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HP Announces Support For MySQL, JBoss

Posted by simoniker on from the i'm-not-the-boss-of-you dept.

Chroniton writes "According to InternetNews.com: 'HP stepped up its commitment to open source software Monday by pledging to offer and support the MySQL database server and JBoss application server software in its servers' - it's also mentioned: 'The deal is truly symbiotic. While MySQL and JBoss get backing from a technology driver such as HP, HP gets the added credibility of being cozy with open source, a label many enterprises and HP rivals, such as IBM and Dell, are working toward.'"

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  1. IBM... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    a label many enterprises and HP rivals, such as IBM and Dell, are working toward.'"
    IBM is already open source friendly. Dell isn't open source friendly and doesn't seem to be trying either.

    1. Re:IBM... by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Part of HP's plan had better include eliminating the planned obsolescence of their products. You used to have to pay $20 for a new printer for a CD to make it work with other windows versions. The open source community generally doesn't like the idea of having to buy a new printer every time there's a new kernel update (weekly?). HP's screwed us before with their DVD writers and other products...so IMO they've got to do a lot more than support open source to get my business. It would help if they built quality products that weren't designed to be replaced every 6-12 months.

  2. Their Crawler is Killing Sites by Nuclear+Elephant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't know if this has anything to do with HP's new plan for open source, but they seem to have a new web crawler that is beating on websites hosting open-source software and ignoring (not even requesting) the robots.txt file they're supposed to leash themselves to. I've noticed this on about 3 different websites and we've had to blackhole their address space indefinitely.

    1. Re:Their Crawler is Killing Sites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting
      1. I don't know if this has anything to do with HP's new plan for open source, but they seem to have a new web crawler that is beating on websites hosting open-source software and ignoring (not even requesting) the robots.txt file they're supposed to leash themselves to. I've noticed this on about 3 different websites and we've had to blackhole their address space indefinitely.

      Why not put in a poison pill page that is not referenced in robots.txt and is linked with human readable text like "this is a link to an invalid page to catch bad bots!"?

      That way, if any group attempts to index a site you can either feed them garbage (serves them right) or auto-blackhole any crawler that attempts to dig too much into the poisoned area?

      The blackhole could be temporary, elminiating the need for you to maintan the list at all. (Don't want to ban on the first error...just in case to cover some odd but valid situation you're not aware of that is somehow OK...though I can't think of any off hand!)

      I'm sure there are a few of these scripts out there...shouldn't be too hard to find one.

  3. HP support by KoriaDesevis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The article states that HP is giving testing and hardware support to these packages, and I assume that means they'll come up with a nifty little logo to show that it's "HP-Ready"... While that's all well and good, will they offer third-party technical support to users when these packages crash on HP servers? If not, who gets left holding the bag? If it were not open source, it would be cut and dry, but with the packages being open source and freely available, the issue of technical support gets blurred. The article didn't go into this fine point.

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  4. Dual Licensing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Maybe HP can get the licensing changed to GPL only on MySQL. And LGPL on the client libs.

    That would be a helpful contribution.

  5. Re:Your analogy is flawed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm sorry, but what he's asking for is more like someone who goes to the ice cream store and demands a different flavour of ice cream - one that tastes a hell of a lot better, and costs a hell of a lot less.

    So... You're saying pickle flavored ice cream? Fine... I'll bite.

    The point is that when enough people demand pickles (or pickle flavored ice cream), then the market will respond. Right now, linux lovers just aren't that significant (sorry- just being honest).

    Right now, the fact is that TASTE is subjective, and you are in the (miniscule) minority. Price don't seem to matter. Look at generic web clients. Though linux has been around longer than OS-X, you typically see more OS-X browsers than Linux. And OS-X isn't cheap! Plus manufacturers get deals from MicroSux to preload Windoze onto all their machines (largely negating your cost factor).

    Linux is a great server. It's a great embedded platform. It makes great appliances. It does NOT make a great desktop. I hope someday it does (and which, you can expect MS to offer "Longhorn Home" or "Lite" as a free download).

  6. Re:Apple already does this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nobody runs OS X as a unix. It performs like a dog. Maybe for some school work.