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New NetBeans, GlassFish and MySQL Bundle
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The NetBeans team released a new NB + MySQL + GF bundle (download) a couple of weeks ago but I didn't time to write about it. The bundle includes:
• NetBeans 6.1
See reviews and comments from James - a frequent NetBeans blogger - and Colin - a frequent MySQL blogger - |
New NetBeans, GlassFish and MySQL Bundle
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The NetBeans team released a new NB + MySQL + GF bundle (download) a couple of weeks ago but I didn't time to write about it. The bundle includes:
• NetBeans 6.1
See reviews and comments from James - a frequent NetBeans blogger - and Colin - a frequent MySQL blogger - |
Bitrock on center stage with its Network Service
You may never have heard of BitRock, the company that has traditionally competed with OpenLogic, SpikeSource, and SourceLabs in the "open-source stacks" business but has seen much more success with its excellent installers, which upwards of 60 percent of commercial open-source projects use including SugarCRM, JasperSoft, Ringside Networks, and more. The name may be unfamiliar to you, but not for long.
Why? Because BitRock is about to claim the center of the open-source world's attention, as Stephe Walli, an advisor to BitRock, pointed out two months ago following the Open Source Business Conference. It's called the Network, you're likely to be buying into one very soon, if you haven't already.
As open-source companies seek ways to monetize their code, a common theme has emerged: Networks. Red Hat has Red Hat Network. JBoss developed the JBoss Operations Network (recently graduating to 2.0 status). MySQL has its Monitor. And so on.
The problem with this approach is twofold: 1) It forces vendors to reinvent the Network wheel over and over again and 2) It leaves both vendors and customers isolated within one vendors Network offering. BitRock resolves this by providing a common infrastructure upon which the open-source vendor community can build, as Stephe notes:
...Memcached and MySQL Presentation
Here's my presentation on Memcached and MySQL:
You can download the sample files here:
Mike Olson: Sleepy cat no more
Mike Olson is on the entrepreneurial prowl again. The co-founder of Sleepycat, who sold his company to Oracle and recently left Oracle for a brief stint as a relaxed person, is back in action.
I talked a day ago with a company that has talked to Mike about an executive ...
Kickfire makes it easy to be green (and to save some too)!
You can find the official results here on the TPC(tm) (Transaction Processing Performance Council) website:
http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_price_perf_results.asp
http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_price_perf_results.asp?resulttype=noncluster
While the amazingly low price of the Kickfire Database Appliance 2400 will grab you (only about twice the price of a typical 4U MySQL database server) -- the amazing performance per watt is truly incredible. The 3RU Kickfire appliance used in the 300GB volume test consumes just 3RU of rack space and a measly 650watts of power.
To give an appropriate comparison, my home gaming PC contains an 800W power supply. Compared to other high performance database systems (comparison by wattage, not necessarily performance) that use tens (even hundreds) of thousands of watts, the Kickfire appliance is orders of magnitude more environmentally friendly.
Not only does it reduce the amount of physical space required, but it also reduces the costs of environmental control (cooling). It uses less manufacturing resources, is more portable between data centers and it requires less excess inventory (like spare hard disks) to maintain, all of which result in significant cost of maintenance savings.
This 'green' aspect is one of the major factors in my decision to join Kickfire, and I'm proud to be working for a company making such huge strides toward sustainable computing practices.
Full disclosure: I am a paid employee of Kickfire, Inc. The opinions expressed in my personal blog posts are my own and may not reflect those of the company. All facts and figures may be validated via the TPC website, and this blog does not represent an official posting of TPC-H data, or any other TPC related information.
Kickfire is a trademark of Kickfire, Inc.
TPCH, QphH and $/QphH are trademarks of the TPC. For additional information on the TPCH benchmark, please visit the Transaction Processing Performance Council's Web site at http://www.tpc.org/.
Open source is more than free: The Untangle experience
I've been saying for some time that open source is not a price tag, or at least is much more than that. In criticizing Oracle's "lite"/express approach to competing with MySQL years ago, I insisted that "free, as in price, is just one part of the open source puzzle. But it's not necessarily the most important one."
I stand by that claim, and received confirmation from Untangle this week.
Untangle is an open-source network gateway company. It started out as a proprietary software company, but turned to open source for growth. This doesn't always work well for companies, largely because many get the model and/or culture wrong.
Untangle, however, has done it right, and the downloads have followed. From 145 in June of 2007 to 41,419 in April of 2008, interest in Untangle has rocketed with its adoption of open-source licensing.
Is this just because its code is free now, and not because it's open source? A quick look at the data suggests that "free" isn't selling Untangle. Open source is.
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