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May 27, 2006
Fear of an Open-Source Planet
This article from internet financial news has a table showing the recent growth in the database market accross various segments. Although the Open-Source databases have eaten into the commercial market a small amount, Oracle for instance still commands the lions share of it. And also note that ALL of them are still growing, albeit at different rates. Microsoft, IBM, Sybase, Ingres, and MySQL are all mentioned.
SearchOracle, always on the Open Source edge, talks a bit about oracle, and has some links including an interview with Andy Astor of EnterpriseDB otherwise known as Postgres.
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May 24, 2006
Growing Open-Source DB Market
The market for open-source databases is growing by leaps and bounds. This is a good article with plenty of statistics and links to relevant resources. Of course at the same time that the open-source market is growing, the commercial market for enterprise databases is growing as well, albeit slower.
All this points to more data being stored, and more administrators needed all around. Indeed.com job trends shows these figures for MySQL jobs (1/5%) and these figures for Oracle jobs (3%). That's 15 times as many Oracle job postings.
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Sugar On-Demand
The CEO of phenomenally popular SugarCRM talks with Search Open Source about on-demand CRM, Oracle, and Microsoft. Interesting insights from a man who has built a real business around the open-source technology model, and is finding success in so doing.
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May 23, 2006
NYSIA - IT Careers
This week the New York Software Industry Association sponsors an event titled Future of IT Careers in NYC. It's $20 for non-members, free for NYSIA members.
Also coming up in a couple of weeks is the New York Oracle User Group quarterly meeting on June 6th. This day long event features ten sessions in two tracks talking all about Oracle database and developer technologies.
Also in the evening on June 6th is the monthly NY Tech Meetup.
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May 10, 2006
FOSS Legal Issues?
Some companies are considering Open Source technologies, but having reservations brought on by legal concerns. The Software Freedom Law Center has an article about Sarbanes-Oxley & GPL and finds there is no special risk. For those not familiar, the GPL is one of the more popular open-source software licenses, but is really only one among many.
On the flip side of the issue, here's another article which raises claims of potential legal problems relating to intellectual property claims, and of all things, confidential code. An interesting article, it seems dubious at best that software whose source code is *necessarily* available for review and audit would be *more* a risk. If anything I'd think less.
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Dvorak on .NET & Other Comments
John Dvorak has an interesting article over at Market Watch entitled The Microsoft malaise. What caught my eye is his comment on .NET:
He's probably referring to LAMP, the phenomenally popular Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP (or Perl) framework that many websites are now built on.
The .Net framework that many believe is an example of how Microsoft can actually put together elegant and powerful architectures when it wants to, is being killed by Open Source systems that are free and almost just as powerful. Microsoft has been unable to cope with Open Source except to complain about it.
He's probably referring to LAMP the phenomenally popular platform based on Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP.
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May 06, 2006
Tech Publishing - Market
If you buy computer and technology books at all, you may have noticed that sometimes one can spot trends just by paying attention to what books are arriving on the shelves.
O'Reilly Radar has a really excellent three part series State of the Computer Book Market. Although I agree that one can spot trends, and learn something about where technologies are heading, you may be at a slight risk of paying attention to trends as in trendiness, rather than trends, as in the real underlying inertia of the industry. Keep that in mind, and read on. Part II and Part III.
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MySQL Performance Tuning
Just found this really excellent blog with the very original name MySQL Performance Blog!! Seriously, despite it's name, there is a lot of good information here if you're struggling with MySQL at all, or want to take your system to the next level.
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May 02, 2006
O'Reilly Radar - Database Job Market
I like O'Reilly's Radar for staying on top of the latest trends in the web, internet, and open source in general.
They have a really excellent in-depth article MySQL and the Database Job Market which I highly recommend.
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Certification Revisited
We talked about certification in Open Insights Newsletter 09 back in July 2005.
It seems the issue is perculating to the surface again, and employers are slowly becoming wise to the fact that often those seeking certification are those that don't have skills and real-world know-how in the first place.
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Some New Events in NYC
There are some new an interesting events of note coming up in NYC.
First there's Good Experience Live or GEL this Friday May 5th. Featured speakers include Seth Godin, Craig Newmark, Doug Rushkoff and many more.
Next there's a weekly technology networking group I want to bring your attention to called Mobile Monday New York.
And lastly Amit Gupta is hosting an interesting little project called Jelly a "semi-weekly work together". Good stuff!
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