Gazing Into The Clouds

Monday, April 7th, 2008

photo credit: Lodewijk van den Broek Cloud computing is garnering a lot of attention lately. There are wild rumors and announcements about Google, Microsoft, IBM and others entering the space. Additionally, startups like 10gen and Heroku also appear to be working on the same problem. Cloud computing will be a fast ...

Sun Gazes Into The Oracle

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Today Sun announced that they would acquire MySQL for one billlllion dollars. This is a surprising exit for the extremely popular open source database. It wasn't too long ago that Red Hat acquired JBoss for $350M. It appears as if MySQL wasn't able to fully monetize the consulting and enterprise ...