June 2008 Archives

From the blog of Sun's Mike Dillon :

To be clear, Sun = FOSS. We have transformed our company and aligned it around the belief that giving away our technology and investing in related communities will create greater adoption of our intellectual property and ultimately redound to the benefit of our shareholders, customers and the open source community. When it comes to Sun's commitment to open source - "the horse is out of the barn". Not only that, it's also had foals.

Be careful where you step. The horse seems to have left other things around. As long as it can remain hidden behind Sun's NDA requirements and the FSF peeps continue to remain complacent, maybe you won't smell it either.

Hopefully they won't destroy Java in the process just to hit their numbers for a quarter or two.

Am I reading this wrong?

RedHat just announced a program where you can get JBoss App server (free as in beer software) running on an amazon EC2 instance for

"$119/month per customer plus $1.21 per hour for every deployed server, plus additional bandwidth and storage fees."

Putting aside the $119 and looking at published Amazon EC2 pricing, the $1.21/hr is a 50% markup on the $0.80/hour "Extra large instance", and a 1100% markup on the $0.10/hour "Small Instance", which I'd argue is enough for plenty of deployments. The $119 adds an additional $0.16 an hour.

Granted, you do save the costs of hiring someone to make a JBoss AMI for you, but still... amazing.

Simon has a stunning photo of the Sydney Opera House and seems to be tangling w/ said opera house on some bizarro Aussie copyright law, and he needs your vote. Go vote.

John Gage, who among many other things is the fondly-thought-of "voice of JavaOne" has left Sun for greener pastures. Pardon the pun.

I guess it's now "was the voice of". John, we'll miss you.

"...but for the grace...", I suppose.

You don't often see the CEO and board of a publicly traded company described as a stereotypical "James Bond" villain. Carl Icahn :

Until now I naively believed that self-destructive doomsday machines were fictional devices found only in James Bond movies. I never believed that anyone would actually create and activate one in real life. I guess I never knew about Yang and the Yahoo Board.