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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Oracle kills low-priced MySQL support - This had been rumored and was expected, but now we know the details. The lowest priced offerings are gone, Standard Edition at $2K/yr now the cheapest, differentiation between editions is now with different add-ons, not level of support, and a server is limited to 4 sockets. Note that if you weren't buying the cheapest offering, the prices haven't really increased.
ASF Statement on JCP - Same issue as there has been for awhile, but now saying they'll withdraw if not addressed.
Microsoft and IBM web-control war finally silenced - Interesting read on the motivations for WS-I and entertaining quip on SOA: "WS-* and the WS-I paved the way for the Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) bubble, a cacophony of hype about a set of systems that could never be delivered but paid the wages of consultants and enterprise vendors, and involved some kind of choreography wrapped in a portal."
Ex-Red Hatters eye Larry's MySQL wobblers
Ex-Sun boss gives Ellison open-source wedgie

The upside to Apple's control freakishness - I like this from Tim O'Reilly: "It is becoming increasingly clear that the Internet is becoming not just a platform, but an operating system, an operating system that manages access by devices such as personal computers, phones, and other personal electronics to cloud subsystems ranging from computation, storage, and communications to location, identity, social graph, search, and payment."
Google Chrome update: Speed, performance and a deeper push into browser computing - Upgraded, still had it freeze on me once, but now it pops up a dialog telling me what page is the culprit and I had Flash enabled at the time.
Just as vendor-speak turns from SOA, the users are actually embracing it - No surprise here. Vendors and analysts are always talking about the next great thing while there is a lot of money to be made just delivering and implementing the last thing.
Android based tablets on their way - Already running Flash and Air.
Chris Solinsky's splits from his 10000m AR - It appears he could have run faster with more even pacing! Bodes well for his 5000m AR attempt at the Pre Classic in July.

This amazing photo of Earth cost only $750 to take - Great picture.
The power of nature - Some more great pictures.
GlassFish Roadmap FAQ - Official answers to some things I observed or speculated on.
Germany anti Google Street View? - Nice geek humor.
No Flash on iPad? No problem – we’ll redesign the site says NPR and others - As long as they do it in a standards compliant way using HTML5 and the like, this is great. Just don't let it be something proprietary.
Analysts vs Consultants - Amusing.
BPM about to explode - There certainly isn't less need for BPM!

Amazon SimpleDB introduces consistency options - For those that want traditional consistency/concurrency control in the database.
When Your SOA Using Cloud is Too Distributed and Complex - But we are increasingly moving to more distributed systems. The key is to not use synchronous calls where not required and use messaging as much as possible to decouple systems.
Data vs Dual Licensing: Which Will Make More Money? - Good discussion of the challenges of dual licensing.

Google mystery server runs 13% of active websites - Pretty amazing considering no one outside of Google runs the Google Web Server. A lot of folks are using Google to host their sites/blogs/etc. (this blog being one of them).
Is Flash required for a rich web experience? - I have to admit that the lack of Flash on the iPhone is annoying at times, so I'd have to think it would be a lot more often with the iPad.
Business event processing and SOA: Joined at the hip - Sun had a cool CEP engine in OpenESB, not sure what will happen to it now.
Windows Azure too expense for small apps - If true, missing out on an opportunity to get customers when they are small and growing.