and Enterprise presence would have to be CA's Ingres; the biggest player in terms of installed base would have to be MySQL.

BEA: The Growing Stable/A Hard Act To Swallow (notes following BEA World 2006 in Prague)

James Governor's MonkChips — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:41:33 GMT

BEA's management team deserves a lot of credit for the company's performance during the industry downturn which began in 2001 and apparently ended this year. The company isn't just financially stable, but is now on the trail to becoming a two billion

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