As I mentioned in a reply before: we did supply our internal clients - management - and our external clients with what they wanted. That's our job and I'm well aware of it. The question was asked to see what's the status of reporting and if it is loosing grounds to dashboards, and how the IT community feels about it. From the comments it seems that the question was well worth asking.

    Why would I buy a /. id?

   

    I'm sorry you read that in my question - I thought it was clear that we did, in fact, provide the reporting services they were used to. We integrated ElasticSearch with the reporting system - Jasper Reporting - that they already used. My way - as a provider of solutions - is to do just that: provide a solution to the clients' requests. - wether the clients are internal or external.

    What I was asking - and the debate that followed shows that it's not such a clear-cut vision - was the experience of other IT professionals in this field and what was the trend, and if reporting is being replaced by dashboards. You could also read it as: what are dashboards missing that reports have? And the discussion pointed to several issues with dashboard based solutions.

My understanding of the issue makes things look better for Wolfe.

    He contributed code to the project - licensed as LGPL - before the Bukkit team was aquired by Mojang. At that time the server code - decompiled and deobfuscated - included in the releases was not falling under the LGPL license because it was not owned by the releasing team.

    Forward to when the Bukkit team is aquired by Mojang - who owns the copyrights to the server code - and a new release is made. At this point the server code included in the release, which is copyrighted by Mojang, falls under the LGPL.

    I am not saying that this is what's the legal reality of the case, but I think this is what Wolfe thinks and why he issued th DMCA takedown notice.

Hi. I'm a handwringing euro. Now, I would like you to point any article from the european press that blames the terrorist act on anyone else but Al Queida. I hope you were not too brainwashed by your media to think on your own, so I invite you to try and find the difference between "The muslims attacked us for no reason, we'll bomb them out of existence" and "A terrorist group attacked us, let's find out why and how can we avoid this happening again, and actually think back so that we don't make the same mistakes that brought us to this point again."

The people who use terrorism to make a point are people who don't deserve to be considered human. ANY person who uses ANY form of terrorism falls into that category.

Do you think we should feel safer after the attack on Afghanistan? Do you think we can feel safer after an attack on Iraq? How do you think civilians killed in a bombing are different from civilians killed in a terrorist act? Think for a while before answering that their was an unprompted act, because I don't really think many man, women and children in Afghanistan were involved in the voting for the 9/11 act of terror.

Terrorists, from wichever religious or political origin, find their soldiers in areas dominated by despair and rage. Try to understand the reasons for their despair and their rage, try to solve their problems. A terrorist group with no men has no power.

The situation in the middle east is very complicated and very fragile. In addition to that it's the place from where we take our fuel, and we do have some interest in having non-democratic forms of government in there, after all the fewer people you have to pay the cheaper the oil is.

Often we, as western countries, have messed around those areas to get benefit from it, not really thinking about consequences or the good of people leaving there.

Just some food for your brain: do you remember the students of Kandahar, the heroes that were fighting against the evil russians? Do you remember CIA training and supporting them to get to power in Afghanistan? Do you know how they are called nowadays? (Check out one good form of archive of popular feelings in time: movies. May I suggest Rambo III?) Do you know the evil northern alliance of Afghanistan? How do they differ from the peace keeping good hearted northern alliance we (us Europeans and you americans) just put in charge in Afghanistan?

One last question: could you help me try to remember who put Saddam Hussein in charge in Iraq and armed to fight against Iran?

Will we ever learn from history?

Sorry about this rant, but I spent the last month in the states having to deal daily with people thinking that Europeans were siding for the terrorists. No we don't! There is only one difference: after condemning the acts we tried to use our brains to understand what happened. I'm sorry, but I don't think I have seen many of the people in the states I talked to go any further that "we are good, they are bad, we kill them". And many had absolutely no idea who was "them".

Fabio