The View From 25B

Google’s Futile Push for World Domination - Take 2

I've updated this post after being pointed to a Google blog by J Hankinson http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html I've met a handful of billionaires in my day and I'm always intrigued by their insatiable greed. I always imagine them living a Dr Evil style existence and planning world domination. I thought of that this morning when ...

UK IUA Code Sprint - It Takes a Global Village

Last week the UK IUA held a very successful and well attended User Group meeting at the University of Westiminster in London. We decided to host a two day development code sprint immediately before the user group event, and I thought you'd be interested to learn more about the results. We had 16 participants with roughly ...

Open Source Bridge Conference

[caption id="attachment_456" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Open Source Bridge Conference"][/caption] I'm in Portland today and will be speaking at The Open Source Bridge conference later this morning. I was delighted to see when browsing the agenda over breakfast that close to 30% of the speakers at this event are female, and the topics ...

Fueling Innovation by Avoiding Vendor Lock-in

Earlier today we announced the availability of the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss. This stack is one of the products we defined as part of our "New Economics of IT" strategy. The stack bundles together Ingres and JBoss Developer Studio, and includes treats like JBoss Seam which is a GUI ...

A new addition to your bookshelf?

I first started using Ingres 20 years ago next month and over the years have built a collection of well-thumbed Ingres books. It has been almost 15 years since a new title dedicated to Ingres has been added to my collection. It's hard to live up to expectations that have gestated for ...

A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the White House

Earlier this year the BBC reported that Sun co-founder Scott McNealy had been asked by the Obama Administration to prepare a paper on open source. In an interview with the BBC McNealy said that he wanted to ensure the government does not get "locked in" to one specific vendor or ...

Has this pig got Swine Flu?

I've mentioned in the past that I am a big fan of what MySQL has achieved, and how they were a proof point for us when we decided to contribute Ingres to open source. I was just reading a rather discouraging article in The Register about a couple of Oracle Execs trotting over to ...

Control-Z

I was disappointed to recieve an email from Oracle, just moments ago, announcing the cancellation of their MySQL bashing webcast next week as it had promised to be the hightlight of my week. Ever the optimist I'm happy to see that Oracle is at least watching what we're up to at Ingres ...

An own goal for Oracle?

In my blog about the Oracle acquisition of Sun, earlier this week, I predicted that Oracle would mount a sales campaign to move MySQL customers with transactional applications to Oracle. I was amused to receive an invitation from Oracle last night to a webcast titled "Lower Total Cost ...

A Ray of Sunshine?

I didn’t think anything could lift my mood on this cold and gloomy Monday until I heard that Oracle was to acquire Sun. My immediate thought, albeit selfish, was that this was fantastic news for Ingres. I suspect that Oracle sales reps will push MySQL users ...