Kevin Schmidt's Blog

Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) - MySQL isn't that hard to install and configure already, but this makes it even easier providing easy provisioning, management, and backup. More details here.
SAP Joins Apache Communities, Extending Commitment to Open Source Technologies - It is good to see increased validation of open-source, but it is easy to commit to open-source projects that are already "proven and broadly used". How about some real innovation and contribution?
Defense Department issues new open-source guidance - What was a encouraging statement to use open-source before now gets stronger.