Larry Dignan reports on a coming revolution in software support and maintenance contracts, prompted by Dennis Howlett’s excellent analysis of why the reliance of enterprise software vendors on maintenance revenue is unsustainable.
Noting the negative response to recent price rises from Oracle and SAP, Dennis maintains that increasing maintenance costs is unsustainable as it reduces […]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Commercial licensing is a double-edged sword
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Essential Geek-Speak Session Rescheduled
To avoid overlapping with Larry’s keynote on Wednesday afternoon, as promised, I have rescheduled my Unconference session, “Are you insulting me? Essential geek-speak, FTW!” to Tuesday morning at 10 AM in Moscone West, 3rd floor, Overlook C.
If you’re interested, check out the slides on SlideShare.
If you make it, stop by and say hello.
Savio Rodrigues: “Are vendors afraid of open source?”
Savio posted a blog entry a little while ago that I missed until now (yes, I’m way behind on my RSS feeds). Anyway, after reading my blog post here on Microsoft’s annual report statements regarding risk from open source, Savio went and looked up what other software vendors state in their annual reports regarding potential […]
Purpose of SoftXMLDB library.
SoftXMLDB library.
Personally I assume that this module is more like a toy for baby then something that any web developer is going to use in real world application.
But this could be useful in situation when there are no software tools around but you need badly to make a query to some remote database […]
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Over the last few weeks, I’ve done a lot of blogging on my new provider, Slicehost, and the steps I’m taking to move away from Windows Server hosting to the Linux platform, at least for my personal sites and client development. I still have to use some Microsoft technologies at my day job, but […]
workbench-5.1.1-alpha on Fedora 9
So, you want to compile Workbench for Linux, on Fedora 9. You need to install the following packages:
autoconf automake libtool libzip-devel libxml2-devel libsigc++20-devel libglade2-devel gtkmm24-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mysql-libs mysql mysql-devel uuid-devel lua-devel glitz-devel glitz-glx-devel pixman-devel pcre-devel libgnome-devel gtk+-devel pango-devel cairo
I feel I’m being too liberal with dependencies, but I’m not about to strip it, I just […]
Recover plesk access
Here’s a scenario: you’re locked out of plesk admin, you forgot the password and can’t recover cause your email address is not set in the contact details.
Still have ssh access as root (ssh keys or can still remember password for root ) ? Most of the time I use dsa keys for ssh […]
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Another article on Telecommuting. The Ugly, The Bad and The Good
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Computer World has an article about Telecommuting . So, I thought I’d chip in my inflated $0.02. Telecommuting, doesn’t mean working from home. This is one of the biggest myths, and truths people will realize over time. What makes me such an expert? I’ve been telecommuting for the past 3 […]