Out of Sync: Maddy's Blog

The results of the  OpenSolaris  community awards are out:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/awards/awards_land/Entries/

 Marcelo Leal of OHAC community got 3 awards including his HA NFS/ZFS agent without shared storage.

Also 4 CAs from India won awards in various categories.  This augurs very well for Sun's future in India and the efforts of the University Program team should be applauded. They do a fantastic job in reaching to tomorrow's IT folks.  I hope the lessons are learned and implemented in other geographies as well.

Congratulations Winners! You deserved it.

If you are getting the feeling that you are being held hostage to price hikes and vendor lock-in, then it is time you tried our new JCAPS offer. With open source components comes the option to prevent vendor lock in.  You even get a WebLogic adapter that will help you have a smooth migration. 

Now that is something to think about. 

Once the OSes became open source, it is quite natural that other applications sitting on top of it will follow suit. And what better place to start than one of the most expensive of them all - Databases!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/facebook_cassandra_microsoft/

Since the pioneers among the web 2.0 companies realized that those oh-so-prohibitively-expensive  proprietary DBs don't scale up nor can they waste precious $s on licenses, they have/are building their own database products. It is obvious that releasing them as products serves a much larger purpose and are in the race to open their code for others to adapt!

The perfect way to start the race would be a (for Tamil movie buffs) a P.S. Veerappa style "Sabash! Sariyana potti!".

Peter Eisentraut, a core contributor to PostgreSQL is joining Sun!  To quote from his blog post:

"Sun has been a valuable contributor to the PostgreSQL project for a number of years now, and I am looking forward to joining them in this effort. I am glad that I will be able to continue my personal role in the PostgreSQL project with the support of the great resources that Sun provides."

Beat that for choice - even with our acquisition of MySQL, you still have a choice, as always!

http://blogs.sun.com/dillon/entry/firestar#comments

There is more to our open source commitment than just freeing code - defending the community as well!