Date: 07/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

I believe that when vendors build proprietary Grid products on open source, everyone benefits.

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Date: 07/05/05     Keywords: linux

Estimating the "market share" (more appropriately mindshare) of various Linux distributions is difficult and, some say, fairly useless.

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Date: 07/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

Will our children have one Internet to go to, or just the Internet their government lets them go to?

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Date: 07/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

Here's a good topic for debate as we approach Independence Day. As I was doing my morning reading, I came across a link to an interview with Eric S. Raymond, where he says "we don't need the GPL anymore." That certainly caught my attention. Here's part of what Raymond had to say about the [...]

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Date: 06/30/05     Keywords: google

We were talking the other day about how, when a company opens its code up to enhancement by others it needs to be prepared for the Law of Unintended Consequences.Well you might designate this as Prosecution Exhibit B. It seems that when Google launched its new video search service it also offered a free Video [...]

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Date: 06/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

As cellular carriers gained more of the market, with their faster "broadband" offerings they threatened the basic end-to-end concept. Now the first crack has appeared in that wall.

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Date: 06/29/05     Keywords: web

Ever since the Web was spun users have been taking what they were given, adding to it, enhancing it, and creating value.

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Date: 06/29/05     Keywords: database

Oracle likes to hire people in their late twenties or early thirties who combine attitude with some sales skills, but do you know anyone in that age bracket who doesn't work for Oracle and nevertheless favors the company's database products? I don't.

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Date: 06/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

I fear many companies tip-toeing into the open source world expect this to be a one-way street. That is, you write stuff that I like and I'll take all the benefit, plus I'll control what you write at the same time.

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Date: 06/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

"This volume needs to be embraced and managed because it cannot be vanquished. And a tone must be set that allows future innovation to stimulate negotiation and not just confrontation."

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Date: 06/28/05     Keywords: microsoft

Dave Duffield, one of the key people behind Peoplesoft is apparently starting a new business aimed at developing and supporting a new ERP/SCM package that mixes open source with traditional business methods to compete with Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft

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Date: 06/27/05     Keywords: no keywords

This may be an even better question. Is open source necessary in closing the digital divide?This question does not come out of the blue. Increasingly, governments and interest groups are focusing on open source as a way to enable mass participation in the connected world. The Digital Divide Network, a project of the Education Development Center [...]

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Date: 06/27/05     Keywords: no keywords

In other words, buying a 32 way x460 and using Xen to partition that into eight virtual four way boxes would cost about $200,000 more than a rack with eight four way servers while reducing your total potential performance by about a third

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Date: 06/25/05     Keywords: no keywords

Every single one of the accounting and management services firms out there is going to be looking for a deliverable package - an offering they can sell but not be sued over.

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Date: 06/24/05     Keywords: google

I've been meaning to mention Google's "Summer of Code" for some time. Google is sponsoring work on open source projects by paying students a $4,500 stipend to dig in and work on projects. Google isn't alone here: A number of open source projects have "bounty" programs to pay for features that are needed or [...]

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Date: 06/24/05     Keywords: linux

Bear in mind that the cell consists of an Altivec equiped PPC based main processor controlling an eight way on-board grid. Getting Linux and MacOS X to run on the main processor is apparently relatively easy, but getting beyond that to tapping the the enormous potential offered by the grid correspondigly difficult.

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Date: 06/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

The point is that we who report on the open source world, as well as those of you who live in it, have a natural impatience. We see the glass as half-empty all the time. But it's also half-full.

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Date: 06/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

These numbers lead to an interesting question. Since "everyone knows" that Pentiums are faster and cheaper than powerPC chips, how come they seem capable of only about two thirds as much work even when run at a nearly a third more cycles per second?

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Date: 06/22/05     Keywords: software

Software patents are still in the news. The European patent directive continues to lumber forward, despite overwhelming opposition from groups on all corners -- excepting the big software companies that will win big if sofware patents become law in Europe as well as the U.S. Not surprisingly, Richard Stallman has no kind words for software [...]

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Date: 06/22/05     Keywords: mysql, sql, linux

There's an untold story here, by the way: all the other hardware vendors are reporting their results using Linux. Put Debian with mySQL on this machine, and you'd probably break a $1.20 -and an Apple X-serve using lots of RAM could probably break one dollar because its X-RAID array is so cheap.

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