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Friday, May 20th, 2005

Pitfalls of open source

Davanum Srinivas: “Moral of the story, don’t write open source code, apparently this is an easy task…and if you do in spite of my advice (oh man! you are in trouble), you need to make sure there is enough documentation that is up-to-date and *BE SURE* to answer *ALL* emails.”

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Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

Gosling out of Harmony

Cubicle Muses: Gosling out of Harmony: “As I said, I can respect Sun’s decision to license Java as they have. I have no problems with Sun’s approach myself and I work with Java and open source every day. I understand that Sun wants to be ‘excruciatingly careful’ with maintaining and controlling Java and that’s fine. […]

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Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

Would Microsoft buy Red Hat?

Conceivable? |  Doc Searls’ IT Garage: “When I read Microsoft-Red Hat Warming Trend on CNET, a question leaped to mind:

Would Microsoft buy Red Hat?

Money surely wouldn’t be a problem. PR surely would be.”

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Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

IBM Acquires Gluecode Software

Richard Monson-Haefel : “This acquisition of Gluecode by IBM is, in my opinion, a positive sign that vendors are taking that strategy seriously. The bottom line is this: JBoss has effectively commoditized the J2EE application server market so it makes sense for vendors to back their favorite open source effort and focus their attention […]

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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

IBM buys application management firm GlueCode

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters): “International Business Machines Corp. on Tuesday said it has acquired Gluecode Software, an open-source firm that helps companies manage business applications on their office networks.”

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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

Developing a Common Corporate Framework for your Java Applications

Timothy Fisher: “The development of a corporate framework is one area where I would specifically recommend against using a commercial product, especially one for which you do not have access to the source code. What goes into your framework will hopefully become the basis for all of your other enterprise applications. Do you really want […]

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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

GPL, FSF & RMS: Defendents or opcodes?

Cameron Purdy: “Despite what most people think, GPL was never about open source software or free software; it was always about software freedoms and also about the corresponding responsibilities accepted by the user of the software.”

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