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Submission + - PostgreSQL 9.0 released (postgresql.org)

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greg1104
greg1104 writes: "PostgreSQL 9.0 has been released today, including a pile of new features (with example usage for many). The biggest pair of features now included with the database allow near real-time asynchronous binary replication to slave nodes, along with the ability to run queries against them. Packages such as pgpool-II 3.0 have already been updated to build clusters using that feature, allowing transparent application load-balancing across multiple nodes for scaling read-heavy loads."

Comment Re:I hate SQL and Databases in General... (Score 5, Informative) 272

by poet (#33438188) Attached to: Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable

Spoken with proud ignorance.

Anyone who has properly scaled an application knows the database isn't the problem. If it was, it wouldn't take 12 applications servers to bring the thing to its knees. That said, most of your gripes equate to:

I am not a DBA and therefore I do not understand DBA and therefore I must complain.

Further SQL has nothing to do with ACID. AT ALL!

Submission + - A new way to fund Open Source (fossexperts.com)

Submitted by poet
poet writes: My company has launched a new funk, FOSSExperts. The site is essentially a way for FOSS developers to try and get funding for their respective Open Source work. The idea is that getting one company to fund 20k is difficult, getting 20 companies to fund 1k is much easier. There are others out there such as Kickstarter but they are focussed on a different kind of creative. This site is designed specifically and only for FOSS work. It is currently in closed (or selective) Beta and we are seeking comments and feedback from the community at large. Please let us know what you think!

Comment Re:Sad (Score 2, Interesting) 234

by poet (#32904234) Attached to: OpenSolaris Governing Board Closing Shop?

Although I agree, kinda. We are wrong.

The market cap of Red Hat is 6.06B
The market cap of Oracle is 119.57B

Oracle doesn't need "a community" in any way. Communities are great if the bottom line isn't the priority. RHAT makes the bottom like "a" priority but they are certainly not making it "the" priority. They can't because they are an Open Source company and without the community they are hosed. Oracle needs a community like Bill Gates needs a loan.

Comment To be fair (Score 5, Insightful) 276

by poet (#32861580) Attached to: FCC Dodges Pointed Questions On US Broadband Plan

We (the U.S.) is a great deal larger and more spread out than *any* of those other countries. However, it is ridiculous that I can't easily get 100Mbs (compared to other countries) in cities like Portland or Seattle. I would expect to only be able to get 25Mbs where I live (and I can and do), as I am 45 from a major metro.

Submission + - PostgreSQL 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1 EOL

Submitted by poet
poet writes: Three major versions of PostgreSQL are end of life, this year. 7.4 and 8.0 are End of Life at this end of this month and 8.1 is EOL in November. This is not an item to take lightly. Once a version is end of life you will not be able to get support (easily), there will be no more security updates and no bug fixes even if they are data loss bugs. It is amazing how many people are still running these very old versions, in production. Now is the time to upgrade to either 8.3 or 8.4. PostgreSQL can be downloaded from PostgreSQL.org under the downloads section of the website.

Submission + - Marten Mickos hints at a closed source Eucalyptus (networkworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In a Network World article, Marten Mickos, former CEO of MySQL, talks about his opinions on a future open core world. His previous attempts at close sourcing open source software ended up with Sun pulling the plug on his plans. In the article he states his opinion that in order to derive revenue from open source, that some piece of it must be closed source. He mentioning that Eucalyptus is headed this way. Does this point to Ubuntu Cloud being eventually crippled in order to drive revenue back to his company?

Comment Re:Open Source is also a driver (Score 1) 377

by poet (#31454234) Attached to: IBM Stops Disclosing US Headcount Data

No, to be clear. Dollar for dollar I can find competent open source staff offshore in a much easier fashion than in the states. The key is to balance to two.

I see your point with something like Linux engineers but that isn't the part of open source I am in.

It is actually not tough to find offshore open source qualified expertise. You just have to be willing to dig a little deeper than freelance.com :)

Comment Open Source is also a driver (Score 3, Interesting) 377

by poet (#31453264) Attached to: IBM Stops Disclosing US Headcount Data

I run a small company. The reality is, off shoring especially with the Open Source market makes entirely too much sense from a business perspective. I can have 4 United States based people, and another 12 strategically located throughout the world. The cost of the 4 is the same as the 12. It is better for my customers, and frankly my pocket book. Also, to be honest Open Source expertise is easier to obtain off american shores.

The downside to the largest economy in the world is that it is also ridiculously expensive. Of course not as bad as western Europe but still...
Iphone

Submission + - 23 Real iPhone App Store Apps That Are Open Source (maniacdev.com)

Submitted by maniacdev
maniacdev writes: Listing of a whole bunch of apps actually in the app store that have decided to open up their source code. Includes platform games, a 3d first person shooter, twitter clients, and irc client and more. If you want to see what real developers who create real apps are doing, and see their code (as opposed to the theory dudes who just teach classes and write books) then check this out.

Submission + - YouTube Silences Fair Use Chat, Tramples Fair Use (openvideoalliance.org)

Submitted by binary.bang
binary.bang writes: I would like to submit this as a working definition of Irony

"Lawrence Lessig’s presentation last Thursday at OVA’s first Wireside Chat was a huge success. Over 3,000 unique visitors tuned in, plus hundreds more watched at over 40 local screening events. But since Lessig’s slidecast of the 45-minute talk contained 15-second clips of copyrighted music by Warner Music Group, the YouTube version was literally silenced!
Lessig’s talk—in case you missed it—was about, of all things, the importance of fair use and current copyright issues. His presentation was highly critical and thoroughly educational—as TechDirt put it, “There could be no clearer example of fair use.”"

Submission + - PostgreSQL Conference East (postgresqlconference.org)

Submitted by poet
poet writes: The PostgreSQL Conference Series is a United States based open source conference for everyone's most advanced open source database, PostgreSQL. This year, the conference has doubled in size from previous years with 45 speakers and over 50 sessions. The conference is running from 03/25 to 03/28. Any who are interested in databases should attend. Yes, this is kind of an advertisement post. However, the PostgreSQL Conference series is a model for how Open Source conferences can be run in conjunction with the community. The FAQ explains a model that allows for donations to the United States PostgreSQL Association, the 501c3 for PostgreSQL in the United States. The conference series also generates more learning material in the form of videos and slides than any other open source conference (that I know of). If you are interested in PostgreSQL or anything around PostgreSQL, this is the conference for you!
Linux

Submission + - Linux Is Doing Just Fine on Servers, Thanks Much (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes: My good buddy Preston Gralla would have it that 'Windows doesn't just dominate the desktop, but the server market as well.' Eh... I don't think so. For proof, Gralla points to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. This report covers the worldwide server market's factory revenue. What Gralla and other people miss is that IDC is not measuring what server operating systems are being used. It's measuring what server operating systems people are buying, which are bundled with their hardware purchases. To quote IDC, what the researchers are really measuring is 'server revenue includes components that are typically sold today as a server bundle, including frame or cabinet and all cables, processors, memory, communication boards, and OS.' So, it is time to start throwing a fit and start selling Red Hat stock for a dime on the dollar, and enroll in Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer night classes? No. I don't think so. What IDC is measuring is fine for looking at the traditional server sales market of Windows versus Unix. There, people tend to buy Windows or Solaris servers as a package deal. That's not how the real datacenter and server world works today though.

Comment Re:Whining little babies. (Score 1) 443

by poet (#30545324) Attached to: All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop

Actually you are wrong.

The foundation of the populist Internet is:

NCSA/Apache.
Perl
Sendmail

Which has morphed into:

Apache
PHP
Java
Perl
Python
Postfix

None of which are PHP.

The closest you can get in your argument is that GCC is GPL but even that falls down because the fact that GCC is GPL is irrelevant. It is glibc that matters and it is LGPL.

The Internet was built on a foundation of interoperability. Which means open and closed source.

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