links for 2010-10-10: If Oracle and MySQL had a child; AWS weakness a strength?; JavaOne content will cost you; Android revolution; Short-term focus hurts R&D

• If Oracle and MySQL had a child - Why not get the best of both worlds with PostgreSQL?
• Amazon Web Services: an instance of weakness as strength - Most people like simple evolution when making change in the enterprise.
  
• JavaOne 2010 content costs money? - In the past, the content from JavaOne was generally made available for free to the community, but the link seems to indicate it now costs $245 or you have to have been an attendee.  Past content on SDN only includes 2008 and 2009.  To be fair, there is still a lot of free content but this seems to be a change.
• The five factors powering the Android revolution
  
• R&D: Short-term focus, cynicism hampers us - Who else will innovate just for the sake of doing so?
  

links for 2010-10-04: Forking of Java; Stewardship of Java

• Is it time to fork Java? - Clearly disappointed by JavaOne (JavaHalf?), Greg proposes "Lava".
• Time to fork Java? - Sacha's response.  Provides some good history on the issues and highlights Oracle's flip-flopping positions.  "when ORCL’s lawyers have the same opinion two-weeks in a row, the only conclusion you can draw is that they changed their mind an even number of times."
• Java: The Unipolar Moment - James points out many instances where single vendor stewardship is not the norm and why that can't be the case for Java.

links for 2010-09-30: Gosling on JavaOne; MySQL prices going up; Gmail capitulates; MySQL vs PostgreSQL performance; PHP SDK for AWS

• JavaOne was fun - Some interesting, albeit likely biased, observations.
• Oracle raising prices on MySQL - Rationalizing the pricing to Oracle's way is to be expected, but the removal of Basic and Silver is important and what the prices actually are will be doubly so.
• Gmail unthreads messages - I prefer threaded views and find search works much better than sort.
• MySQL vs PostgreSQL performance - Simply confirms what I think we all knew: PostgreSQL is much faster for inserts, MySQL slightly faster for selects.
• New AWS SDK for PHP - Adds to the existing Java and .NET SDKs.

links for 2010-09-03: Google not at JavaOne; Historical NASA pictures

• A Story of O - A little background on Google's not attending JavaOne.  An interesting set of comments.  Companies and developers can vote with their pocketbooks and feet.
• Flickr gives NASA's historical photos some distribution - Some great pictures.
  

links for 2010-08-30: Background on Oracle vs Google; Google won't be at JavaOne; YouTube movies?; US Open tennis starts today

• Software War Pits Oracle vs Google - More background on what will prove to be a very interesting case.
• Google Bails on Oracle/Sun Java One Conference - A natural, but unfortunate, reaction.
• YouTube eyes pay-per-view films - I'm kind of surprised it has taken this long.
• US Open Tennis - Starts today, for what is usually a great two weeks of tennis.

links for 2010-05-17: Google I/O is the new JavaOne; Government using the Cloud; Caspio = Access + Cloud?; Jobs engages blogger

• Google I/O is the new JavaOne - Google I/O is this week.  Will it become "the" developer conference superseding the new, not at Moscone, JavaOne Oracle puts on in the fall?
• Recovery.gov finds new home in the cloud - It is good to see the government saving the taxpayer a little money by using the cloud.
• Is Caspio The "Microsoft Access" Of The Cloud? - Interesting tool for simple query (and presumably full CRUD) applications.
  
• VMware/SpringSource buys GemStone - I worked with their Smalltalk offerings in the past and really liked them.
• Steve Jobs engages blogger via e-mail - Kudos to Jobs for engaging, but I still think Apple goes too far in "protecting" their users.