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November 9th, 2009
Oracle: EC has 'profound misunderstanding' of database market; DOJ seems to agree
updated: Oracle Corp. schooled the European Commission today on some basic knowledge about open-source technology, lashing out in a statement that the regulatory agency that’s currently holding up Oracle’s acquisition of Sun has revealed its “profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open source dynamics.”
Separately, the U.S. Department of Justice released its own statement, essentially backing Oracle and explaining its reasons for giving the go-ahead for the acquisition and why it felt the deal was not anti-competitive.
The European Commission has expressed concerns over MySQL, delaying the acquisition from moving forward, filing a Statement of Objections today. In a statement responding to the Commission’s filing, Oracle wrote:
Oracle’s acquisition of Sun is essential for competition in the high end server market, for revitalizing Sparc and Solaris and for strengthening the Java development platform. The transaction does not threaten to reduce competition in the slightest, including in the database market. The Commission’s Statement of Objections reveals a profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open source dynamics. It is well understood by those knowledgeable about open source software that because MySQL is open source, it cannot be controlled by anyone. That is the whole point of open source.
The company argued that “the database market is intensely competitive,” with eight strong players and specifically names IBM, Microsoft and Sybase as open source vendors. As for MySQL competing with Oracle products, the company said they are very difference and that there is “no basis in European law for objecting to a merger of two among eight firms selling differentiated products.” In its own statement, the U.S. Department of Justice seemed to agree. It wrote:
The Division concluded, based on the specific facts at issue in the transaction, that consumer harm is unlikely because customers would continue to have choices from a variety of well established and widely accepted database products. The Department also concluded that there is a large community of developers and users of Sun’s open source database with significant expertise in maintaining and improving the software, and who could support a derivative version of it
Sun, which was already a financially-troubled company when Oracle made its acquisition bid, recently laid off 3,000 employees as part of a restructuring plans that stems from delays in regulatory approval. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison recently said that delays are costing about $100 million per month.
Oracle noted that Sun’s customers “universally support this merger and do not benefit from the continued uncertainty and delay.” The company said evidence against the Commission’s position is overwhelming. and that it lacks any credible theory or evidence of competitive harm.
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October 19th, 2009
Failure as a springboard to success
Fail.
Fail.
Those of you who have been crawling through the undergrowth of the Internet over the last few years will have stumbled across this four-letter gem, typically slapped on a photograph of a dog chasing a Frisbee into a tree or an aesthetically-challenged gent of portly persuasion dressed as a Klingon. When the Internet made kittens playing guitars funny, the next logical step in evo-’lol’-ution was to illustrate and celebrate failure in its many forms. Failure, my friends, should also be embraced in your communities.
Communities are fundamentally networks of people; people with emotions, passions and insecurities. When we connect these people together, particularly in an online environment, the core of the human condition is laid bare. One such element is our attitudes towards failure, particularly when combined with a sense of pride. No one likes to fail, screw up, or get it wrong, and this in-built sense of pride often causes us to internalize these failures and prevents us from embracing and learning from them in our communities. In other words, if we ham-fist something, for many of us our natural inclination is to grit our teeth, wish it had never happened, and step-around said balls-up.
This is particularly tempting for leaders. With many collaborative communities being meritocracies (in which you develop respect based on good work as opposed to driving a Bugati Veyron), the reputations of our leaders are forged out in the open. Our leaders know that this respect can be lost in a heartbeat, and there is often a reluctance to admit to, embrace and work on the opportunities that surround failure. Read the rest of this entry »
October 15th, 2009
Mono-mania: It's risky business
[The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.]
There has been a lot of press recently about the Open Source “Mono” project, arguing about whether it is safe to use by the Free Software community, and even comparing it to the project I work on, Samba. Given all this controversy, I thought I might as well write down my own thoughts on the matter, and even try and change a few minds in the bargain.
Mono is controversial as it is a re-implementation of Microsoft’s .NET technology, in much the same way as Samba is a re-implementation of Microsoft’s Server Message Block (SMB) file sharing protocol. The genesis of each project and how they have developed over the years is somewhat different, however.
Samba was initially written by the original developers to “scratch our own itch.” It was code that was specifically useful to us, and originally had no wider purpose than that. We have gotten a little more ambitious over the years, but one of our primary purposes is still to write code that’s useful to us (or to me at least :-). Witness our development of a UNIX variant of the SMB protocol, which has no use for Windows clients or servers, but is a great way of networking Linux boxes together.
Miguel De Icaza [at right], the original creator of the Mono project, would argue the same for Mono. Miguel was one of the original creators of the Gnome Linux desktop code, and personally wrote some of the large Gnome desktop applications in C. I once asked Miguel (while we were stuck on a bus together traveling to some godforsaken LinuxWorld event in Boston) why he decided to create Mono, which re-implements Microsoft’s C# language and the runtime environment that goes with it, “It’s simple,” he replied, “I’m fed up of writing memory garbage collection code for C applications. There had to be an easier way to write Linux desktop applications than that.”
He does have a point. Writing complex graphical user interface (GUI) applications in C or even C++ is hard, with many opportunities for memory corruption, memory leaks or security errors. The question is, why recreate a Microsoft technology for this, when Sun’s Java already existed at the time the Mono project was started, and solved many of the same problems?
October 12th, 2009
McNealy zings iPhone, laments the PC, claims Sun started open source
The media is going to miss Scott McNealy as the head of Sun Microsystems. The guy has always been a reliable source of great quotes about the state of the tech industry and zingers against Sun’s competition. In what was very likely his last big speech as the leader of Sun Microsystems on Sunday night, McNealy gave the audience at Oracle OpenWorld several more McNealy-esque quips on his take of the tech world and Sun’s role in it.
September 24th, 2009
Red Hat CEO vs. Torvalds: More Linux features don't equate to bloat
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst disagreed with Linus Torvalds’ contention that Linux has become bloated. Whitehurst said that Linux is growing and becoming more full-featured. The bloat will come when features are added that no one wants.
Whitehurst addressed the Torvalds comments Wednesday on the company’s second quarter earnings conference call.
Also see: Torvalds calls Linux “bloated” and “scary.” Is he right? · Does it matter that “Linux is bloated”?
Here’s the key question from Brent Williams, an analyst at Benchmark, and Whitehurst’s answer.
Williams: I saw an interview with [Linus Torvalds] the other day and he was suggesting the idea that in some respects, the core Linux kernel is getting a little bit bloated and that there’s just so much stuff going in there and I think of course Linus speaks his mind at any given moment and doesn’t bother himself with consistency from day to day in his thoughts, but is this reflective of any maturity in the evolution of the kernel technologically? Is this suggesting maybe that a lot more focus is going to surrounding capabilities? I mean, is this indicative of a change in the focus of the kernel development community and can we look at any sort of hints there about where Linux might evolve and how that might end up helping Linux attack new markets, or anything like that?
Whitehurst: I guess my simple answer to that is as Linux has continued to grow and its applicability continues to expand, there’s just more feature functionality that people are looking for to be built into the operating system. I have not had a conversation with him about the comment. I don’t think of that as bloat. Certainly bloat is when you start adding feature functionalities that people don’t want, and certainly the nature of Linux where users are the key contributors, I do think Linux is growing but I think it is much more indicative of the fact that its’ continued added features that people do want and the key differentiator is it can continue to do that in a very modular way, so I actually look at the growth as much more of a reflection that it continues to add features that people do want, and that’s a good thing.
So who’s right here? Whitehurst has a point. Won’t every operating system have virtualization capabilities layered in? Isn’t it the normal course of business to add features?
However, Torvalds may be onto something too. He may be early with his bloat warning, but at some point Linux will have more features than people actually want. Bloated operating systems are like a lot of other things: It’s hard to find the tipping point, but you know bloat when you see it.
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Red Hat gains operating system share at Sun's expense
Red Hat’s fiscal second quarter results were solid across the board as the company continues to poach operating system market share even though server sales are weak.
Simply put, you can’t extrapolate Red Hat’s results to other enterprise software vendors. Red Hat’s continued growth is at the expense of other players.
The company reported net income of $28.9 million, or 15 cents a share, on revenue of $183.6 million, up 12 percent from a year ago. Subscription revenue was up 15 percent from a year ago to $156.3 million. Non-GAAP earnings excluding a tax benefit were 16 cents a share, a penny better than expectations (statement).
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst was asked on Red Hat’s earnings conference call whether customers were buying more servers or just leaving other operating systems like Solaris. Whitehurst said:
September 23rd, 2009
Intel's Moblin demo looks promising
Intel’s open-source Moblin operating system is a work in progress, but looks like it’s coming together well.
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel product manager Claire Alexander shows Intel CEO Paul Otellini a demo Moblin, which will include next-generation mobile features such as a touch-screen interface.
Here’s a look:
The big question is whether Moblin can get traction. The operating system competition is fierce.
September 11th, 2009
Red Hat: Quiet winner amid Sun's server apocalypse?
Oracle has thrown down the hardware gauntlet against IBM to stem the bleeding at soon-to-be-acquired Sun Microsystems—assuming the EU plays along—but Red Hat may be among the big winners amid the server wars.
Too often, we look at IBM’s shredding of Sun on server sales as a hardware story. IBM, HP and Dell appear to be taking share from Sun. So much so that Oracle is opening a blitz to stop the Sun bleeding and take on IBM directly.
Here’s the IDC tally:
So what is replacing these Sun boxes? A few industry contacts—who conduct some of these server swaps—have noted that Sun is being replaced by Dell, HP and IBM boxes. And most of these boxes are running Red Hat.
Add it up it appears that while most of us are focused on the server wars Red Hat may be quietly gaining share in the background as Linux gains share.
September 2nd, 2009
IBM, Dell gain server share amid server sales carnage; HP share flat
Server sales continue to tank with worldwide server revenue falling 30.1 percent in the second quarter to $9.8 billion. That decline has set up a market share duel that IBM appears to be winning, according to IDC.
According to IDC server revenue fell for the fourth consecutive quarter to the lowest sales tally since the research firm began tracking it in 1996. Unit shipments also fell 30.4 percent in the second quarter compared to a year ago. First quarter server sales fell 26.5 percent.
Simply put, few enterprises are refreshing their servers. What do you do amid the carnage? Duke it out for market share. IDC reckons that companies will have to refresh their servers at some point, but it’s unclear when.
In the meantime, here are the standings that illustrate how IBM and Dell are gaining share:
Dell and IBM have ganged up on Sun, the weak link, to gain market share, and HP stayed flat.
Under the hood:
- Windows Server revenue fell 27.7 percent in the second quarter, but Microsoft had 38.1 percent market share.
- Linux revenue fell 28.9 percent in the second quarter to $1.3 billion. That sum is good for 13.8 percent market share, up from 13.5 percent a year ago.
- Unix server sales fell 30.9 percent in the second quarter to $3.1 billion. IBM gained 7.4 percent of Unix server market share to 41.4 percent. Sun had 27.3 percent of the market followed by HP at 24.8 percent.
August 13th, 2009
Open-source voting: Secure over obscure?
At the OpenSource World event in San Francisco, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen says open-source software can help improve security in voting systems. Even with built-in security measures, though, potential human error among thousands of volunteers will put them at risk.
August 12th, 2009
IDG on thin crowds: OpenSource World is invitation only
Earlier today, I posted an entry from the kick-off keynote at OpenSource World and noted that the crowds were pretty light. From my viewpoint, there were probably all of about 250 or so people in that room. Having attended LinuxWorld last year, I couldn’t help but wonder what caused such a slowdown in attendance. Was it the economy? Slashed travel budgets? Maybe it was the use of Twitter as a means of following the event remotely.
Then, I got a call from the folks at IDGWorld Expo, which hosts the show, for some clarification.
It turns out that the new show - which incorporates the old LinuxWorld and wraps in NGDC (Next Generation Data Center) and Cloud World - is no longer open to the public. Instead, the hosts have ” rigorously qualified thousands of attendees to ensure that participants represent only IT professionals, technology buyers and C-level decision makers.”
Sure, the lines at the registration booths had picked up by late morning - but there was still no where near “thousands of attendees” in that building. No way.
IDG is pitching this as a hand-picked group that will be able to maximize the networking and learning opportunities at the show by ensuring that those who are most interested in the topics at-hand are in attendance.
But I can’t help but question the spin - largely because I recognize that travel budgets are tight, IT staffs have been slashed and so many of the topics being covered, such as cloud computing and virtualization, are being covered at other conferences, as well as all over the blogosphere.
Has social media, virtual meetings and other technologies killed the need for ultra-geeky tech shows? Last year, my BTL counterpart Larry Dignan attended a show where he met some mid-market IT folks who were attending because the conference organizers paid their way so vendors could meet with them.
I’m not even coming close to implying that that’s what’s happening here. It’s just interesting that a show like this started off with such a whimper when these topics - cloud computing and virtualization - are on the minds of IT decision-makers everywhere.
Maybe the thousands of attendees will start pouring into Moscone Center later today or even tomorrow. But if they wait too much longer, they’ll miss everything. The show wraps up tomorrow afternoon.
August 12th, 2009
OpenSource World kicks off with sparse crowds, nothing-new keynote
If the attendance at the opening keynote for OpenSource World (formerly known as LinuxWorld) serves as a barometer for anything to do with the economy, the tech industry or even trade shows, things are not looking good.
There were no lines this morning to get inside San Francisco’s Moscone Center, a place that I’ve had to fight my way through for events such as the Google Developer’s Conference and MacWorld. In fact, the large auditorium where most keynotes speeches are delivered was dark. This morning’s keynote speech was being held in the smaller rooms where breakout sessions usually occur - and there were a lot of open seats.
Then came the introduction of Judy O’Brien Chavis, director for business development and global alliances at Dell, a last-minute substitution for another Dell exec who couldn’t attend.
While Chavis was engaging and enthusiastic in her delivery and spoke with authority about the topic, she was also a bit rattled. Her presentation slides were out of order and there were several periods of awkward silence as she found her groove.
The biggest problem I had with her keynote speech was that she didn’t seem to say anything beyond what we’ve been reading in a number of tech-centric blogs - ZDNet among them. For the most part, she talked about utilizing the cloud and virtualization to reduce costs and improve efficiencies in the data center. And it was unclear from the start whether she was trying to bring new insight into next-generation technology or offer a sales pitch for Dell’s offerings.
The bottom line, she said, is that the cloud is about business model flexibility. “I’m not saying that everything qualifies to be in the cloud,” she said. Companies will need to assess what belongs in the cloud and what belongs in the data center.
She noted that Dell is focused on the disruptive changes in the industry, making investments in services that the company can deliver and is extending its cloud services model to help clients create new models.
It’s unclear if attendees decided to sleep in and skip the 8:15 a.m. keynote speech. There does seem to be some enthusiasm around the smaller breakout sessions - so there’s still hope that this year’s event (which feels like a completely different show from last year’s Linux World) can still be salvaged.
August 11th, 2009
VMware's SpringSource purchase sparks head scratching; Still doesn't solve the Microsoft problem
VMware’s purchase of SpringSource for $420 million has sparked a fair amount of head scratching among analysts who argue the virtualization software company paid too much and still failed to solve its Microsoft problem.
Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry noted that SpringSource had roughly $10 million in annual revenue. Cowen and Company analyst Walter Pritchard put SpringSource’s revenue at $20 million to $40 million a year. Either way, VMware’s purchase (Techmeme) was deemed expensive by most analysts.
Wells Fargo analyst Philip Rueppel said:
July 30th, 2009
Open-source bonuses for the big guys [video]
At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, panelists discuss benefits that huge companies like Google and Facebook could get from embracing open source, such as third-party developers integrating their products into new application versions and easier connectivity with emerging technologies. Panelists include Ron Yekutiel, CEO of Kaltura; Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource; and moderator Matt Asay, vice president of business development at Alfresco and a member of the CNET Blog Network.
July 27th, 2009
Intuit launches open source community
What good is an open-source platform without a community of developers who can interact with each other and the company via a forum for sharing toolkits, tips, documentations and more?
Intuit, the makers of popular Quicken and Quickbooks software, today announced the out-of-beta launch of code.intuit.com, an open-source community where users can share information to enhance SaaS apps via the Intuit Partner Platform, announced last month.
In its blog post, the company said:
code.intuit.com is next step to developing an open small business ecosystem and we believe that by adopting the open source model for the Intuit Partner Platform, we’re enabling developers to collaborate with us to enhance their applications and the platform and Small businesses will benefit from a better SaaS experience with Web applications that work together and solve real business needs.
The company previously announced Federated Applications, which allows developers to use any programming language, host those apps on any cloud infrastructure and connect them to the IPP, marketing them to the millions of small businesses that use Intuit products.
July 16th, 2009
Microsoft gets its edge back
Is it just me or is Microsoft a little more competitive than it has been in recent years? Microsoft has gotten under Apple’s skin—at least its lawyers—got Google’s attention with Bing and is even doing the Web app thing. Microsoft almost seems to be enjoying itself as honchos like Kevin Turner proclaim: “Competing is fun.”
The second part of operating chief Turner’s quote is: “Now, competing is a lot more fun when you’re winning than it is when you’re losing.”
Rest assured that Microsoft will win a few and lose a few, but you gotta admit the company is more interesting to watch these days. Let’s survey the battlefront.
July 1st, 2009
Ubuntu private clouds need more than tools; they need support, too
Canonical, the London company that founded the Ubuntu Project, today announced professional services to support companies who are building “private cloud” infrastructures behind their corporate firewalls.
Earlier this year, the company released a technical preview of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), an open-source system that allows companies to build private clouds that match the Amazon EC2 interface.
But the tools to build an open-source cloud behind the wall aren’t enough. Customers also need support. In a statement, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth said:
Enterprises are realising that building ‘private clouds’ enables them to better manage variable workloads, while reducing the waste of idle servers. Building on open-source technology also avoids the issue of vendor lock-in. Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud enables businesses to do this - and the addition of these services helps them to do it with confidence.
Canonical is partnering with Eucalyptus to provide the support services, but through Canonical’s support team and interface.
Also see: Dana Blankenhorn: Will Ubuntu remain a minor player
June 30th, 2009
Helping corporations leverage the Web, using open source and the cloud
What do open source and cloud computing have in common?
For Navid Safabakhsh, principal at San Francisco and Philadelphia-based interactive web development agency Freshout, it’s that both technologies are low-cost, high-yield solutions to help corporations leverage the customer data they collect on the Web.
I spoke with Safabakhsh about how his company’s mix of open source, collaboration and the cloud helps companies innovate by plugging into the Web — and their customers.
June 23rd, 2009
The media is dead. Long live the media
[The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.]
I gave up on the mainstream media in 2002-2003, in the run up to the Iraq war. Every single channel in the USA was selling the prospect of war like a product, a new soap powder. I tried to find coverage of the over one million person protest march in London that I’d heard about via email, and it was barely mentioned. The last straw came when I got so angry I nearly threw a chair through my brand new plasma TV, which would have been an expensive outburst, but that’s what you get for watching Fox News for longer than it takes to flip through the channels on the remote.
Godzilla: I just didn't care
I moved to the Internet to get my news coverage, and I’ve never looked back. Yes, I’m seeing some of the same US-centric reports, but you can easily balance them by looking at the viewpoint on events from world wide media coverage. There are so many alternatives to simple text now too. Video sharing sites provide instant camera-phone access to events that would never have received attention before. You can actually watch an event that previously would only be reported from one point of view and make up your own mind about what happened. New communications media like Twitter have become so important in recent events that the US government requested the company postpone scheduled maintenance in the aftermath of the Iranian election, because so many Iranians were using it to communicate with the outside world.
Mainstream cinema I’d given up much earlier than that. I went to see the movie “Godzilla” when it came out in 1998. I’d seen the previews and was excited about actually seeing a big lizard trample New York underfoot. I wasn’t disappointed. The special effects (an early use of computer-generated imagery) were everything they promised in the trailers. I actually believed a giant lizard was loose in the Big Apple. But during the movie I realized I felt completely detached from the spectacle. It took me a while to realize the problem was I just didn’t care. The story was facile (OK, it was a monster movie) and the characters were one dimensional cardboard cut-outs. I was bored, which is the ultimate sin for a summer blockbuster movie.
Since then I’ve still enjoyed movies, but now I only go watch movies with recommendations from people whose judgment I trust. I use a peer-to-peer filter on my viewing habits these days. As for TV shows I no longer partake. If I hear about anything interesting on the networks I wait until it is available on DvD, then buy the boxed set to enjoy at my leisure. No adverts, you see. Anyone who has ever watched US TV channels will realize how unbearable the adverts make trying to watch a program. Some people use a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) to achieve the same effect, but I just don’t want to encourage the TV networks any more so I don’t subscribe.
Mostly I like to watch things online. Read the rest of this entry »
June 11th, 2009
U.S. CTO: Infrastructure growth needs private sector investment
The technology backbone of the United States needs a major overhaul and government alone can’t do it, the nation’s first chief technology officer said today. It’s going to take a cooperative effort, including a massive influx of “hundreds of billions” of private capital dollars, for the U.S. to catch up to its global peers.
CTO Aneesh Chopra delivered a keynote address this morning at the Consumer Electronics Association’s Digital Downtown event in New York City. The U.S., he said, is “dead last” on the global stage when it comes to the tech infrastructure and yet bandwidth usage in the U.S. is expected to increase five-fold by 2013.
“We’ve stood still while the rest of the world has caught up or exceeded us,” he said.
The U.S. is going to have to bring “all stakeholders to the table” for this discussion, he said. “We want equity, growth, application value…we have multiple public priorities, and the bulk of capital [investment]…will be a private sector endeavor.”
In his keynote, Chopra outlined the four areas, or “pillars,” of growth in need of attention: harnessing the potential for economic growth; innovation and policy reform in areas such as energy and education; increasing secure connectivity across the nation; and using “retail 2.0″ strategies in government efforts, such as in employment and social services.
Andrew J. Nusca is an associate editor for ZDNet and SmartPlanet.
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