>> It means they can deploy and test against a running version of Oracle with no need to worry about "developer program" memberships, trials that expire, and
similar crud.
Sorry, but you can do it right now. Developer licence for Oracle is free, just download and run it for developing purposes - no licence expiries at all.
Ed
MySQL CEO: Open source & MySQL will rise, legal foes will fall
By Jan Stafford
13 Jan 2005 | SearchEnterpriselInux.com
2004 was a portent of things to come for Linux in 2005, both because of what didn't happen (SCO Group's victory) and what did (the rise of open source software), according to Marten Mickos, CEO of Sweden-based MySQL AB. In this interview, he predicts how those events, which included the success of MySQL's database, will play out in 2005.
What do you think was the top story in the Linux and open source arena in 2004?
Marten Mickos:None of the legal attacks on open source or Linux have been successful. None of that stuff has gone anywhere. That's the biggest story.
On that subject, MySQL has come to the conclusion that software patents will ultimately be demonstrated to be harmful to the industry. So, we are sponsoring a campaign in the European Union today to educate politicians and decision makers on the negative impact of software patents.
What trends in 2004 will have important consequences in 2005?
Mickos: Large software companies, like CA, began coming to open source more strongly than ever before. In 2004, the thought caught on that open source indeed is a smarter way of producing software. It is of higher quality at lower cost and that is sort of a no-brainer. The examples are there for all to see -- Apache, Sendmail, PHP, Linux, MySQL -- and they've reached maturity, all being at least 10 years old.
Also, Linux [cemented its position] as the fastest growing operating system. There is growth in adoption of all of the versions. There are the conservative parts of the markets that are staying with the 2.4 kernel, but there are the new guys that are going with the 2.6. I think that the sign of a maturing product is when new versions aren't that shockingly different anymore.
Why did MySQL make so much progress in the enterprise market in 2004?
Mickos:We've been working with the enterprise market and getting ready for the enterprise market. So, in 2004, we wrapped up our services packages and built a consulting team. We came out with new versions, specifically 4.1. Now, we are getting ready for 5.0 next year. In terms of partners, we've established and are starting partnerships with strategic partners that are needed in the enterprise space.
What will be the important trends in the Linux and open source space in 2005?
Mickos: We will see increased growth, faster growth than before, in adoption of open source in the enterprise, not just for MySQL, but across the board. I think that JBoss will be experiencing a lot of growth. The new, slightly younger companies -- like SourceLabs and SpikeSource -- that are coming up will enjoy that growth. There are more enterprise customers who are ready to take the step because IBM, HP, CA and most of the other big companies are standing behind open source.
What challenges do you see facing businesses that are going to start using more open source software in 2005?
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Mickos: We deal a lot with enterprise customers, and we ask them what problems they foresee and what questions remain unanswered. Their No. 1 concern is training the staff. They are asking themselves whether they need to retrain people or whether they have the skills in-house already.
The good news is that most corporations discover, when they ask around, that they have open source skills in-house. That is an important milestone for the open source movement. Many corporate IT people have used open source products at home or, sometimes secretly, in business projects.
Of course, formal training may still be needed. That is the big hurdle that large organizations need to jump as they adopt more open source.
What is ahead for MySQL in 2005?
Mickos: We will come out with version 5.0, which is a very significant release for us. It will have many new features that customers have asked for, and will make MySQL even easier for large and small corporations to use.
I know that even large radio stations use 128Kbit sampling frequency. I have heard musicians saying they cannot distinguish the difference between the audio sound played by CD and MP3 with 128Kbit encoding. I have switched from 128K to VBR 320K but just because "that is a good style".
>>In contrast, Java follows the all-in-one-VM >>paradigm: everything is processed inside one virtual machine running in one operating system process.
Well, recently Sun VM and Linux kernel developers have done a lot to improve threading support in kernel and the combination of SUN VM 1.4.1 and kernel 2.6 scales very good.
The report seems biased. It has a lot of statements like "Mr. Ibragimov has demonstraded such skills" or
"Ibragimov has been posting to newsgroups since at least 1998".
So f...g what? Who can assure me that demonstration of IT skills means I am a virus vriter ? An for Crist sake - I post to newsgroups since 1996. Does that prove my relationship with wirus writers/writings ?
MS policy is a fat desktop. Web software can be run anywere and on Linux which is what MS is totally not interested in. Therefore we don't see much changes in MS Exploder.
The time will tell us if Bill&Ballmer have chosen the right strategy... Sadly there guys have enough cash to play with it for a long time.
Really great news ! I decided to migrate to SUSE 9.1 and was very close as regards bying the Connector.
Now I will wait till Novel will relese their desktop. THis is really a huge step towards interoperability in large corporations where people use MS server applications.
If I were MS and SCO, I would probably do some cleaning (let's call it housekeeping) as regards e-mail archives. Loosing previously back-up ed Exchange server data is also a good idea for Darl 'n Bill.
Yee, but I cannot live without Clippy.
From CodeWeavers site:
"One thing that does not quite work though is Clippy. While it runs well enough for a screenshot it will cause Word to misbehave. This is why it is disabled by default."
I don't think Novell will change this policy - their purchase of SUSE had a commercial basis, so nobody from Novell salesreps will be happy to see SUSE sales going down due to the fact that most customers find it convenient to download their product for free.
To my mind, the most pretty software download policy belongs to Oracle. You can download everything for free from their OTN network. The software downloaded works OK without any key activation. Brilliance for developers. For run-time environment one will buy the licence anyways.
This is pretty interesting. Can be chose one or the title is already prepared for him ? Can the society participate in choosing the right title ?
I am sure, Slashdot crowd would vote for 'Your Billness'.
I guess every person whose first and last name sounds similar to Microsoft and has registered a domain, is in the same risk group.
Happily Mike Rowe doesn't sound like 'SCO' does he ?
Yee. These BSD guys sound exactly like Linux guys sounded during mid 90ties - it's cool, even the soundblaster (usb for bsd guys) is working properly. It's really cool:)
and use a computer for browsing the web and checking email.
Well, you don't need dual-proc G5 for web browsing and e-mail! An acient PII with 32MB ram and WindowsMe would be more than enough!
Seriously - I remember, that one of the OS/2 versions coming out atfer Warp3 - I guess the name was either OS/2 v.4 or Aurora had a voice recognition software included. And that was in late 90ties on intel486 hardware with 16MB of ram.
Which leaves us with CE.NET: It's got surprisingly good performance [bests VxWorks in tests], it's got all the multimedia codecs of Windows, and it's got built in support for ActiveDirectory
Why one would need Active Directory and MS codecs for biometrics data processing real-time system ?
>That's Oracle's fault, though, so no digs on Red >Hat for that. I also really, really wish that >Red Hat would include some more filesystems. >Ext3 is okay, but for larger database files, I >would much rather be using XFS.
I think you should put Oracle on raw devices rather than to filesystems.
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I am sure AMD Hypertrasport is the king who rules! Unless Intel will come with something similar...
I have two words to say - Remote Desktop !
Yet another Fremont Begemoth from Redmond. Good luck, Billy !
>> It means they can deploy and test against a running version of Oracle with no need to worry about "developer program" memberships, trials that expire, and similar crud. Sorry, but you can do it right now. Developer licence for Oracle is free, just download and run it for developing purposes - no licence expiries at all. Ed
MySQL CEO: Open source & MySQL will rise, legal foes will fall By Jan Stafford 13 Jan 2005 | SearchEnterpriselInux.com 2004 was a portent of things to come for Linux in 2005, both because of what didn't happen (SCO Group's victory) and what did (the rise of open source software), according to Marten Mickos, CEO of Sweden-based MySQL AB. In this interview, he predicts how those events, which included the success of MySQL's database, will play out in 2005. What do you think was the top story in the Linux and open source arena in 2004? Marten Mickos:None of the legal attacks on open source or Linux have been successful. None of that stuff has gone anywhere. That's the biggest story. On that subject, MySQL has come to the conclusion that software patents will ultimately be demonstrated to be harmful to the industry. So, we are sponsoring a campaign in the European Union today to educate politicians and decision makers on the negative impact of software patents. What trends in 2004 will have important consequences in 2005? Mickos: Large software companies, like CA, began coming to open source more strongly than ever before. In 2004, the thought caught on that open source indeed is a smarter way of producing software. It is of higher quality at lower cost and that is sort of a no-brainer. The examples are there for all to see -- Apache, Sendmail, PHP, Linux, MySQL -- and they've reached maturity, all being at least 10 years old. Also, Linux [cemented its position] as the fastest growing operating system. There is growth in adoption of all of the versions. There are the conservative parts of the markets that are staying with the 2.4 kernel, but there are the new guys that are going with the 2.6. I think that the sign of a maturing product is when new versions aren't that shockingly different anymore. Why did MySQL make so much progress in the enterprise market in 2004? Mickos:We've been working with the enterprise market and getting ready for the enterprise market. So, in 2004, we wrapped up our services packages and built a consulting team. We came out with new versions, specifically 4.1. Now, we are getting ready for 5.0 next year. In terms of partners, we've established and are starting partnerships with strategic partners that are needed in the enterprise space. What will be the important trends in the Linux and open source space in 2005? Mickos: We will see increased growth, faster growth than before, in adoption of open source in the enterprise, not just for MySQL, but across the board. I think that JBoss will be experiencing a lot of growth. The new, slightly younger companies -- like SourceLabs and SpikeSource -- that are coming up will enjoy that growth. There are more enterprise customers who are ready to take the step because IBM, HP, CA and most of the other big companies are standing behind open source. What challenges do you see facing businesses that are going to start using more open source software in 2005? Read more on open source databases here MySQL exec: Open source to be New Year's resolution for many CA swings at Oracle, MySQL with Ingres Mickos: We deal a lot with enterprise customers, and we ask them what problems they foresee and what questions remain unanswered. Their No. 1 concern is training the staff. They are asking themselves whether they need to retrain people or whether they have the skills in-house already. The good news is that most corporations discover, when they ask around, that they have open source skills in-house. That is an important milestone for the open source movement. Many corporate IT people have used open source products at home or, sometimes secretly, in business projects. Of course, formal training may still be needed. That is the big hurdle that large organizations need to jump as they adopt more open source. What is ahead for MySQL in 2005? Mickos: We will come out with version 5.0, which is a very significant release for us. It will have many new features that customers have asked for, and will make MySQL even easier for large and small corporations to use.
Background noise comes from a cheap (well standard on some motherborads) soundcard...
I know that even large radio stations use 128Kbit sampling frequency. I have heard musicians saying they cannot distinguish the difference between the audio sound played by CD and MP3 with 128Kbit encoding. I have switched from 128K to VBR 320K but just because "that is a good style".
That it can beat Counter-Strike !
>>In contrast, Java follows the all-in-one-VM >>paradigm: everything is processed inside one virtual machine running in one operating system process. Well, recently Sun VM and Linux kernel developers have done a lot to improve threading support in kernel and the combination of SUN VM 1.4.1 and kernel 2.6 scales very good.
The report seems biased. It has a lot of statements like "Mr. Ibragimov has demonstraded such skills" or "Ibragimov has been posting to newsgroups since at least 1998". So f...g what? Who can assure me that demonstration of IT skills means I am a virus vriter ? An for Crist sake - I post to newsgroups since 1996. Does that prove my relationship with wirus writers/writings ?
MS policy is a fat desktop. Web software can be run anywere and on Linux which is what MS is totally not interested in. Therefore we don't see much changes in MS Exploder. The time will tell us if Bill&Ballmer have chosen the right strategy... Sadly there guys have enough cash to play with it for a long time.
Really great news ! I decided to migrate to SUSE 9.1 and was very close as regards bying the Connector. Now I will wait till Novel will relese their desktop. THis is really a huge step towards interoperability in large corporations where people use MS server applications.
If I were MS and SCO, I would probably do some cleaning (let's call it housekeeping) as regards e-mail archives. Loosing previously back-up ed Exchange server data is also a good idea for Darl 'n Bill.
Yee, but I cannot live without Clippy. From CodeWeavers site: "One thing that does not quite work though is Clippy. While it runs well enough for a screenshot it will cause Word to misbehave. This is why it is disabled by default."
Despite the parent post is a troll, just couple of things: Linux, Nokia mobiles - I guess you own these things :)
I don't think Novell will change this policy - their purchase of SUSE had a commercial basis, so nobody from Novell salesreps will be happy to see SUSE sales going down due to the fact that most customers find it convenient to download their product for free. To my mind, the most pretty software download policy belongs to Oracle. You can download everything for free from their OTN network. The software downloaded works OK without any key activation. Brilliance for developers. For run-time environment one will buy the licence anyways.
This is pretty interesting. Can be chose one or the title is already prepared for him ? Can the society participate in choosing the right title ? I am sure, Slashdot crowd would vote for 'Your Billness'.
I guess every person whose first and last name sounds similar to Microsoft and has registered a domain, is in the same risk group. Happily Mike Rowe doesn't sound like 'SCO' does he ?
Yee. These BSD guys sound exactly like Linux guys sounded during mid 90ties - it's cool, even the soundblaster (usb for bsd guys) is working properly. It's really cool :)
and use a computer for browsing the web and checking email. Well, you don't need dual-proc G5 for web browsing and e-mail! An acient PII with 32MB ram and WindowsMe would be more than enough!
Seriously - I remember, that one of the OS/2 versions coming out atfer Warp3 - I guess the name was either OS/2 v.4 or Aurora had a voice recognition software included. And that was in late 90ties on intel486 hardware with 16MB of ram.
Fine that MS is going to catch up.
Your post is a troll. Mandrake distro does not support 486.
Which leaves us with CE.NET: It's got surprisingly good performance [bests VxWorks in tests], it's got all the multimedia codecs of Windows, and it's got built in support for ActiveDirectory Why one would need Active Directory and MS codecs for biometrics data processing real-time system ?
>That's Oracle's fault, though, so no digs on Red >Hat for that. I also really, really wish that >Red Hat would include some more filesystems. >Ext3 is okay, but for larger database files, I >would much rather be using XFS. I think you should put Oracle on raw devices rather than to filesystems.