» Enlightenment on Technology Abuse
It's dawned on me today's morning: If a technology exists, it will be abused. The consequence is the following: the simpler technology, the smaller abuse.
July 27, 2004
July 26, 2004
» WebLogic newsgroups have been down for two weeks already
I'm left without my morning portion of answering questions in weblogic newsgroups. I've began feeling cravings. Anyone, any ideas what's going on?
May 29, 2004
» BEA eWorld
I attended BEA eWorld on May 26, 2004, and here is the bottom line.
1) I'd like to thank BEA for giving me a conference pass.
2) Now there are many companies offering mature, high quality management and monitoring solutions for WebLogic, which a noticeable change compared to eWorld'2003.
3) BEA has selected SOA as a buzzword for this year conference. Personally I'd prefer to see more down-to-earth conference positioning. To be fair, SOA still is a step forward compared to "Convergence" of the last year :-)
4) A bright spot in all the day was meeting Cameron and guys from his team. Cameron was nice, as usually. And he didn't have a Workshop plugin.
5) I also attended dev2dev party in the evening. It was very pleasant to meet my colleagues from BEA who I worked with before.
February 20, 2004
» JBoss rises $10M in first round
As per a post in the javalobby forums, JBoss Raises $10 Million in VC Funding.
Here is a working business model for a software company that seems to gain more and more attraction:
1. Develop a production grade, free, open source, product.
2. Build a community and a customer base around it.
3. Make the customers pay.
JBoss seems to get to the stage 3.
Disclaimer: I'm saying this is a working model. I'm not saying it's bad model.
Yet, I'd like to see that open source projects following this path place fine prints on project def pages saying something like "Be prepared to pay when you need a bug fix or a new version next time". In this case customers won't be facing unplanned or unexpected expences, like it happened to RedHat customers.
