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How to Save the Internet 12/05/2005 10:59:59
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Free Code For Sale: The New Business of Open Source 05/04/2006 16:23:33
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Ticked Off at Tick the Box Mentality 04/02/2008 13:01:15
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Your World. . . Hacked 02/10/2007 10:51:23
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Java creator, IT industry heavyweight and CTO of Sun Microsystem's developer products group James Gosling has launched a blistering attack on the open source developer community saying companies that give away software lack financial viability.
In Sydney at the start of a national lecture tour, including an address to Directors of Information Technology at the Council of Australian Universities, Gosling described the economic sustainability of open source as "in a pickle".
"There are all these open source groups that have to figure out what their economic model is," Gosling told Computerworld.
"Everyone that works on these open source projects [must] pay rent and buy lunch...so where does that money come from?
Open source vendors also came under fire, with Gosling sideswiping MySQL, JBoss, and Red Hat: "They say that they are running their businesses based on services.
"These businesses are more hype than reality. If they don't have a [longer term] economic model...they are going to have a really hard time."
Gosling took aim at MySQL, describing its open source database as "still basically commercial, but you can use it for free".
"I actually find it amazing that people consider MySQL to be an open source project given that there is no one allowed to do check-ins. When you look at the licence for MySQL you really do need to feed them money in order to be clean with their licence."
When asked about Sun's stance on open sourcing Java, Gosling described the whole debate as "very weird".
"We have been distributing the source to Java freely since the very first day [and] you can go to our Web site and download the sources, no problem," he said. "In that sense, Java has been open source for a decade."
Gosling said people in the open source world quibble about one clause in the Java licence that disqualifies it from being open source, but is important for maintaining compatibility.
"So we have this licence that says you can only distribute this commercially and call it Java if you have passed the set of tests," he said.
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Beyond Virtualisation - The Roadmap to 2012
CIO Breakfast Briefing
8:30am - 10:30am
Brisbane | 22 July | Sofitel Brisbane
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Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future. - +
Data Management Edition #9: Data centre makeover 24/04/2008 07:43:06
This week CW Live looks at the death of the old style data centre which is undergoing its first makeover in more than 30 years.
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Quality in software development projects doesn’t happen on its own. Quality happens only when careful planning is done. Read on to make your quality management policies best practice models, and to discover how to deliver successful projects on time, every time.
