Kategorie: Open Source
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A comet over PHProjekt 6
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So far PHProjekt 6 (P6, see http://phprojekt.com) is already enhanced with nice AJAX workflows and snappy user-experience. Nevertheless, we discussed a way to provide synchronous communication and direct information within the application. Everybody knows GoogleMail with its easy to use frontend. Maybe you use it for your daily work. In GoogleMail, there is no need…
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Former MySQL CEO represents Oracle at EC hearing?
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I just came across several blog posts regarding the Oracle/Sun/MySQL war, including this one. There are a lot of interesting clarifications and opinions, but I want to highlight this comment from MySQL’s founder Monty about Mårten Mickos which is worth reading. One excerpt: That could however explain why he [Mårten] is now so eager to…
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MySQL: from Midrange to the Enterprise market
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First of all, I want to link to a blog article written by the founder of MySQL to help MySQL being rescued – everybody can stand up and tell the European Commision why the Oracle/Sun deal threatens MySQL. Second, due to a personal request, I want to make clear that this posting reflects my personal…
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Developing desktop applications by using web technologies
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Looking how to develop a desktop application in a short term, I came accross "Titanium Developer". This Open-Source tool helps you to create desktop apps. The special feature about it is the possibility to use well-known Web-Technologies such as HTML, JavaScript and PHP. Thus, learning a new programming language is no longer necessary. Another advantage…
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Everybody can fork MySQL. But what about market penetration?
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When I talked with journalists, lawyers and analysts about the Oracle/Sun merger case questions were raised about the possibility to fork MySQL and that everybody who is not satisfied with Oracle’s future way regarding MySQL could do this. I don’t agree with that and I think it’s best to put Monty’s own words (found in…
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Oracle/MySQL – Project Peter – Monty’s dreams for BSD license
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These are tough days in the case of the Oracle/MySQL decision the EU faces. First of all, the lobbyists of Oracle achieved that the decision deadline will be extended from January, 19th to January, 27th 2010. Secondly, Monty recommended that a license change from GPL to BSD would be a great idea for MySQL’s future.…
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PHP_CodeBrowser Release version 0.1.0
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Mayflower is proud to announce the release of the open source tool PHP_CodeBrowser in the current version 0.1.0-alpha. What is PHP_CodeBrowser PHP_CodeBrowser is a tool mainly intended to be used in conjunction with CruiseControl. It provides a code browser for PHP files with syntax highlighting and colored error-sections found by quality assurance tools like PHPUnit…
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European commision hands down a formal objection to Oracle-Sun deal
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As eWeek reports, the EC handed down a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal. To quote the article: The regulators see a major conflict of interest in the world’s largest commercial database company owning its largest open source competitor. Oracle responded with a statement yesterday. To quote from it: It is well understood by those…