Apache better than GPL for open-source business? | The Open Road – CNET News
I have spent years advocating the GNU General Public License as the optimal open-source license for commercial open source.
Roughly nine years after I first became a fan of the GPL, I think I've been wrong.
My admiration for the GPL mostly stemmed from [...]
PESC.org: ADMISSION SAPPLICATION standard proposed (.pdf)
The Board of Directors of PESC, the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council, is pleased to announce that public comment period is now open on the proposed XML standard for submitting and exchanging admissions applications.
The proposed XML standards for the Admissions Application, Education Test Score Reporting and IPEDS upload are all [...]
DMTF to Develop Standards for Managing a Cloud Computing Environment
The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the organization bringing the IT industry together to collaborate on systems management standards development, validation, promotion and adoption, today announced that it has formed a group dedicated to addressing the need for open management standards for cloud computing. The "Open [...]
Open Source Activity Map (by Red Hat)
Red Hat has published the results of a project led with Georgia Institute of Technology. The project's objective was to research the state of open source around the world. Guess what? France is ranked #1 overall out of 75 countries !!
This is the map showing the relative level of [...]
Getting your Database out of the Toilet with Proper Schema Design
In a recent post, Errors in Schema Design affect EVERY Program; I questioned the reluctance of IT to hire data modelers–placing this area of responsibility upon DBAs and developers.
Bad schema design is exactly like an outhouse. With an outhouse there is no central plumbing, the [...]
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Standards Matter: The Battle For Interoperability Goes On
Yeah, it's a mess.
The takeaway: If you're guilty of relegating standards support to a "nice to have" feature rather than a requirement, you're part of the problem. If you want products to interoperate, be prepared to walk away if a vendor can't prove compliance. Don't be brushed off [...]
Blogging Innovation: Let's Start an Innovation Revolution to Remove Obstructions to Innovation
For decades, innovation in the mobile industry was obstructed by the mobile carriers. Walled gardens seeking to maximize airtime revenue ruled the day and delivering value to customers a distant concern. Carriers had ultimate power to determine what innovations customers would have access to [...]
Report: Venture funding deals hit 11-year low
The venture capital industry took another big hit in the first quarter of the year, according to new data from Dow Jones VentureSource.
Venture capitalists invested just $3.90 billion in U.S. companies during the quarter, a 50 percent decline from the almost $7.78 billion invested during the same quarter last [...]
OpenTravel Alliance Partners with PilotFish Technology for FastRez(TM) :: Hotel News Resource
In conjunction with the FastRez release, PilotFish is offering a bundle of its world class integration tools, the XCS eiPlatform and eiConsole, to enable the rapid implementation of the FastRez standard. Using the FastRez schemas as a common format, the PilotFish integration tools will [...]
One Small Step Towards Reducing License Proliferation
License proliferation has been a hot topic amongst the open source community for the past couple of years. I am happy to report that the Eclipse Foundation and IBM have collaborated to do our bit to help by superseding the Common Public License (CPL) with the Eclipse Public License [...]