Mårten Gustaf Mickos - formerly MySQL CEO and now open source strategist at Sun until the end of Sun’s fiiscal 3rd quarter 2009 - and Ulf Michael Videnius (aka Monty) - MySQL co-founder and CTO, now driving the development of Maria, the new storage engine Maria - both quit Sun Microsystems.
Monthly Archive for February, 2009
Hyperic, the provider of open source web infrastructure management software, on Monday announced the addition of an advanced business intelligence platform (Hyperic Operations IQ) to its web application performance monitoring offering.
After receiving growing attention in Europe, Hyperic lower the bar to systems management utility embedding the Jaspersoft Professional Edition into the Hyperic IQ framework, enabling executives to read web performance data.
Assoli, the long-live Italian association devoted to the promotion of free software, last year asked Italian candidates to sign a letter where they agree to promote the use of free software.
Given the great results, yesterday Assoli launched a platform named “Caro Candidato” (eng: dear candidate) that will be used from now on for every Italian election.
Continue reading ‘Italian Elections: Which Candidate Can you Trust?’
Sun reported results for its second quarter of fiscal 2009, and Dana Blankenhorn, Matt Asay and the Var Guy all agree that when it comes to open source Sun is on the rise. Simon Phipps states that open source is driving the new Sun, and Jonathan Schwartz keeps saying that open source is key.
The value of the Sun brand maybe the reason behind the growth in MySQL billings, but we don’t know actually what ’MySQL/infrastracture’ means, and drawing conclusions is a guessing game.
Continue reading ‘Sun Open Source Business: Is Sun Finding its Way?’
OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 release note
1146 giorni con OpenOffice (1146 days with OpenOffice) - The latest version of OpenOffice 3 Soluzioni a raccolta - an Italian OpenOffice.org FAQ built with the help of the community - is available for download. It includes more than 2000 questions in about 750 pages (only Italian).
Talend Update: Open Source Data Integration - James Governor mentions the importance of crowd sourcing in the OpenOffice.org community for contributions not related to coding.
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