The View From 25B

To Russia With Love

This week I had a piece titled “The Innovation Economy – the Tipping Point for Open Source” published in one of the leading Open Source publications in Russia. My linguistic skills don't extend to Russian, but fortunately for me I have a couple of Russians on my team and one of them, Eugene Karapetyants, ...

What happens in Vegas….

...is reminiscent of what happens in the proprietary software industry! I've just returned from a trip to Vegas and, while it was supposed to be a vacation, I couldn't help but think of the many parallels that can be drawn between Vegas and the proprietary software industry. It started when a friend ...

Dropping ACID?

At a recent NoSQL event in San Francisco Michael Stonebraker predicted the end of the RDBMS. I haven't been keeping track of just how many times he's made this particular prediction but I suspect that if I had been counting I'd have run out of fingers, and moved onto toes, by now. ...

The Thunder from Down Under

For someone who never stops talking I've been remarkably quite on the blogging front of late. That's about to change! I've recently returned from my first ever trip to Australia and I have to tell you I can't wait to return next year. My punishment for never having visited Australia, in all the ...

One small step for Ingres; one giant leap for business software

Over my 20 years in the computer software industry I've witnessed tremendous improvements in chip speeds but have always lamented the fact that they never seem to equate to significant improvements in the speed at which my business software executes; in fact, it seems that things may have actually slowed ...

EasyIngres – Behind the announcement

[caption id="attachment_514" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Little Satan and Bruno"][/caption] You may have seen a press release earlier today announcing EasyIngres a toolset for PHP developers to quickly get started with Ingres. The Easy Ingres project is a community project with an interesting story behind it that I thought I'd share. A year or so ...

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 ...