Juan J. Martínez used to talk here about Open Source and Other Things.
This is a blog in archive mode, you can read new posts at en_GB@blog
May 6, 2011
"OpenShift, is a portfolio of free, portable cloud services for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. Currently there are three application deployment services offered as part of OpenShift; Express, Flex, & Power."
So Red Hat wants to be a PaaS provider with OpenShift. That’s interesting, but the fact they support PHP, Python, Ruby and Java it’s surprising! I mean, I would have expected Java (Red Hat owns Jboss), but not PHP, Python and Ruby.
The only thing that is slightly confusing it’s the name… because it’s OpenShift, but it doesn’t look like open source. That’s something bad coming from Red Hat, because they know what is OPEN and what is abusing the open buzzword. In which way is OpenShift more open than, let’s say, Cloud Foundry?
David Neary released a preview of his report about Gnome’s contributors: GNOME Census.
It’s a very interesting document that states, for examaple, that more than 70% of the contributions come from people beind paid to work on Gnome. Check it, it’s worth reading.
I don’t like flames, because it’s very hard to get something interesting from that kind of improductive Internet discussion; but this time is different and I guess it’s worth reading. I don’t know if it’s because there are some good level participants, but I must confess I’ve learned a couple of things and it made me think about other couple or so.
The number of comments it’s growing fast, so I recommend you to wait until it’s settled. It will be great if Greg writes another post with the conclusions, wouldn’t it?
Late update: there’s a reply from Mark Shuttleworth (owner of Canonical): Tribalism is the enemy within. I must confess I’m disappointed by this post, I was expecting a different kind of reply from Shuttleworth. In fact, I think his comments in the different threads about this story are way better.
Deltacloud it’s an abstraction layer that provides an uniform API to deal with different cloud providers, supporting EC2, GoGrind, OpenNebula, RackSpace, RimuHosting, etc; and obviously RHEV-M, because Deltacloud was initiated by Red Hat as open source project.
According to Lutterkort, a lot of people liked the idea of a OSS cloud API, but they weren’t happy with it being a Red Hat project. To fix that, Deltacloud it’s now an ASF Incubator project, and in the future most likely will become a full Apache Software Foundation project.
With all the recent open core debate, it’s very interesting this move from Red Hat: you don’t like us to have control over a 100% open source project, so we’re donating it to ASF. Brilliant.
"This site is one of the ways in which Red Hat gives something back to the open source community. Our desire is to create a connection point for conversations about the broader impact that open source can have—and is having—even beyond the software world."
Good news, although I’d have liked it better without Red Hat being so visible in this initiative. I mean, there are other actors in the open source market, some of them competitors of Red Hat, and it would be a good idea they play an active role in the conversation too. Sometimes it’s important that the host it’s neutral, you know.
I’m sure opensource.com it’s a good idea, and I wish them a great success.
"[…] among the two primary corporate-controlled-but-dabbling-in-community-orientation distributions (aka Fedora and Ubuntu), Fedora is clearly much more software-freedom-friendly."
Bradley explains his reasons to leave Ubuntu, see: Ubuntu One server side software (non-free, and it’s future strong integration in Ubuntu Desktop), Canonical’s copyright assignment policies, ‘restricted’ is too close to ‘main’, and finally that all those problems come from a community oriented distribution based on a for-profit company.
I’m not sure if I agree with a for-profit, corporate-controlled distribution can never remain community-oriented. What do you think? Is Fedora different with Red Hat?
"Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."
I registered some time ago, and today I can’t enter the event: where’s the login page?
I can’t even find a link to login in the event page, just the registration page and some general information, and the technical support e-mail provided seems redirected to /dev/null (well, I can’t be sure of this, please allow me the poetical license).
I’m busy and probably I can’t attend all the event, but man… at least I would have liked to try to.
Update: the link appears only when the event goes live (sic).
Final update: very interesting (virtual) event. Congratulations Red Hat.
I’ve put in the table just the first 10 certifications, and I want to highlight the third one: RHCE.
Besides the fact that it’s one of the less frequent certifications in the survey, I must say that the salaries in Spain are far lower than in USA (according this table).
I must confess I don’t feel with superpowers after being certified, and neither my career has been boosted (even I have more knowledge and experience after the certification).
Anyway, it’s very nice to see that an open source based certification it’s very appreciated, at least in USA (should I look for a new job out of Spain? heh).
