Netbeans, GlassFish, OpenSolaris are dead!
As you know IBM is apparently about to buy SUN Microsystems. It is interesting to see that a IBM covers almost entirely the portfolio of SUN.
Why are they buying the company?
Is it because SUN is cheap?
Is it because IBM wants to improve OpenOffice and make it a better competitor of Microsoft Office?
Is it because IBM want to stop to fund Eclipse and use NetBeans instead (or to kill the competition)?
Is it because IBM wants to buy their customers?
One important aspect is the following: if IBM really buys SUN Microsystems we can easily foresee the end of the competition in the open source world for at least those tools:
- NetBeans vs. Eclipse
- GlassFish vs. WebSphere
- MySQL vs. DB2
- Solaris vs. AIX
- etc.
It is clear that this buy happen
- IBM will drastically increase the monopolistic position in many IT areas
- The customers of SUN Microsystems will have to migrate to the IBM tools within the next 5 years
- The open source world will loose its competitiveness against closed source applications
I just hope that the European Commission and Mrs Neelie Kroes will avoid such buy for the sake of the competition!
Microsoft, the biggest distributor of Open Source Software ever?
First, Microsoft and Novell agreement gave to Microsoft the opportunity to be one of the biggest seller of Linux Operating System
A few months ago, Microsoft released the Microsoft Web Application Installer[0] that allowed limited amount of Windows users[1] to easily install widely used Open Source software. But strangely, the Readme file [2] contradicts the list[1] supported Operating Systems by saying: “…Windows Vista RTM is not supported due to the lack of FastCGI support for the version of IIS that ships with it…”.
I haven’t found a given explanation justifying the first selection: DotNetNuke, Drupal, Gallery, Graffiti CMS, osCommerce, phpBB, WordPress.
It seems that the first Microsoft choice doesn’t focus on developers but on users of open source software: The tools proposed are not exclusively manageable by high skilled administrators like OBM,
What are the reasons why Microsoft releases such installer? I found several good reasons:
- To increase the amount of PHP developers on Windows OS
- To increase the amount of ASP.NET developers by Open Source developers
- To increase the usage of Internet Information Services (IIS) by Open Source developers
But today, I used the same link to see what happened to this initiative and I can only say that it has been abandoned!
Microsoft is now providing a kind of LAMP stack of Microsoft Free solutions: .NET Framework, IIS and Extensions, SQL Server and Visual Web Developer.
That is a great idea for the Microsoft .NET developers but will once again prove that Microsoft has difficulties to find a breach into the open source community cohesion against them.
[0] http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebApplicationInstaller.aspx
[1] Supported Operating Systems are: Windows Vista RTM, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008
[2] http://forums.iis.net/t/1152406.aspx
[4] http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/
Salaires et Avantages fiscaux en Belgique
Voici un “mind map” décrivant la notion du salaire en Belgique. vous trouverez toutes les informations sur ce que vous pouvez espérer de votre employeur comme faisant partie de votre salaire: Le paiement de la location de votre logement, une participation dans l’achat de votre PC privé, un prêt à taux d’intérêt réduit…
EU procurement rules possibly exclude Microsoft, Visa, Danone, Interbrew, BASF, Dresdner Bank AG, Siemens AG and others?
Plenty of bidders to public procurement have been guilty of serious misconduct and have been convicted to pay very high fines. Banks, telecommunications providers, retail electronic payments network, Oil and gas, Electricity gears, software vendors are the types of companies that should be excluded of procurement procedures if we follow strictly the European directive related to Financial rules to be addressed during a procurement process.
I document, based on this article “EU: Green MEP: ‘EU procurement rules possibly exclude Microsoft’” [2], the rules that each EU Member State as well as the European Commission and the European Agencies must follow while procuring.
I end my post with open questions to those public actors as the execution of such constraints could change drastically our daily life.
Who wants to buy Unisys?
I’m following the stock market every day for some years now. It is interesting to see that after the Internet bubble, Unisys could not gain any more visibility on the market which should imply an increase of the stocks price.
After watching/reading the news regarding their latest quarter I wanted to know the “estimated” real value of the stocks. I used my Internet banking to do so.
