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Why did sun really buy MySQL ?

... I can't. It might ofcourse be the fresh MySQL users that Sun brought in on their platform that started out blogging but hey .. I`m ... to suddenly move to an other operating system. So is Sun trying to Lock In a community ? Other people would call it a Jail, ...

Blog entry - Kris Buytaert - 10/19/2008 - 13:29 - 12 comments

Helping Sun to figure out what it wants to do when it grows up

... now I read Maddog's article titled Navigating by the Sun Bull's Eye .. I loved reading every second of it as it is so true ... that we'd love to help, but it really is time for Sun to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up :) It's fear it's ...

Blog entry - Kris Buytaert - 03/16/2008 - 16:49 - 0 comments

How Sun Will be rescued

... probably ranted a bit too much on the marketing push that Sun has been trying to make into the Open Source community. The economical situation isn't really perfect so Sun does deserve some credit too. Yesterday Techcrunch published an ...

Blog entry - Kris Buytaert - 10/31/2008 - 14:57 - 3 comments

The Eclipse of Sun

... the past decade I've had a love-hate relation ship with Sun. Sun has done a lot of good things in their open source journey such as MySQL, ...

Blog entry - Kris Buytaert - 12/07/2008 - 00:29 - 5 comments

Scaling Drupal

... you could create a redundant fileserver with NFS (drbd, Sun cluster...). We'll also add reverse proxies (Squid or Varnish, no mod ...

Blog entry - Kris Buytaert - 01/27/2009 - 14:39 - 29 comments

Teaching Sun the Open Source Dance

Over the past couple of days Sun has been getting a lot of feedback on it's behaviour with open source. So there is Amanda McPherson trying to teach Sun that the L in LAMP really stands for Linux. And then there was Roy T. ... it's not like they will loose customers over it. When Sun says that Linux is the new Solaris their customers will just follow. ...

Blog entry - Kris Buytaert - 05/29/2008 - 13:52 - 0 comments

On the Future of Lustre

So Sun bought ClusterFS . I`m wondering what their focus will be now. What will ... keeping an eye on it (cluster, gfs, ha, linux, lustre, sun) ...

Blog entry - Kris Buytaert - 08/18/2009 - 09:56 - 0 comments

On Monty Leaving Sun

... without any need of differentiation on the source code. Sun has been considering opening up the server development, but the pace has been too slow. In short, Sun isn't open enough. I think I've said that enough , it's typically more ...

Blog entry - Kris Buytaert - 02/06/2009 - 00:19 - 2 comments

Sun relicenses Java under GPL

In Sun relicenses Java under GPL Tom wonders who cares. Not what we care ... shebang in one pull surely beats having to go to java.sun.com then figure out under which section they have been hiding the JDK ...

Story - Kris Buytaert - 11/14/2006 - 15:36 - 1 comment

On Open Source vs open source

... community to my notes. Then try to understand why Sun announces this , now I wonder .. what are they going to pay people for ... make the right choices .. I really do ! But I'm afraid Sun still doesn't understand how to play with the opensource crowd. They try ...

Blog entry - Kris Buytaert - 05/29/2008 - 13:52 - 3 comments