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You Won’t Get Fired for Using Apache
Tweet In March of 2010, I sat on a panel with Justin Erenkrantz (Apache), Mårten Mickos (Eucalyptus), and Jason van Zyl (Maven/Sonatype) at the Eclipse Conference debating the future of open source...
View ArticleBottom Up Adoption: The End of Procurement as We’ve Known It
Tweet “From the beginning of time two forces have vied for influence over us. One is bottoms-up, decentralized, and emergent. The other is top-down, centralized, and directed. The first force...
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Revisiting the 2011 Predictions, Part 2
Tweet This is the concluding half of the exercise in which I review my predictions for the calendar year just ended. If you’re looking for the original 2011 predictions, those are here. Part 1,...
View ArticleWhat’s in Store for 2012: A Few Predictions
Tweet The cost of delaying my 2012 predictions is that one has already come to pass. Nginx – the web server now powering all of the redmonk.com properties – passed IIS according a January 4 Netcraft...
View ArticleOn the Decline of the GPL
Tweet Guess which open source license is more popular than the MIT, Artistic, BSD, Apache, MPL and EPL put together? Surprise: it’s the GPL. True, usage appears to be in steep decline. Since August of...
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Community Metrics: Comparing Chef and Puppet
Tweet The asymmetry of open source technologies’ ability to penetrate the enterprise datacenter is not difficult to understand. Besides questions of maturity, the fact is that different product...
View ArticleThe Open Source Implications of the CloudStack Announcement
Tweet Most of the commentary regarding the donation of the CloudStack assets to the Apache Software Foundation by Citrix yesterday has centered around the landscape implications. This is...
View ArticleThe Technology Industry Talks Too Much About Technology
Tweet According to AT&T, 15 of their available 38 smartphones are LTE. None of those are iPhones. For Verizon Wireless, that number is 23 of 46. Again, no iPhones. While it may seem unusual that...
View ArticleThe AGPL: Solution in Search of a Problem
Tweet In the early days of commercial open source, misinformation was a major impediment to adoption. Many enterprises, for example, explicitly forbade usage of code released under the GNU General...
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The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: September 2012
Tweet In December of 2010, Drew Conway decided to explore in quantitative fashion one of the more popular and contentious subjects debated by developers: the relative popularity of programming...
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Do Not Underestimate the Power of Convenience
Tweet The majority of large IT vendors today are oriented around traditional command and control structures. Specifically, they are optimized to build for and sell to an executive audience whose...
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The New Kingmakers, The Book – Available Now
Tweet As some of you have probably seen by now from Twitter, my book The New Kingmakers was released today by its primary sponsor, New Relic. Though just published, the book was actually born last...
View ArticleRevisiting the 2012 Predictions
Tweet As has become the tradition in this space, with January comes the year’s annual predictions piece, which forecasts technology industry developments for the calendar year ahead. But it’s...
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Cloud Foundry, Forking and the Future of Permissively Licensed Open Source...
Tweet A week ago today a minor skirmish broke out on Twitter between Apprenda – purveyor of PaaS software – and advocates of the open source Cloud Foundry project, originally created by VMware. The...
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Why Open Source Matters, and the Limits of Pivotal HD
Tweet Of the non-relational datastore technologies created in the past several years, none has been more successful or seen greater acceptance than Hadoop. Popular with startups, enterprise vendors...
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Roll Your Own Hardware and The Disruption of the Enterprise Server Market
Tweet In December of 2004, Adam Bosworth wrote a seminal essay entitled “Where have all the good databases gone.” Anticipating by years the rise of the MapReduce/NoSQL movements, it succinctly...
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What the OpenStack Foundation Needs to Do
Tweet In the wake of last week’s well attended OpenStack Summit, there has been much discussion of the state of the project. As is typical, this ranges from heated criticism of the project’s...
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Capsule, The Developer’s Code Journal
Tweet Most of the charts and analysis you see in this space is done, as a few of you know, via R and, more specifically, R Studio. R Studio is an excellent tool that streamlines the process of working...
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Open Source Foundations in a Post-GitHub World
Two years ago Mikeal Rogers wrote a controversial piece called “Apache considered harmful” that touched a nerve for advocates of open source software foundations. Specifically, the piece argued that...
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The Questions for Hadoop Moving Forward
In the beginning – October, 2003 to be precise – there was the Google File System. And it was good. MapReduce, which followed in December 2004, was even better. Together, they served as a framework...
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