People Over Process

• Berkeley DB Java Edition (JE) and JRuby Interoperability
  Hooking up Berkeley DB JE to Ruby, via JRuby.
  (tags: jruby ruby sleepycat berkeleydb je dynamiclanguages java)
• Jabber Software Foundation Renamed to XMPP Standards Foundation
  (tags: jabber im xmpp presence pr)
• MashPit — Co-op Hackathon - In the tradition of Barcamp comes Mas…
  “Mash Pit is an informal all-day hackfest for collaborating on solving human problems with open APIs, open source and web-based technology.”
  (tags: unconference barcamp conferences events hackculture mashpit)
• Adobe Releases Major Upgrade to RoboHelp
  My techpub friends used to use this at BMC.
  (tags: redmonkclients adobe techpubs robohelp help)
• IBM Press room - IBM Introduces Powerful Entry Storage Systems
  “Both systems support 12 SAS hard disk drives for 3.6 terabytes, and up to three EXP3000 enclosures for greater than 14.4 terabytes of raw capacity that allow for the storage systems to scale up to 48 hard disk drives.” About $5k and $6.5k respectively.
  (tags: storage pr ibm sysmgmt smb)
• Spiceworks - Meet the Team
  (tags: spiceworks rails ruby sysmgmt austin redmonkclients)
• Adobe Delivers Flash Player 9 for Linux
  “Additionally, Linux developers can create, test and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the Linux platform using the free Adobe Flex 2 SDK, Adobe Flash Player 9 and the free Flex Data Services 2 Express.”
  (tags: adobe redmonkclients flash linux sdk free ria)
• HP continues to put software house in order
  New BI unit at HP.
  (tags: hp bi infoworld software enterprisesoftware)
• Sun undercuts Red Hat on support pricing
  (tags: sunw pricing opensolaris redhat linux support opensource)
• BEA plans to show off Runner and Graffiti
  BEA soon to announce it’s Web 2.0 behind-the-firewall suite…
  (tags: bea web2.0 enterprisesoftware bookmarks runner builder graffiti behindthefirewall ventura)
• SAP launches new All-in-One version
  “Initially, the new All-in-One version will offer 20 ‘Best Practice’ offerings, which essentially are pre-configured applications for specific industries, such as chemicals.”
  (tags: configuration sap erp smb usability bestpractices)
• Sun to dual-license OpenSolaris - anonymous tipster says GPLv3
  (tags: sunw gpl gplv3 solaris opensolaris linux os)
• iPhone - the roach motel business model
  (tags: iphone roachmotels apple itunes drm)
• Offline Gmail, Blogger, and Portal Mocked
  (tags: ajaxian google synchronizedweb offline gmail blogger portal)
• eighty-eight miles per hour » Business Cards + Hackergotchi = Awesome
  The backs of these cards are nice. I outta get some like that…
  (tags: businesscards cards)
• Mercurial, Part I
  Bill on Mercurial, a distributed version control system. I still don’t quite “get” the distributed part: that is, how it accomplished the effects of a central version control system of synching people up…probably obvious once I hear it ;)
  (tags: mercurial vcs cvs svn programming python distributed)
• LinkedIn: Catherine Helzerman
  …moved back to IBM.
  (tags: ar sunw ibm)
• Predatory Open Source?
  “In effect Open Source has become a free pass for all sorts of competitive actions that would once have been—at a minimum—roundly criticized.”
  (tags: analysts illuminata via:JamesGovernor opensource competitive eclipse)
• Service Modeling Language
  (tags: sml standards to_read via:JamesGovernor sysmgmt)
• Two principles of successful open source businesses
  “(1.) Don’t upsell your community, and, (2.) Sell open source to those who don’t like/trust open source.”
  (tags: infoworld opensource via:sogrady pricing)

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