One of the curses, I suppose, of knowing one’s high-tech history is that way too many news items cause me to go: "Here we go again!" The proximate tidbit this time is, of course, the news that HP has acquired services giant EDS for $13.9 billion. Various news organizations had previously pegged the deal value [...] ...
Six months back, I criticized OpenOffice.org as having execrable release notes and project description pages (”possibly the worst you will see, on any development project, anywhere”). This is fairly important, because one of the issues of creating and nurturing a community is communicating with, and motivating, that community. That’s hard to do when your missives [...] ...
I’m out at JavaOne in San Francisco this week and one discussion that I’ve heard popping up with some regularity is "Do we need to do something to protect Open Source in a Cloud Computing world?" I’ve written about aspects of this topic at length previously. However, given that this is an area that is [...] ...
On April 29, I gave a Webinar for Jupitermedia entitled “Five Virtualization Trends to Watch.” The topics I highlighted were those that represent “the next phase” of server virtualization. That is, they go beyond basic server consolidation and local, limited uses of migration technologies like VMotion.
Virtualization is shifting from point products to solution portfolios, ...
I’ve been characterizing Sun Microsystems as “finding a floor, then building on-ramps.” The “on ramps” here are the means to bring new users, developers, and customers into the fold. The MySQL acquisition is the most potent recent example, but moving Solaris, Java, OpenOffice.org, and other software assets to Open Source isn’t far behind. But before [...] ...