mardi janvier 29, 2008 
mardi janvier 29, 2008
Les développeurs Open Source ne tombent pas du ciel (ou comment gagner le million) 
Dans le bruit ambient de la blogosphère, il est facile de passer à coter de l'annonce de Sun de distribuer 1 million de dollars aux contributeurs externes pour les projets OpenSolaris, NetBeans, OpenJDK, OpenSPARC, OpenOffice et GlassFish.
C'est désormais les détails de ce programme qui sont disponibles. Chaque communauté citée ci-dessus poursuit des objectifs légèrement différents et propose donc ses propres règles. En ce qui concerne GlassFish dont je me suis occupé depuis quelques semaines, le nom officiel est GlassFish Awards Program et ses règles officielles sont ici (travail intéressant avec les "lawyers" au passage).
Le but n'est pas de tout paraphraser ici, mais sachez que:
- GlassFish, comme les autres communautés, dispose de $175k
- un bug bien rempli peut rapporter plusieurs centaines de $ (5 rapports de bug récompensés max)
- les contributions ne sont pas nécessairement du code: de la documentation, un article technique, la tenue d'un évenement, la création et l'animation d'un portail, sont tous de bons candidats
- les contributions de code ne sont pas nécessairement des enrichissements du seul produit GlassFish. L'amélioration du plugin Eclipse ou l'écriture de plugins pour le moteur de build continu Hudson sont de bons exemples.
- cette initiative concerne GlassFish et tous ses sous-projets (Metro, jMaki, Grizzly, etc, ...)
- de nombreux pays sont éligibles (pas autant qu'on aurait souhaité) au rang desquel bien entendu la France, la Belgique la Suisse, mais pas Quebec (il parait que c'est à cause d'une vielle loi française! ;)
N'hésitez pas à poser des questions. La FAQ est pour le moins naissante.
Enfin, le mail pour les soumissions (dès maintenant et avant le 30 juin):
gap-submissions @ glassfish.dev.java.net.
Seule contrainte, écrire en anglais à cette adresse.
lundi janvier 21, 2008 Grenoble Software Event Report
I'm back from our Grenoble Sun & Partner Software Event. The attendance was fairly high with 190 (initial goal was 100) from 20 European countries. Attendees seemed to enjoy the presentations, the interactions with the speakers and the overal networking (of course, having this event in the heart of the French Alps was enjoyed by many). Kudos to Dominique for driving the effort for the overall event!
A lot of people (mainly partners) realized how much progress GlassFish has made and how competitive it's become wrt commercial products (in addition to Open Source competitors). My presentation slides are available here.
During the GlassFish breakout session we had some interesting discussion about whether Tomcat was competition to GlassFish or not (I think it is). One partner even questioned the future of Tomcat given what he considers as its lack of corporate backing. Others had more advanced questions related to their use of GlassFish in production (connection pools' ability to cope with failing database, ability to update default web apps deployed at the root web context) as well as some naming suggestions ;)
Of course, we also discussed the BEA acquisition by Oracle as well as the MySQL announcement. The overall impression was that both were very good news for Sun. Weblogic is a great product but the acquisition has Gartner's Pezzini suggesting postponing investment in BEA (FR_fr) for the moment. MySQL is seen as an ideal complement to GlassFish although the price paid, and previous investments to PostgreSQL or JavaDB were expressed as concerns. Jonathan's latest "Vortex" and Josh Berkus' blogs explain how this is only a validation of the Open Source Database previous investments. I don't believe databases can be compared to application servers anyhow and mySQL/JavaDB/postgreSQL sounds like a perfect combinaison to cover the full spectrum. Finally, while I like the "Oracle is buying the past while Sun is investing in the future", that too is over simplified.
There was also GlassFish-related content from Roman, Jason, and others (identity).
Paul Sandoz being local he obviously presented on REST/JAX-RS/Jersey and looking at the surveys, he was *very* successful in getting interest from the majority of participants. His presentation was a nice combination of REST concepts, JAX-WS introduction and Jersey demos.
I had a very nice diner with Paul and Roman Strobl with local Fondue. Roman failed to join OpenDS's Ludovic Poitou and myself on the next day for skying but his fellow Czech citizen Kamil (a GlassFish and NetBeans happy camper) didn't. Best snow and weather in a long time!
Overal, a great experience for what really seemed to be a Sun & Friends Software User Group event.
(event photos courtesy of Ludo)
mardi décembre 18, 2007 Software in Grenoble in January
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Grenoble is in the Alps (Ski anyone?) and a 3-hour fast train ride away from Paris. This is a FREE event to get up to speed on many different software products and open source technologies from Sun. |
Registration is happening now by sending a mail to gec-event@sun.com. You do not have to attend all 4 days. Days 1 & 2 are focused on Sun Secure Global Desktop, Sun Ray and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, while days 3 & 4 are a bit broader in scope - OpenSolaris, Glassfish, NetBeans, OpenDS, OpenESB , xVM, OpenJDK, OpenDMK, Identity Management, Federation Management, Java CAPS ...
Everything else about the event:
http://fr.sun.com/sunnews/events/2007/nov/grenoble/index.jsp
jeudi novembre 29, 2007 docs.sun.com now has a blog on blogs.sun.com. Not a support website, but certainly a place for comments and suggestions to make it a better service (it's come a loooong way already).
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mardi novembre 20, 2007
BarCamp in Paris, Saturday December 8th all day (starting @ 9am) at the Sun office. Be there or be square!
vendredi avril 27, 2007 Blogs.Sun.Com (BSC) is three years old today. Thanks P@ for showing me the ropes and bugging until I started Bistro!. Tim Bray has also been the inspiration and I certainly recommend his Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career for those who've never read it.
I'm only a month and a half behind the BSC launch and this has been and still is a great adventure with 512 entries (less than 1% of the total BSC blogs) and 653 comments (just a little over 1%). This is not counting my recent contributions to TheAquarium and Stories blogs.
Thanks for all the fish!
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mercredi avril 25, 2007
(via Laurent). Based on their requirements, the Mozilla.org team is moving to Hg (Mercurial).
OpenSolaris, OpenJDK and soon GlassFish are moving to Hg as well as you probably already know.
mercredi avril 18, 2007
Tim Bray is #26, James is #64, Simon is #58, Andy Bechtolsheim is #52, and Greg Papadopoulos is #39 in eWeeks's Top 100 Most Influential People in IT.
I can't imagine Jonathan not being in the top 25.
Update: yes, Jonathan is #19. A lot of CEOs and CIOs is this last top-25 list.
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mardi mars 06, 2007
Intervenants Sun Tech Days
L'agenda des TechDays à jour avec les intervenants est en ligne.
Encore quelques additions à venir sous peu...
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lundi février 12, 2007
Une différence fondamentale entre Sun et Microsoft
La volonté coté Sun comme Microsoft de fournir une meilleure inter-opérabilité entre nos technologies respectives est bien réelle. Le projet Tango/WSIT pour l'inter-opérabilité des Web Services en est un bon exemple.
Par contre, quand je lis ce genre d'article ("Nous n'avons plus de concurrence"), il m'apparait clair qu'il y a toujours une différence fondamentale entre nos deux sociétés.
Sun crois au contraire qu'en augmentant la taille du gâteau (du marché), sa part augmentera mécaniquement et que c'est une meilleure stratégie. C'est le raisonnement à la base de la stratégie de Volume et d'Open Source de Sun en général et de Java en particulier.
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