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jeudi, 30 juin 2011
Par Stephane Sales le jeudi, 30 juin 2011,
Le risque de l'individualisation de l'internet - Blogs InternetActu.net
Cette étude montrait qu'en 9 ans, alors qu'un consensus scientifique s'établissait sur le changement climatique, la part des républicains pensant que la terre se réchauffait passait de 49 % à 29 %, celle des démocrates de 60% à 70 % ...
mercredi, 4 février 2009
Par Stephane Sales le mercredi, 4 février 2009,
Linux-Unix Cheat Sheets - The Ultimate Collection
This is a compilation of approx 70 cheat sheets for Linux users. There are a grip load of commands that Linux users have at hand which can seem very daunting to a novice.
mardi, 29 janvier 2008
Par Stephane Sales le mardi, 29 janvier 2008,
Espoo, Finland and Oslo, Norway , 28 January - 2008 - Nokia and Trolltech ASA today announced that they have entered into an agreement that Nokia will make a public voluntary tender offer to acquire Trolltech (www.trolltech.com), a company headquartered in Oslo, Norway and publicly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Trolltech is a recognized software provider with world-class software development platforms and frameworks. In addition to the key software assets, its talented team will play an important role in accelerating the implementation of Nokia's software strategy.
"Trolltech and Nokia share the goal of accelerating the adoption of Trolltech's Qt based technology in the commercial market and in the open source community," said Haavard Nord, CEO and founder of Trolltech. Eirik Chambe-Eng, Chief Troll and co-founder of Trolltech continues "We are thrilled to join forces with Nokia. The company's innovative culture and resources will give our employees new and exciting possibilities and fulfill our vision of "Qt everywhere"."
Nokia intends to continue to enhance Trolltech products through active and ongoing development, for both desktop and mobile. To further stimulate industry innovation based on Trolltech's products, Nokia plans to continue to license Trolltech technology under both commercial and open source licenses.
Nokia to acquire Trolltech to accelerate software strategy's Trolltech
mercredi, 16 janvier 2008
Par Stephane Sales le mercredi, 16 janvier 2008,
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database
Sun Growth Strategy Accelerates With New Position in $15 Billion Database Market SANTA CLARA, CA January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.
We announced big news today - our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we're acquiring MySQL AB.
But the biggest news of the day is... we're putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP. If you're an industry insider, you'll know what that means - we're acquiring MySQL AB, the company behind MySQL, the world's most popular open source database.
Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: Helping Dolphins Fly
What does the acquisition of MySQL by Sun mean for MySQL users?
Given Sun's proven track record as the largest contributor to Open Source, I think MySQL users have plenty of reason to feel happy about the acquisition. There are many companies that attempt to ride the wave of positive attention towards Open Source, but in my judgement, Sun gets it right. Sun gets Open Source. Java has been released under the GPL. There the OpenSolaris operating system. There's Open Office / Star Office. There's the GlassFish application server. There's the NetBeans IDE tool. And more.
Sun's track record is embodied by individuals with a solid set of FOSS values, such as Simon Phipps (Sun's Chief Open Source Officer), Ian Murdock (Debian founder, now Sun's Chief OS Strategist), and Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL lead). I've met all three in various FOSS arenas, I respect their work, and I am looking forward to be working closely with them.
Anxiety on the part of MySQL users may stem from Sun's success with Java and Solaris. Will MySQL's support for other programming languages and operating systems now be given less attention?
Absolutely not. MySQL is still being managed by the same people, and the charter is still the same. There is no need for reducing the set of platforms or languages. It only makes sense for us to continue to support defacto Web development standards like LAMP, as well as emerging ones like Ruby and Eclipse. This deal is about addition, not subtraction.
But let's dwell on the topic of Solaris a bit. Solaris has a special position in the heart of MySQL, as it was the first platform under which MySQL was developed. Linux came second. Internally, code coverage tests were long performed just on Sun. And with the DTrace probes planned as part of 6.0, some types of optimisation of MySQL applications are the easiest on Solaris.
I would expect that having access to the topmost Solaris and Java experts within the same company will accelerate our development for the benefit of MySQL users on the Solaris platform, and in the Java environment, respectively.
But I don't expect that in any way to be at the cost of other popular operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS/X, other Unixes etc.) or development environments (PHP, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, ODBC, C++, C#, VB etc.). MySQL grew with LAMP and MySQL without LAMP at its core is simply unimaginable. It was MySQLs part of LAMP that interested Sun in the first place. Hence I don't see Sun having a platform migration strategy, but to continue to be an integral part of the dot in .com.
So while the news may be especially good for MySQL users on Solaris and/or Java, the news is definitely good irrespective of environment: As part of Sun, the MySQL database will have immediate access to technical, marketing, OSS developer relations and sales rescources that would have taken us years to build as an independent company.
What does the acquisition of MySQL by Sun mean for the core MySQL community?
I'd like to think that the acquisition of MySQL by Sun will be seen as good news also by the core group of users who form the active MySQL community. This is because Sun is a safe haven for MySQL. Sun knows Open Source, and to the extent things change, I expect Sun to add value to our community. I don't expect huge change, though. We continue to work with our quality contributors, we continue to provide our MySQL Forums, the Planet MySQL blog aggregator, we remain on the #mysql-dev and #mysql channels on Freenode, we provide MySQL University lessons, we meet at the MySQL Users Conference. We'll put effort into connecting the many FOSS enthusiasts and experts at Sun \u2014 whom we will now learn to know better - with our active user community.
mardi, 18 septembre 2007
Par Stephane Sales le mardi, 18 septembre 2007,
We will continue to make our software available for download and continue to offer Zimbra software and support as usual. This evolution further allows Zimbra to exceed its current (and future) customer expectations by leveraging the world class Yahoo! email experience and expertise. Partnering continues to be a very important pillar of Yahoo!'s strategy and this combination will have a renewed focus on partnerships across the globe including our 350+ VAR and hosting partners. The combination of the two companies will only enhance the level of commitment and support to our hosting partners who will remain a key focus for us moving forward.
dimanche, 19 août 2007
Par Stephane Sales le dimanche, 19 août 2007,
After Xen acquired by citrix, this the turn of Clamav.
Under the terms of the agreement with ClamAV founder Tomasz Kojm and four other members of the project, Sourcefire acquired the rights and trademarks to the project, the five developers' copyrights and all Web content. Sourcefire, which already owns rights to the open-source Snort intrusion detection system created by company founder Martin Roesch, said it will maintain ClamAV much in the same way as it has done with Snort.
jeudi, 16 août 2007
Par Stephane Sales le jeudi, 16 août 2007,
Is this the end of the open-source version of Xen ? We will see.
Though XenSource is being acquired, Levine pointed out that the open source work will remain a separate initiative in some respects.
"Think of the open source Xen project as being run by the community," Levine said.
XenSource is involved as leader and active partner but there is a separation between what XenSource does with its commercial products and what goes on in the Xen open source community. It's a separation that Levine is intended to make even stronger.
"To continue to promote open source leadership we'll be working on an independent body to help manage and take over the Xen project."
mardi, 27 juin 2006
Par Stephane Sales le mardi, 27 juin 2006,
Il y moins d'un an LDLC annoncait en grande pompe tirer un trait sur l'open source pour alléger son administration et réduire ses coûts.
Apparemment la soit disante réduction des coûts a été pour le mieux insuffisante :
L'entreprise lyonnaise a publié ses résultats annuels pour 2005-2006. Le chiffre d'affaires de LDLC se stabilise à 123,9 millions d'euros contre 144,7 millions il y a un an. Au second semestre, le cybermarchand a reussi à réduire ses pertes à 0,4 million d'euros, contre 2 millions au premier semestre, où le changement de plate-forme logistique a fortement impacté les résultats. Sur l'exercice complet, LDLC affiche donc des pertes de 2,4 millions d'euros contre un excédent l'année dernière de 2,2 millions d'euros.
dimanche, 11 juin 2006
Par Stephane Sales le dimanche, 11 juin 2006,
Vu sur le standblog :
On pouvait reprocher à Google la publicité contextuelle dans GMail. Dans la mesure où les messages sont stockés sur leurs serveurs, cela avait du sens. Mais voilà qu'on apprend que la prochaine version d'Outlook Express (renommée pour l'occasion en Windows Live Mail Desktop) va aussi intégrer de la pub contextuelle. Comme est-ce possible, puisque les message ne devraient pas transiter par chez Microsoft ? Facile : on va renvoyer l'essentiel du contenu de vos messages à Microsoft pour ce faire. Mais rassurez-vous, braves gens, un expert payé par Microsoft vous assure qu'il n'y a aucun danger pour votre vie privée. Nous voilà totalement rassuré ;-). Personnellement, je vois cela comme une annonce en faveur de Thunderbird, un logiciel Libre, gratuit, sans pub et sans mouchards...
Le rapport d'audit de l'expert
"Live Mail Desktop", le remplaçant d’Outlook Express fouillera vos recherches sur internet et dans le contenu de vos correspondances pour vous inonder de « liens sponsorisés ».
samedi, 25 février 2006
Par Stephane Sales le samedi, 25 février 2006,
Dans un communiqué, Free "regrette l'instrumentalisation des tribunaux" par les associations de consommateurs, idem chez Wanadoo qui souligne par ailleurs ses efforts de concertation avec ces mêmes associations. Un point de vue que relativise Sandra Woëling,juriste à l'UFC-Que Choisir , "cela fait des mois, voire des années, que nous négocions avec ces opérateurs, la seule chose qui les a fait bouger, c'est la peur du juge".
Wanadoo et Free : des clauses abusives à haut débit - Le Monde.fr
dimanche, 19 février 2006
Par Stephane Sales le dimanche, 19 février 2006,
Inauguration de la catégorie FUD : Fear Uncertainty and Doubt
* Installer le doute, * en s'appuyant sur la peur * au moyen d'informations non vérifiables (incertitude).
Le non sens du titre provient bien de l'original et n'est pas de moi : Linux intéresse devient une cible de choix pour les créateurs de virus
samedi, 18 février 2006
Par Stephane Sales le samedi, 18 février 2006,
D'après l'annonce, ce départ est volontaire et n'est pas motivé par l'entreprise en elle-même. La raison est qu'il ne pouvait pas travailler au mieux de ses compétences techniques, ce qui le frustrait. Il est depuis embauché chez ABC Coding Solutions dans sa ville natale d'Albuquerque.
mercredi, 21 décembre 2005
Par Stephane Sales le mercredi, 21 décembre 2005,
L'évenement n'est pas du tout récent mais il peut servir pour plus tard, donc vu que je l'ai sous la main ... Si un jour j'ai le courage et le temps, j'écrirais un billet là dessus car de source sur, le déroulement de la migration a été très loin de la grande réussite dégurgité par cet article propa^Wpublicitaire.
LDLC tire un trait sur l'open source
UPDATE :
L’agence Reuters a communiqué aujourd’hui les résultats de LDLC.com, pour ses activités du second semestre de cette année. La boutique en ligne a annoncé une perte nette de 2 millions d’Euros
jeudi, 17 novembre 2005
Par Stephane Sales le jeudi, 17 novembre 2005,
Pour une fois que j'ai l'occasion de dire du bien de Microsoft, je ne m'en priverai pas. Souvenez vous, il y a de celà environ 15 jours on apprenait que SONY BMG installait automatiquement un rootkit sur les ordinateurs équipés de Windows lors de l'insertion d'un CD de la dite firme.
jeudi, 10 novembre 2005
Par Stephane Sales le jeudi, 10 novembre 2005,
Y a des nouvelles comme celles-ci qui font plaisir.