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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

SkySQL will try to drive MySQL fork, Oracle's ouster - Not a fork yet, but supporting one (MariaDB) and not ruling out creating one.
IBM, Oracle and Java: The Q&A - @sogrady's always well written Q&A with a kind mention of the questions I sent him.
Linux Starts to Eat Microsoft’s Lunch in Servers - Shows Linux growth (79% adding more Linux vs 21% adding more Windows), but it is a lot easier to show growth when coming from behind.
Introducing Project Arcturus, Part 1: The World’s First and Only Developer Intelligence Tool - A great use of data to provide insight into developers. Kudos to RedMonk for building it. ReadWriteWeb has a review here.
Twitter mood predictions the stock market - Another fascinating use of data.
Scott McNealy Keynote Speaker at PG West - A great opportunity to hear Scott speak.

Replies and Retweets on Twitter - Some interesting stats, love the data. Are you surprised the retweets/replies are that high or do you think it was higher?
Windows Phone 7 - Seems like an uphill climb in the phone market but tablet market could be a place to grow share.
AWS Management Console Now Supports Amazon SNS - I didn't mind using the command line tools, in fact they are preferred in many cases, but adding support to the Management Console GUI is a nice addition.

Twitter to Build Data Center to Beach the Fail Whale - Seems to support the theory that cloud is a great way to start, then you go to hosted as you grow, but ultimately at large scale, owning your own data center is needed.
Apple's iPhone 4 fallout: The smartphone "industry" fires back - "Apple has always taken pride in offering a premium product to customers willing to pay a premium price. That set it higher than the others. But clearly in the iPhone game - and now in the crisis management game - Apple is looking more like a rookie, instead of a global powerhouse."
Firefox Home hits the iPhone: Looks handy - Interesting. I've been using Chrome as my browser but may have to give this a try.
Ellison Beat Out in Record Warriors Sale - I'm surprised, but he apparently made his best offer too late.

Scott McNealy’s Top 15 Reasons He’s Surprised We’re Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Web - It is always great to see Scott on stage, especially when he has a top-10 (errr 15) list.
Steven Strogatz on the Elements of Math - I blogged most of his individual entries earlier this year, now you can get them all in one place. Good stuff for those curious about math.
Oracle Cutting More Jobs Tied To Sun Deal; Taking Big Charge - Seems to be tied to LEC completing in European and Asian countries, but still sad to see.
Oracle Delivers NetBeans IDE 6.9: Expanding Support for JavaFX 1.3 and OSGi - It is good to see that NetBeans doesn't seem to be withering away. But the preferred IDE for Fusion is still JDeveloper and Eclipse.
Twitter: Sorry, but outages come with bigger improvement plan - Interesting analogy to road construction.
Linux inches up on desktop, holds steady on servers - The only OS to gain share in May. I can understand Windows dipping but I'm surprised Mac OS dipped too.
NASA JPL, robots and the AWS cloud - Some interesting applications of EC2, SimpleDB, and S3.

Quicktake Analysis: What Twitter’s “Promoted Tweets” Means To The Ecosystem - It will be interesting to see this play out.
Twitter predicts the future? - Great example of how the influx of data we have today can be used.
SpringSource Acquires RabbitMQ Cloud Messaging Technology - A continuation of their move into the Cloud.
Oracle drops top architect into MySQL skeptic zone - "If Oracle corporate hoped Screven's message would draw applause based on some collective relief it was wrong: just one person in the hushed room clapped - furiously - and this was possibly one of Oracle's employees spotted at the show trying to cheerlead a round of unspontaneous applause."
Infosys lands deal to manage Microsoft's internal IT services - A great win for Infosys.
Why applications are like fish and data is like wine - "But if we look at business architectures data has the longest shelf life, followed by business logic, followed by presentation."
Bravo Apple - "Finally, Apple is doing away with those arrogant upstarts who think then can write a few lines in a high level language and call it a program."

With Rewrite, Google Docs Takes Microsoft Office Head On - More collaboration is good, see more details here. The city of LA is easing over by just not upgrading Office without justification. Another more detailed story here.
How Do Google, Microsoft Clouds Stack Up? - A nice comparison of pricing and what is required from each vendor to do office collaboration in the Cloud.
Adobe at fault with Apple? - Sounds like they burned a few bridges they wish were still there now.
I’m Abandoning iPhone Development - Sad to see an "ask permission" environment stifle creativity and innovation.
Apple's iPad Not Ready For The Enterprise - Author fails to get the point that the iPad isn't intended to be a general purpose laptop replacement. But getting documents on/off the device does seem awfully clumsy.
Twitter Open-sources the Home of Its Social Graph - Good news for developers.
Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads - The long awaited business plan. Will users revolt against ads in their personal stream?
Tensions Rise for Twitter and App Developers - Turning the dial from ubiquity to figuring out how to make money.
66% say American is overtaxed - Some interesting stats and data.

"In Fiscal Year 2009, 50% of all federal spending went to national defense, Social Security and Medicare. When the cost of veterans affairs are included, that number grows to 53%. Five percent (5%) paid interest on the federal debt, and 42% was used for everything else in the budget."
"Fifty-two percent (52%) of voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on the issue of taxes. Thirty-four percent (34%) trust Democrats more on the issue. Republicans also are trusted more on health care and the economy."