In this article, Shai Agassi predicts that the open source database MySQL will be certified to run SAP by the end of the year.
Category Archives: Remaindered
Red Hat scoops up JBoss
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Port25 : A Look Inside Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab (Part 1)
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Take a look at Port25 : A Look Inside Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab (Part 1). Microsoft has got quite a lab started.
Subversion 1.3.1 released
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The Subversion team has announced the release of Subversion 1.3.1. Files can be found in their download area.
Zimbra – Blog – A Pint of ALE – Ajax Linking and Embedding
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Zimbra – Blog – A Pint of ALE – Ajax Linking and Embedding. Interesting article. I didn’t know about “design mode” in recent browsers, but I tried it in Firefox this morning and it worked.
17 Year Old Creates Flickr Competitor
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From Slashdot: “Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch has an article up on a new Flickr competitor called Zooomr. The interesting thing about all of this that it was developed in only three months by a 17 year old and to top it all off, the site is currently localized in 16 languages”. The site is “experiencing high volumes” since appearing on Slashdot and is being moved to a larger data center. I’m looking forward to seeing it.
Geoff Smith: Not on the Radio Video
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Today’s Daily Source Code was a music video of a song by Geoff Smith called ‘Not on the Radio’. The video was created by his wife while he was out of town and stars his young daughter. Now this is a really cute video and a pretty good song to boot.
What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source
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OnLamp had an excellent article yesterday called What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source. The articles pretty long, but well worth the read. While there are obvious differences in the two types of projects (like budgets and deadlines), I still believe that corporations can move closer to the OSS model of development and get major productivity increases.
Dan Bricklin: When The Long Tail Wags The Dog
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Dan Bricklin has a great essay on the Long Tail, Hyperdifferentiation and general purpose tools called When The Long Tail Wags The Dog. Dan recently appeared on an episode [ mp3 ] of the Gillmor Gang where they talk about the concepts outlined in the essay.
Chuck Norris Facts
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Our son Jacob has been reading this list of Chuck Norris Facts over the last few days. I have to admit, they’re pretty damn funny. My favorite: If you Google search "Chuck Norris getting his ass kicked" you will generate zero results. It just doesn’t happen.
Bieber Labs 