Monday July 03, 2006 links for 2006-07-04
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"June was a month of records and celebration for the OpenSolaris community" -- Jim Grisanzio
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Delegate report from OSBC London. He's right about the event - it was a very curious thing, sponsored by Microsoft, with an ASP web site, and with a scary mix of FUD and fact on the agenda. And I wasn't the FUD :-)
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"My issue is not so much at a product level; it's at a company level. How do you trust a company that left everyone out in the cold for five years?" -- Blake Ross comments on the influence economy that's replacing the control economy.
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Very interesting SoC project to give GNU/Linux users ZFS.
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Fascinating report from Asia highlights the impact of OpenSolaris on the market there.
Posted by webmink
( Jul 03 2006, 06:18:18 PM PDT )
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The Gate In and The Gate Out
Freedom To Leave seems to have struck a chord with a number of folks, and having written on the subject I now notice some others exploring related concepts. Richard Cowin speaks of Disposable Software, calling for the recognition of the fact that all software has an end-of-life and suggesting designing as if that were true would be smart.
Indeed, I have wondered in the past why we allow software procurement to proceed without a clear eye to the future. "TCO" should include the concept of cost-of-exit or cost-of-migration-away. Once Idea I've suggested before is to include in the cost estimate the cost of migrating data and users from the solution you've chosen to the second-best alternative you have evaluated.
Richard is reacting to a posting by Jason at 37Signals (makers of BackPack, which I mentioned in Freedom to Leave) talking about growing out of software - although not talking about designing software so that when you grow out of it you have lost all your data. Fortunately BackPack does have "out" pipes as well as "in" pipes, which was why I mentioned it in my original post. As the software market moves more and more to monetisation at the point of value, freedom to leave will become an increasingly important part of willigness to enter.
Posted by webmink
( Jul 03 2006, 10:20:47 AM PDT )
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