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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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I want to use this opportunity to thank all of you who have contributed to a great year 2007! In 2007, we have continued to make db4o's cutting edge persistence technology available to many more Java and .NET developers, growing our community of registered Read More...
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Though I am not utterly convinced yet that Google will be as successful to 'embrace' the handset with the Android/OHA initiative as it is with search&more in the web and on PCs, I am absolutely excited about the technical choices the developers made Read More...
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I am happy to announce my participation in the first international conference on object databases in this century, the icoodb 2008 , which our friend Stefan Edlich organizes at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin on March 13 and 14, 2008. I will Read More...
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We have been a pretty loyal customers to SFDC in the past, mostly because of the systems being up and running by the time that Sugar hit the marketplace, so that switching cost kept us from looking at alternatives, especially open source ones, so far. Read More...
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db4objects has raised additional funds to grow its operations in response to its fast growing user community and customer base. We're very happy to welcome Palo Alto-based Asset Management to our circle of investors and Skip Fleshman to our board of directors. 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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Roberto Zicari and his team at Copenhagen Business School have published a good paper to introduce a framework for analysis of Business Models for Open Source Software Products with Dual Licensing, showcasing MySQL and db4objects. http://www.dbis.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/publications/?mode=view&l=e&tmid=6&smid=23&SID=fa381d4ee4e054ed66e7eb63281b2ea 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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Another victory of open source over closed-source vendors is now official when Oracle dumped its Toplink O/R mapper (which had performed dismally against Hibernate) into the open source space. We have seen those dumpware projects before with Ingres, Versant's 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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From Charles Babcock in InformationWeek : 1. A thriving community A handful of lead developers, a large body of contributors, and a substantial--or at least motivated--user group offering ideas. 2. Disruptive goals Does something notably better than commercial 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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