The Blogosphere and MainStream Media

September 21, 2004 Leave a comment

I found it interesting that CNN had an entire segment today on the power of bloggers and the Blogosphere. They covered how, while the MainStream Media (MSM) is huge and the individual blogger is tiny, the individual bloggers aggregated are not only mammoth but extremely on top of almost every situation. The fact that anyone can now post about a topic about any subject and instantaneously get feedback from around the globe is tremendously powerful. Couple that with the fact that some blogs now draw a tremendous amount of traffic and you have something that even the MSM has to take notice of.
–jeremy

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Get the Facts

September 21, 2004 Leave a comment

While I don't find it overly surprising that a Windows crash caused a bit of an ugly situation, I do find it ironic (and somewhat amusing) that an article about the mishap is filled with MSFT “Get the Facts” ads. I don't think these were the facts Microsoft wanted us to know about ;)
–jeremy

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Future Google Plans

September 20, 2004 Leave a comment

This article details some of the future plans that Google may have. One of these includes their own browser. The article mentions the Mozilla Developer Day on the Google campus, which I was lucky enough to be able to attend for a little while while I was getting the tour. The article details the smart people that Google is wooing from other companies and putting in their “Sandbox”. These names include Java developer Joshua Bloch from Sun, IE developer Adam Bosworth from Microsoft and Avalon UI lead Joe Beda also from Microsoft. The article also mentions IM, web services and Google taking on Microsoft.
–jeremy

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Defining the Linux Enterprise

September 20, 2004 Leave a comment

Tom Adelstein explains the oft misunderstood “Enterprise” Linux market. He also covers how Microsoft sees themselves as an integral part of what are considered the “Big 3” in the Enterprise space – SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle.
–jeremy

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Interview With Microsoft's Linux Strategist Martin Taylor

September 17, 2004 Leave a comment

In this interview Martin Taylor covers what he has learned about Linux in the last year as Microsoft's “general manager of platform strategy”. He reiterates the fact that the current litigation really is swaying some large customers (we need to get that case behind us – the fact that it is bogus in many ways unfortunately doesn't matter). He also sees Novell being the number one distro and IBM having some trouble, long term, with their “Linux embracement”. In a completely ironic statement he also says that “IBM's going to be even more beholden to Red Hat and to Novell to do things”..um, I thought the fact that IBM was tired of being beholden was one of the reasons they embraced Linux. The fact that they very much support 2 distros means that neither one can really squeeze them like MSFT has been able to.
–jeremy

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Open Source Solaris? II

September 16, 2004 Leave a comment

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a little bit more info from the “summit” that Sun recently held regarding OpenSolaris. The article includes comments from Doc Searls, Linus Torvalds and Brian Behlendorf. Seems they still don't have a real plan and haven't yet decided on a license. More waiting…
–jeremy

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Open Source Solaris?

September 14, 2004 Leave a comment

Sun announced (for the second time I think) that Solaris will be open sourced, or at least have an open source project based on it. I find it difficult to get excited about this one until I 1) see what license they will be using and 2) actually see it happen. Even then, one has to wonder if this is too little, too late. Sun used to be a really innovative company, but more recently they have fumbled on the Java issues, flip flopped on Linux, and just generally fallen behind. With quotes like “We lost sight of being an innovative leader who is active in the developer community”, at least they seem to be looking at themselves realistically. One also has to wonder how much of the Solaris code they actually can open. They mention some device drivers being off limits, but I can't imagine that is the only code left in Solaris that does not belong to Sun. We'll have to see I guess..
–jeremy

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LinuxWorld UK

September 13, 2004 Leave a comment

I am happy to report that LinuxQuestions.org will be at LinuxWorld UK…and so will I. I just booked my flight and will be arriving Sunday morning, a couple days before the show. If you'll be making the trip feel free to stop by the LQ booth and say hello.
–jeremy

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IETF MARID WG Sender-ID Judgment

September 13, 2004 Leave a comment

The IETF MARID working group has come to a consensus about the issue I posted about here. They have decided that it is not wise to use a patent encumbered algorithm (in the case Microsoft's pra bit of Sender-ID). So what does this mean? Either MSFT will have to change the license on pfa or classic SPF will likely be what is adopted. Good to see that resistance isn't always futile.
–jeremy

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Linux Servers Continue to Sell

September 11, 2004 Leave a comment

Good to see that Linux servers are continuing to sell. From the article:
“The popularity of pre-packaged Linux servers continues to roll on.
The market for server hardware shipping with Linux reached more than $900 million in the second quarter of this year, according to research firm IDC. Revenue grew by almost 50% from the same quarter a year ago, and numbers of units shipped were up 38%.”
The article also says “that by 2008, 29% of all servers shipped will have Linux running on them. The firm also sees Linux pulling in around $9.7 billion in revenue in five years”.
The future continues to look bright.
–jeremy

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