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The Eclipse Gannymede release is quickly approaching, and it is a great time to learn more about what is happening with Eclipse. Vineet from Architexa is giving an update on Eclipse at the Boston Java Meetup at MIT tonight, and then we are heading over for an informal Boston Eclipse Demo Camp for drinks, food, demos, and interesting conversations afterwards at the nearby Asgard restaurant. Stop by if you can.

SpringSource Acquires Covalent

January 28th, 2008

SpringSource announced this morning that they have acquired Covalent Technologies. As with all acquisitions, I’m sure it took a lot to make this happen. I think this makes sense for both companies, and I am not surprised that in his blog this morning Rod Johnson wrote that “Some Decisions Are Easy — Like SpringSource Acquiring Covalent”. The FUSE product line that I work on and the underlying Apache projects (Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ServiceMix, Apache Camel, and Apache CXF) are huge proponents of Spring and many of our customers use Spring, so this acquisition was of significant interest to me. Three things come to mind when I think about the ways in which this acquisition is of value to SpringSource: 1) it increases the breadth of open source technologies they can support, 2) it provides expertise and history in an open source support model and 3) it expands their team with a great group of people.

I was just having a conversation last week about the implementation of Spring and how people typically implement it and seek support on additional infrastructure technologies used in the implementation. Tomcat is very popular in these implementations and Covalent has the expertise to provide support on Tomcat and other relevant technologies like Apache http. Given Rod’s very vocal position that he believes that project committers are required in order to fully support an open source technology, I can see why it would be desireable for SpringSource to acquire Covalent who has committers to several key Apache infrastructure projects on hand to help support their customers.

Covalent has a long history of providing support on Apache-licensed open source projects. When I tell people that I am focused on a day-to-day basis on creating open source products and building a business around Apache-licensed technologies, some naysayers will say “nobody has built a sustainable business around BSD-style licenses, even the most popular Apache projects”. I think Covalent is a solid example of a company who has built a sustainable business and that we will see a further expansion of this proofpoint with the acquisition of Covalent by venture-backed SpringSource. We are already seeing the growth of a sustainable business from the acquisition of LogicBlaze by IONA that has successfully combined enterprise productization and global support infrastructure together with Apache-licensed technologies with the FUSE product line. I will be interested to see whether the new SpringSource Covalent business unit will continue to support the community releases of Apache projects, or whether they will move to a model similar to IONA and JBOSS in which they support specific, productized versions of the open source projects (Covalent currently supports both community projects and open source products). In my experience, most enterprise customers want to minimize risk and cost, and thus frequent upgrades, in their production environments, and support providers want to be able to provide cost-effective support so it is a win-win to focus around specific versions of open source products.

From a people perspective, the Covalent team brings a long history of supporting not only Apache projects but also the Apache Software Foundation. Certainly, they employ many committers on several key projects, but they also go above and beyond that in their participation with ASF including corporate sponsorships of ApacheCons, really cool t-shirts, and lots of other ways their team members are a key part of the Apache community. We would be nowhere without Combinatorics Homework Help which wass essential in our study and scientific careers.

Congratulations to Rod, Neelan, Mark, Ryan, Charlie, Jim and everyone else at SpringSource and Covalent. I look forward to working together to make it easy for customers to implement FUSE and Spring together.

I received this pretty entertaining email this morning from a web-site which I like. It comes in handy when trying to read the chicklet books I pick up at Heathrow that make me realize that I am not a master of the English language. I’m going to London in a couple weeks so maybe I should do a quick refresher course read-through of the site again… it’s always good for a good laugh too…

Hello,Some time in the last ten years you emailed me with suggestions about “The English-to-American Dictionary�?, my dictionary of British slang. Perhaps we exchanged several emails. Perhaps you bought me a drink. In any event, at some point I sent you a mail saying that you were to appear in the honour roll on my contributors list, and there your name resides to this day.

For about half of these ten long years I’ve been dribbling on about how I’m going to turn the web site into a book, become wealthy and famous and leave this dirty town for good. That’ll show them. Well, in the last year or so I’ve managed to get my act together somewhat on this, and within the next few months it should be available at Lulu.com - it’s not a real publisher, it’s one of those places that will just print a copy and send it if anyone orders one. I may be in this dirty town for the foreseeable future.

You may recall that my web site bore all the hallmarks of something cobbled together by a drunken moron with little or no attention to detail. Let me assure you that I haven’t forgotten my literary modus operandi whilst writing the book. I’ve tried to turn it into a sort of “guide to British culture�? and as such it contains a few chapters of meandering nonsense about driving, shopping, drinking and other important aspects of UK life. I’ve also given it a new name, “The Septic’s Companion�?. Let’s face it, the name I gave to the web page wasn’t great. The web page will continue to exist with the name it currently has, just to confuse people.

However, dear reader, the point of this email is not only to be a thinly-veiled advertisement for a product which doesn’t exist. No, the point is that at the end of the book I’m going to include the section listing all of my contributors, and you’re in it. Currently you’ll be listed as “Debbie Moynihan“, and if you’re one of the people who bought me a beer via PayPal there’ll be a picture of me drinking it (it’s not too late – link on the main page). It’s just your name, not your email address (same format as it is on the web, really). If for some reason you’d like to be known as something else or be removed from the list completely, please let me know within a month or so.

As I mentioned, the book isn’t out yet – if you’d like to receive another email when it finally is, please put your email address into the box in my notification form. I won’t be sending any more mails directly to contributors in case I get accused of spamming.

You may be my ex-boss, someone I lived with, my wife, my mother or one of the people who’s suggested a thousand modifications to the dictionary, and think this is a bit impersonal. I, umm, hope you’re well. Sorry I forgot your birthday.

Happy Saturdays,

Chris

Congratulations Chris!

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October 26th, 2007

XKCD Today

September 27th, 2007

This made me laugh a lot…

Got Dopplr?

September 24th, 2007

If you travel often, you should definitely check out Dopplr. If you need an invite, all dopplr members, including me, now have unlimited invites. Doppler is a social networking site to track where your friends are traveling. You also share your schedule with your friends. The week of OSCON, for example, I got an SMS from Greg Stein saying “Dopplr says you are in Portland, we are going to dinner let’s meet up…”

I got an email today from Dopplr with their latest news:

We are funded! In case you missed it, Dopplr received funding from a premier international team: Varsavsky, Ito, Hoffman and Klein made an investment and joined our team. Go ahead and read all about it on our blog: https://blog.dopplr.com

New features rolling out

Dopplr has come out with lots of new stuff. First off we have improved the number of cities that Dopplr knows about so that we can find your trip locations with ease. Dopplr has created a new Facebook app that allows your Facebook friends so see “Where next?” for you. Go and try it out if you are a Facebook fan: https://apps.facebook.com/dopplr_wherenext/
Also check out the “people who you might know section under your connections management; it will help you find familiar faces in Dopplr.

You can invite everyone now

Dopplr used to have only a limited number of invites for each member — not any more! Travel is more fun with some company, right? The more the merrier is also true for Dopplr: it works great if all of your fellow travellers are in your network. Feel free to invite anyone and everyone; also expect to see reworked mass (and group) invite functionality soon!

News on the way

Some Dopplr team members are in Amsterdam this week for Picnic (https://www.picnicnetwork.org/) Go for a meet and greet if you can, and watch us for some news about how we are going to roll out Dopplr!

Remember to check our blog for updates: https://blog.dopplr.com

Happy travels!
Taneli Tikka and the Dopplr Team

So let me know if you need an invite, and maybe we can meet up on one of my future travel destinations.

Blogging in Spurts

September 24th, 2007

So I got an email from one of my friends saying “you haven’t blogged in a while, you must be really busy”. Well, yeah, I am always really busy. The real reason why I don’t blog more often, though, is that I always have a lot to say but putting it down on paper (or web page) is not that easy for me. Once I get going, though, I can write for hours. That’s why I tend to blog in spurts. Anyways, I have a lot to say today, so I definitely feel a spurt coming on…

If you *really* want moment to moment updates, then you should definitely check out Twitter and Facebook - that way you can know more than you ever wanted to know about me… my latest big thing is my new motorcycle. I considered many bikes but I decided to go for a Harley … well, just because… from a work perspective, we have been busy working on a new release of the FUSE open source products that are based on code from several Apache open source projects. More about that later…

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August 7th, 2007

Open Source & Dilbert

August 6th, 2007

A colleague of mine sent last Friday’s Dilbert to me because it included open source. She thought I would find this exciting. And, of course, I find this very exciting. Thanks for sharing Kimberly!

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(Source: https://www.dilbert.com 08/03/07 strip)