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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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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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A short note in Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained on a CFO's comment, that XP was similar to the Toyota Production System (TPS) sparked my interest to read more about the TPS and reconcile it with some firsthand experience working as a supplier Read More...
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It always takes a while to realize that you are freed, once chains have been taken off. But now individuals at db4objects incl. myself start to realize that the 'flat world' model which enables our distributed and extremely global business model also 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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I had the honor to be invited as a speaker to FOSS.IN, India's premier open source conference, which takes place this weekend in Bangalore. Atul Chitnis and his team brought together this exiting event in a country where open source is still not as much 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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http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/21009 Open source software can help manage large software projects of globally distributed, individual contributors with virtually no management overhead. As open source blends more and more with the commercial Read More...
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Klaus pointed me at this interesting post by Stevey Yegge on Agile Programming. Stevey laudes Google's, startups' and open source projects' approach to "good agile" engineering and, I think, this resonates well how db4objects operates. I would like to Read More...
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Interesting article on Baidu in the NYT today on the significance of China, which, as the world's fast growing (large) economy, is seen as the next great Internet battleground -- an analysis in line with ours. I'm very happy with the progress we have 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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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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You might have seen the latest changes to db4o's developer community forums , which are now "growing up" to become a comprehensive collaboration platform for db4o-related projects of all kind. Despite the tempting Californian sun out there, the team has 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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