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What I think about technology and business, especially with respect to the world's 'flattener' open source and the advance of object-oriented paradigms in computing, including in databases
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Interesting study by O2: http://www.o2.com/media/press_releases/latest_pr_14276.asp The study argues that the former thesis by US psychologist Stanley Milgram following a 1967 experiment has to be updated. Milgram found that, on average, people needed Read More...
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Buddy Dirk Riehle from SAP research has published an interesting paper on The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives . I agree with his approach that only an analysis of each stakeholder's specific perspective can identify Read More...
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Curt Schacker spins interesting thoughts about the embedded software industry on his blog . He claims that the industry is geared towards a service model, where vendors work against a Statement of work, rather than providing a product spec and an evaluable Read More...
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The open source year 2006 is coming to an end. While we often see things moving rather slowly from a day to day perspective, it is quite amazing how massively open source is changing the software industry by looking at the year in review: Open source Read More...
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Marten has compiled a nice list of 13 hybrid business models with open source in this blog : "1. Software is free but we need donations and subsidies to survive (Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse, ObjectWeb) 2. Software is free but we sell ads and placements Read More...
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I have finished the (B) case sequel of the Stanford research papers on MySQL's business model, currently available for Stanford affiliates only on: https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/cases/detail1.asp?Document_ID=2877 and soon also available at Harvard Business Read More...
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Back to Stanford GSB today to attend a class on MySQL, taught by Robert Burgelman, including the (B) case sequel of the already published case I co-authored in 2004. Marten was a class guest, and, as usual, it was big fun. One thought that I took away Read More...
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http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/06/small_is_the_ne.html I love it. How could I have missed this post from my brother in mind? "Small means you can tell the truth on your blog. Small means that you can answer email from your customers. Is Read More...
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A good reminder by Tim O'Reilly for managers of open source companies, like myself: Don't forget what differentiates you from the (non-open source) competition. What is your source of a sustainable competitive advantage? I share Tim's concern Read More...
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Yesterday, at dinner, I was spinning thoughts with Josh Berkus, lead of PostgreSQL, about how the database industry will look like in 10 years. We agreed that SMB, embedded and SaaS (for database services, too!) will be the growth areas whereas traditional Read More...
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http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/ten_questions_w_2.html Question: How do you make money with an Open Source product? Answer: We start by not making money at all— but by making users. The vast community of MySQL users and developers is what drives our Read More...
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db4objects has extended its circle of backers by 3 more Silicon Valley pundits: Jerry Fiddler, founding CEO of Wind River , the world's largest embedded software company and the first to pioneer off-the-shelf embedded software Tim Howes, CTO of Marc Andreessen's Read More...
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JavaOne has closed its doors -- and we're still waiting for Java to be open sourced... We saw a lot of embedded Java showcases. In particular, we liked the Java driven race course (reminding us of the Formula 1 Tutorial ), the railway control system (reminding Read More...
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Next act of Innovator's Dilemma at Oracle: Ellison, being quoted in February, that he wants to "embrace" open source, starts off by showing that he doesn't get it in the first place. When asked in the FT interview why he didn't buy open source companies Read More...
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I had blogged and spoken about the inherent incompatibility between Open Source businesses and VC funding previously and we have sticked to this assumption all along. Successful people as different as Linus Thorvalds and Mark Leslie, founding CEO of Veritas Read More...
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