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January 25th, 2010
Avoiding resource fetishism: It's about workflow, not tools
One of the most liberating elements of community, particularly those that are at least a little nerdy, is the incredible temptation to build elaborate and complicated infrastructure. It is easy to see why: there is an abundance of Open Source web applications that have proven and mature track records, server space is cheap, so why not just cram as many of these tools into your community as possible. Surely, the more tools we have available, the easier and more effective we are at collaborating? Not exactly.
Collaboration is not about tools, it is about workflow.
People don’t create things because a tool exists, and therefore the theory does not extend to people creating more things when more tools exist. When tools are available that match the workflow required, collaboration thrives. As such, don’t be drawn into installing every wiki, CMS, bug tracker, issue tracker, source control system, CRM, collaborative notepad, micro-blogging service, social media application and other such gizmo unless it is actually needed. Instead of thinking “by eck, this looks rather cool, let’s get one set up for the community”, instead think “what would be the most perfect workflow for what we want to do and how can we use freely available tools to make this happen?”
We did this recently with Shot Of Jaq; a podcast that I founded with my best pal Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge. Shot Of Jaq is a twice-weekly show in which we produce two shots, each of which provides a short, sharp, 10 minute long bolt of news and technology analysis that is designed to start the conversation. We have developed infrastructure to really encourage listeners to listen to show and then dig in and get involved in the site. To do this we used Wordpress and a variety of plug-ins. Read the rest of this entry »
January 11th, 2010
Laying structure down in your community
One of the challenges that every community faces, particularly teams inside a larger community, is the ability to coordinate what goals and ambitions the team is going to work on. Traditionally this has always been somewhat ad-hoc: people join a team and work on whatever they feel like. Ideas are ten-a-penny though. For most teams that work on larger projects (such as events, software, products and more) to actually be productive, coordinating this work can be complex: some projects require coordination across many people with different skill-sets, time-availability and resources.
Something I have been socializing inside my own communities is a culture of best-practice in how we plan our work and coordinate our awesome teams to work together on projects. I believe this kind of coordination can help our teams increase the opportunity for success in their work, feel more empowered and productive and provide greater insight to people outside those teams on what the team is doing.
December 23rd, 2009
Red Hat gaining share of IT budgets; Landing bigger deals
Red Hat’s fiscal third quarter results add up to one conclusion: The company is gaining more share of corporate IT budgets.
Indeed, the company met, or beat, expectations on all key metrics: Revenue, deferred revenue, billings, deals signed and earnings. Red Hat landed larger deals and upped its outlook for the fourth quarter and fiscal 2010.
Red Hat reported pro forma earnings of $33.5 million, or 17 cents a share, a penny ahead of Wall Street estimates (statement). Including a charge related to a litigation settlement, Red hat reported net income of $16.4 million, or 8 cents a share, down from $24.3 million, or 12 cents a share, a year ago. Revenue was $194.3 million, up 18 percent from a year ago.
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December 22nd, 2009
Google delivers open system treatise: Do you buy it?
Jonathan Rosenberg, senior vice president of product management at Google, delivered a treatise on open systems that explains the search giant’s strategy to managers, delivers a few jabs at rivals and lays out the landscape. The big question: Do you buy into Google’s open system religion and trust the company as a steward?
Rosenberg’s uber memo, posted on Google’s blog, is worth a read. It revolves around an internal (not to mention eternal) debate at Google: How open should a company be and what the definition of ‘open’ in practice?
Google’s definition of open systems:
There are two components to our definition of open: open technology and open information. Open technology includes open source, meaning we release and actively support code that helps grow the Internet, and open standards, meaning we adhere to accepted standards and, if none exist, work to create standards that improve the entire Internet (and not just benefit Google). Open information means that when we have information about users we use it to provide something that is valuable to them, we are transparent about what information we have about them, and we give them ultimate control over their information. These are the things we should be doing. In many cases we aren’t there, but I hope that with this note we can start working to close the gap between reality and aspiration.
That definition always looks good on paper, but I suspect at many companies a commitment to open is uncomfortable. In many respects, a commitment to open systems is a leap of faith. You think it’s a good long-term move, but in the short run you’re not sure.
Rosenberg outlines the conundrum:
December 18th, 2009
Unchaining the opportunistic programmer
One of the most wonderful elements of Open Source is that the free availability of good tools and balanced licenses means that motivated people can create interesting things. The entire Open Source landscape, on any Operating System,is fundamentally driven by this ethos: great tools, great people and a great environment make even greater things happen.
Anyone who has been around these Open Source parts for a reasonable chunk of time will have come across the many and varied chunks of Open Source lore that get bandied around. We talk about “scratching your itch” and that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow“. We round out these observations with an encouragement to “release early, release often” and that “if you see a bug, file a bug“. Each of these juicy nuggets of wisdom each points to an underlying culture of embracing the opportunistic programmer.
Opportunistic programmers do exactly what it says on the tin: they find opportunities to write programs. They are a subset of a wider demographic of people that when enabled with tools and knowledge can creatively think of and ultimately implement solutions to common problems. Opportunistic programmers are typically not interested in writing large office suites, web browsers and email programs. Instead, they like writing small, fun and useful little programs. They buy a new device and need a tool to manage it: they write it. They want to be able to track their workouts better: they write it. They need a tool to manage their TODO list: they write it. Opportunistic programmers revel in the fact that they are empowered to solve problems not only conceptually but practically.
December 14th, 2009
Community meetings: Rock not ramble
At the heart of great communities is great communication. Different communities converse in very different ways. Some step out into the big blue room and talk face to face in coffee shops, classrooms and lecture theatres, whereas some chew the fat online on mailing lists, in chat channels and in forums. Unfortunately when many communities set up shop they make one particularly common mistake: they focus too heavily on the medium as opposed to the approach.
There are two basic types of conversation that happen in communities:
- Ad-Hoc - these are the general off-the-cuff chats and discussions that happen in your community’s hang outs. You can consider ad-hoc discussions to be the equivalent of office banter: the key point is that they are unscheduled, have no fixed agenda and no formally required outcome.
- Meetings - the second type of discussion are meetings, and they are the inverse of ad-hoc discussion. Meetings have scheduled times and locations, they should have an agenda and their purpose is to achieve a given outcome, be it consensus, a document, a strategy or otherwise.
Today I want to share some tips for refining the latter of these two types of conversation. I am also keen to see you lovely people share your experiences in the comments on this article too. :-)
December 14th, 2009
Oracle reassures MySQL customers as wrestles with EU over the Sun purchase
Oracle on Monday moved to reassure MySQL customers as it engages in “constructive discussions” with the European Union to win approval of its purchase of Sun Microsystems.
In a statement, Oracle said it will maintain MySQL as a competitive force in the database market. The big worry from EU regulators is that Oracle will nuke MySQL in favor its own database.
Oracle’s key points:
December 4th, 2009
10 Linux features Windows should have by default
This is a guest post from TechRepublic’s Jack Wallen. For more posts like this see TechRepublic’s 10 Things blog.
The battle between Linux and Windows will most likely rage on for years to come. I can foresee that even when all things migrate to the cloud, users in both camps will still be screaming the virtues of their favorite operating system. And, of course, I will be one of those campers (and I can bet you know just which camp I’ll be in). But being in that camp does not preclude me from seeing the benefits and strengths of the Windows operating system.
In my next two 10 Things articles, I am going to take pieces of each operating system and place them in the other. In this first article, I am going to share 10 features from the Linux operating system that should be in the Windows operating system. In the next article, I will go the other way.
Now you should know, features will encompass literal features as well as systems and even philosophies. I don’t want to leave anything out of the picture. In the end, my hope is that theoretically, at least, we’ll have a much more ideal operating system. Of course, you can (and will) be the judge of that. Let’s get going and start adding Linux features to Windows.
Note: This article is also available as a PDF download.
1: Compiz
No matter how clean Aero gets, I am not a fan of the flat, single-workspace desktop of Windows 7. Yes, it has come a long way, but it’s not nearly the modern desktop that Compiz offers. Of course, many would argue that Compiz is nothing more than eye candy. I, on the other hand, would argue that many of the features Compiz offers are just as much about usability as they are eye candy. Having a 3D desktop that offers you quick access (via key combinations) to multiple workspaces is handy. Window switchers can’t be beaten for ease of use. And the eye candy is just a bonus. Having Compiz on top of Windows would certainly take the experience to a level few Windows users have experienced.
2: Multi-user
Yes I know you can have multiple accounts on a Windows 7 box, but that doesn’t make it truly multi-user. Can you log on more than one user at a time in Windows 7? Not by default. To have concurrent user sessions for Windows 7, you have to download a third-party tool. In Linux, you can do this by default. This is a feature that should be enabled by default in Windows 7, too.
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.
Also see:
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.
Sam Diaz is a senior editor at ZDNet. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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