Oracle President Safra Catz was also heard to remark…
“all your database are belong to us”

Although it’s funny there’s some truth in that. Sun started supporting PostgreSQL and later on bought MySQL AB.

Oracle had already bought InnoDB but now MySQL is theirs. Hurray for forks.

I wonder what Oracle will do to MySQL. Oh and don’t forget those partnerships with Dell and HP for Oracle’s business and Sun’s partnerships with Dell, HP, Microsoft and let’s not forget IBM.

Oh IBM…IBM’s execs must be  running those numbers again looking at the bargain they let go.

Oracle just positioned itself as a one stop shop for solutions to big businesses. From the bottom hardware all the way to consulting with a new OS, DB, Middleware and all the Software solutions from continuous aquisitions in the middle, many big companies will be sending a lot of money Oracle’s way for that package. It’s a big pie. It’s IBM’s turf. See the bargain?

Time will tell what will happen to Sun’s R&D, some nice products and technologies coming out of there, to MySQL, to Oracle’s focus on Unbreakable, a RedHat Linux fork because now they own Solaris.

Interesting times we live in…

Goodbye Grandma.

Claims of “responsible for more than 75% global spam” aren’t easy to believe so I decided to check two numbers in a totally unscientific test: my Gmail spam count on November 12th, the day of the article and 1 month later which is today.

I never clear my Spam “folder”, I use it as a thermometer. One day I’ll graph it just for fun and record keeping. 

And what about those numbers? I’m happy to report that the 3127 messages I had on November 12th have gone down to 1766 today!

I bought what seems to be the most recommended book in the area: Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X - Third Edition, by Aaron Hillegass.
Although I’m not a programmer by profession I started coding in C when I was 12 and C++ some years later so I’m hoping Objective-C won’t be a showstopper.
I already have 2 projects in mind, more on that later.

I expect to have a review of the book in a few days.

I named him Romeo after I found him very young inside the suspension of an Alfa Romeo.

He was the youngest of 3 cats in the house but still managed to teach something to the other ones: he knocked on the door.

The garden door on the back of the house had a ring like doorknob. He streched all the way to the doorknob and (always) knocked 3 times with it so to get our attention and get in. If no one opened the door promptly he would (always) repeat the knocking with a different speed. Amazing

A very good friend on cold nights and a real pain in the ass on hot nights. Not only he slept on the bed but had to sleep inside it and glued to me.

Oh and I often caught him sleeping on top of my MacBook Pro. What can I say, it was hot and apparently comfortable.

So long my friend, you’ll be missed.

Romeo set on Flickr

 I’m going to reset the configuration to default again and replicate the setup. With that confirmed, I’ll post a howto tomorrow if time permits.

FreeBSD 7.0 is out!

Here’s an interesting article on Onlamp where Federico Biancuzzi interviews two dozen FreeBSD developers responsible for several of the new enhancements in the 7.0 Release.

I’m mostly proud to see a fellow Portuguese on that developer list, Rui Paulo which I’m lucky to know.

I’m waiting for some interesting presentations in order to decide if I’m going.

Low cost flights to Barcelona can’t be the excuse not to go

I have accepted a new challenge: a job at CSO - Chief Security Officers

I actually started last week, but preparing to move to a new house is taking my free time.

ps: CSO is looking for someone (junior) with a Networking/Security profile. If you’re interested or know someone drop me a line.