Archive for the 'Google' Category
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Google heading further into apps…
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2129006,00.asp?kc=EWWHNEMNL051707EOAD
Google Inc.’s corporate tagline has become “Search, Ads and Apps,” reflecting a shift beyond search and advertising into online software applications, its chief executive said on Thursday
Monday, May 14th, 2007
Bill Hilf… misquoted or misinformed?
I saw this article today and have to wonder if Bill is either misquoted or just severely misinformed…
The Free Software movement is dead,” Hilf said, in a typical quip, as quoted in “The Bangkok Post.” “Linux doesn’t exist in 2007. Even [Linux creator] Linus [Torvalds] has a job today.”
I’m curious if he was just misquoted, but that does happen. Obviously that was a terribly poor judgment as the free software movement is most certainly alive and well, and there are more people working on Linux than just IBM, Oracle, and Canonical. Bill, take a look at who really contributed to the 2.6.20 kernel Bill - there are many contributors (nearly 2,000 had code accepted just into the 2.6.20 kernel). The free software ecosystem is actually growing further – and many of the participants are Microsoft’s own long time partners. And yes, many of them do make a living (it’s hard to code Linux kernel code while wandering and asking for money on the streets). That is actually Microsoft’s real problem – these guys (and gals) are making a living – it’s an economically self-sustaining model. Sure, they are not making $92M/day like others, but they make a living and enjoy what they do.
Maybe that’s what has Microsoft so afraid that they’re reverting to their usual tricks (e.g. not competing on technology). After all, there used to be a huge force of Wintel+Dell, but even that partnership has changed…
Consider this: Google, IBM, HP, Dell, Intel, AMD, Novell, Red Hat, Oracle, Sun, SAP, Accenture, China, India, Ingram Micro, Tech Data, Avnet, vast numbers of global and local resellers, consultants, ISVs, and system integrators are all making vast fortunes for their shareholders off of Linux. Will the industry just let FUD tricks stand in their way??? Heck no, this industry invented FUD and certainly knows how to defeat it.
The real problem is that the industry is already defeating it. The MS monopoly is under attack from all sides: ODF, Linux Desktop, Linux server, Adobe RIA, Eclipse RCP, etc, etc and I see these latest threats as last resort efforts from a company clearly concerned about its long term growth. That’s a natural response, but another way to compete is to just fix your products and deliver something your customers want.
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Google patches MySQL for availability, monitoring, and recovery
List of patch features:
- SemiSyncReplication – block commit on a master until at least one slave acknowledges receipt of all replication events.
- MirroredBinlogs – maintain a copy of the master’s binlog on a slave
- TransactionalReplication – make InnoDB and slave replication state consistent during crash recovery
- UserTableMonitoring – monitor and report database activity per account and table
- InnodbAsyncIo – support multiple background IO threads for InnoDB
- FastMasterPromotion – promote a slave to a master without restart
You can read all about it here.
Friday, April 20th, 2007
Google shows Wall St. the “Wow”
Not this kind of “Wow”, but rather, the beat earnings estimates by 38 cents per share kind of “Wow”.
Shares are up $18.84 in early trading…
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Google SoC Gentoo Projects
http://code.google.com/soc/gentoo/about.html
BaseGUI should be interesting… one issue I’ve always had is by the time you’ve installed Gentoo… you tend to know where all the configs are…. but for new users, I can see the value. Also looks like GNAP support is a big play with two SoC projects.
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Ballmer thinks Google is ‘cute’
Hmmm… could they be in denial? In some respects I do agree – Google is growing its headcount probably a bit too fast. You can only do so much with that many bright people and Google clearly has one revenue producing product that funds everything else. However, for Microsoft to say that… makes me laugh. I guess Ballmer may have learned something and is trying to educate others now??
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
IBM and Google team up to deliver Google Gadgets to corporate WebSphere Portal users
Very cool news:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2099449,00.asp
Customers who use WebSphere Portal to build corporate Web sites will have access to more than 4,000 Google Gadgets, which are compact, pre-programmed applets and Web services that provide links to a variety of online information services, said Steven Ricketts, IBM’s WebSphere Portal program director.
They include links to research databases, package delivery tracking systems, newswires, maps, podcast searches or YouTube videos—virtually any kind of information service that might be relevant to a business or consumer Web portal, he said.
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