links for 2010-05-25: MPEG-LA sued; Stonebreaker's VoltDB; Apple playing catch-up?; Android to be "Windows" of phones?

• Company Sues MPEG-LA, Claiming Antitrust Violations Over Patents - Is it just sour grapes from Nero or has MPEG-LA not held up their end of their deal with the DoJ?
  
• Database daddy goes non-relational on NoSQL fanbois - VoltDB, perhaps offering the best of both worlds?
  
• Google vs. Apple in the battle of the fanboys - Is Apple playing catch up?  This years WWDC will tell us for sure.
  
• Is Android destined to be the Windows of smartphones? - Informative piece that highlights Google getting into mobile back in 2005.
  

links for 2010-04-20: E-commerce witch hunt; ODF plugin no longer free; Oracle Java virtualization on JRockit, not Sun JVM; NoSQL and Cloud; iPhone leak loses customer

• Amazon's suit vs. North Carolina about preventing e-commerce witch hunt - Let's hope the witch hunt is prevented.
  
• $9,000 is the new 'free' for Oracle - This one doesn't make sense to me.  Why start charging, with a 100 user minimum, for something that isn't going to be adopted if it is charged for?  Especially since there is an open-source offering?  (I have not tried it)  How does this drive adoption?  And not only are they charging for it but are going to charge you maintenance too.  To top it off, the licensing information says there is a 90 day eval but you have to pay to download it.  Hmmm.
  
• Oracle Introduces Java Virtualization Solution for Oracle(R) WebLogic Suite - Sounds like a useful offering.  Perhaps it was in the works before the acquisition closed and is the reason, but what does it being based on JRockit say about the Sun JVM?
• NoSQL Needed For Cloud-Sized Data - Use the right tool for the right scenario.
  
• Peek at lost-and-found iPhone seals deal on Droid Incredible - The leak has affected at least one decision.

links for 2010-04-01: NoSQL = Manual vs Auto; Automated Journalism; Scatterplots with R; Will the cloud rain cash?; Bing killing OpenOffice?; Logarithms

• The NoSQL Debate: Automatic vs. Manual Transmission - A good metaphor.  Perhaps NoSQL should really be abbreviating "Not Only SQL" and not "No SQL"?
  
• Automated Journalism: In the US, algorithms are already reporting the news - Reposted from a comment to yesterday's links, very interesting.  "do algorithms steal the work of journalists - or help them to cope with information overload?"
• "Different" by Youngme Moon - Great way to promote a book, and piqued my interest in it.
• How to: make a scatterplot with a smooth fitted line - I did not know about R (probably should have), but appears to be a cool tool for working with data.  Love it.  And provides a source for unemployment data should you want it.
  
• When will cloud computing start raining cash? - "... there's a tremendous amount of trial and evaluation happening right now, which should translate into paid engagements in the very near future."
• Lawson ERP on Amazon Web Services - An example of the move to the cloud.
• Bing trying to kill OpenOffice? - An update at the end of the story says it is a technical issue, but this makes one think about the control we give to the search engine we use.
• Apple: Simplicity taken too far? - "I've heard a growing chorus of open-source voices shifting from Microsoft as (open-source) public enemy No. 1 to Apple."
• Opinionator - Power Tools - If you never understood logarithms in school, this is a good read.

links for 2010-03-04: (No)SQL Scalability; Novell's Tender Offer

• Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn't-Scalable Lie - A good read that brings some clarity to the SQL/NoSQL debate.
• Elliott Associates and Novell: All About a Game of Cat and Mouse - I learned a bunch about tender offers from this.