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Developer Interest in Mobile Platforms

(Credit: Markmail and O'Reilly Research)

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore–
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over–
like a syrupy





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Source:The Open Road

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Jim, where are you when we need you?

“Jim,” of course, is Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat. The need? To get more enterprises contributing back to open source. Forrester has found that–Surprise! Surprise!–most enterprises consume open source but don’t contribute back to it.

This isn’t surprising, nor are the reasons and means of adoption:

“…[O]pen source adoption initially focused on the operating system and Web server tiers of the application platform stack, but early success widened the focus to include development tools, infrastructure components such as application servers and databases, and higher-level components such as portal servers and content management systems.”

Lower cost was the main driver for open source deployments with delegates questioned by Forrester highlighting that the cost-based business case was easier to show for lower-level commodity middleware components.

Cost is a primary driver of open-source adoption, and for good reason. For example, Activision recently noted in a Webinar that it had saved “tens of millions of dollars” by going with Alfresco for its Web content management needs, while simultaneously driving innovation and flexibility.

That’s great. But there’s still the ominous note in the article above that support alone doth not a billion-dollar software company make. What happens in subsequent years when the cost savings have been realized but the enterprise is self-sufficient?

… Source:The Open Road

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Filed under: Enterprise, Software, World wide web Tools, Developer

To web developers, scripting is the glue that connects web pages and back-end systems. For example, PHP is a very popular scripting environment that has been used to write web apps like WordPress and phpBB. For those of you who use PHP, you know that it is a dynamic, weakly-typed hypertext preprocessor. In other words, it’s a scripting language that is embedded in the HTML code that makes up a web page.

Inspiring Applications, Inc. hopes to catch the imagination of web developers with Yuma, their new strongly-typed, object-oriented scripting tool that is being released this day. Rather than the confusing syntax of PHP, Yuma uses a easy REALBasic-like syntax. It is natively compiled to machine code on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows for high speed.

Yuma Development Server for Mac OS X is available as a free download, complete with example code, a full developer reference, language definition files for BBEdit, TextMate and Text Wrangler, and more. When you’re ready to deploy your Yuma web app, you can purchase and install Yuma Enterprise Server ($149). It’s a command-line app and may be set up as a daemon.

To run either Yuma Development or Enterprise Server on Mac OS X, you need to be running OS X 10.3 or later on a G4, G5, or Intel-based Mac with at least 1 GB of RAM.

Thanks to Brad for the tip.

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There’s a debate raging over on Slashdot about whether an open-source, Linux desktop should be “pure” or whether it should allow proprietary drivers, applications, etc. I know I’ve helped to foment discussions like this before, but to me the answer to this question is blindingly simple:

No. No, the Linux desktop need not be 100 percent free source.

It’s a laudable aspiration, but it’s also not something that is practical. It’s not a question of whether or not one could conceivably come up with a perfectly free (as in freedom) Linux desktop, but no one has done so yet, so why bother?

Besides, as one Slashdotter rightly notes,

The choice should be with the user, not with the distribution.

Because of the way Linux is architected, a user can make that choice. That’s the way it should be, but let’s not get bogged down in figuring out how many open-source applications will fit on the head of a pin.

… Source:The Open Road

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The Register’s Ashley Vance started stirring the pot with the suggestion that Fujitsu should buy Sun, given that its market capitalization is down to $7 billion. IBM’s Savio Rodrigues steered clear of suggesting that IBM would be a fit (too much overlap), but veers toward an HP acquisition….

Source:The Open Road

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