Sometimes I forget how great The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was. Carson and McMahon were hilarious together.
Yet another reason to wait on the 3G S upgrade for us in the U.S.
View from the Adobe Bar patio, a good place to be while in Taos.
Some of the new photos from our latest trip to Taos have been posted to my MobileMe Gallery. Not many this time around, but some great shots of the Taos mountain.
MySQL inventor Michael “Monty” Widenius shares his thoughts on the deal and its impact on MySQL.
What could be Oracle’s plan with MySQL? Three different plans come to mind:
- They are going to kill MySQL (either directly or by not developing/supporting it fully)
- MySQL will get sold of to another entity, either because Oracle doesn’t want it or becasue of anti-trust laws.
- They will embrace MySQL and Open Source and put their technical expertise on it to ensure that MySQL continues to be the most popular advanced Open Source database.
–Michael Widenius, Founder and original developer of MySQL.
Though he hopes for the third option, he doesn’t seem to have much faith in Oracle and its open source efforts. He also questions the idea of “owning” open source software, noting that communities are more important than trademarks.
It appears the roots of MySQL are already being reborn in Monty Program Ab. If this is a successful effort, I think MySQL enthusiasts will be fine, even if the database they use in no longer branded MySQL.
…”I guarantee you it will be hard to sell an iPod five or seven years from now when every cell phone can access your entire music library wherever you are.” — Sun CEO, Scott McNealy in a 2006 article at The Register.
Being big tech industry news, MacRumors posted a note on the Oracle buyout of Sun. It points out that Sun attempted to buy Apple once, and there were two occasions where the companies nearly merged. MR cites a 2006 article at The Register with Sun co-founder Bill Joy that I quoted above.
The article points out Scott McNealy’s hesitance toward Apple, especially the long range success of the iPod, which prompted the quote. In retrospect, that quote looks so funny with my iPhone setting on my desk and talks that Apple is developing technology to stream music from your desktop to you Internet-connected iPhone or iPod anywhere in the world. Three years later, Apple is going strong, and Sun has been gobbled up.
