WARNING THE LINKED TO ARTICLE IS A DIFFICULT READ!!! The concepts are good but there is almost no conclusion and a really hard path to follow. The reason we are pointing to it is to try and help form a conclusion. The bulk of the article talks about what the author sees as a sift from open source to open API’s. Will companies sift away from Open Source? The problem with the question is that it’s not a zero sum gain. Take Google for instance, they offer both Open Source software they develope and Open API’s for developers to use. As does both Amazon and E-Bay. There are serious problems when you build an applicaiton or business on open API’s as opposed to Open Source. With Open Source the software is yours to use and while you may be never get another update to the code you at least have the code and could hire a developer to fix/update to meet your needs. With an Open API if the company shuts off the API you are out of luck. The most recent example of this is the changes over at Twitter. Twitter wanted to make money and changed how things worked to make it happen. Unfortunately if you wrote an app that relied on something they removed from the API you are out of luck and get to re-write your app. So what do we want to make you aware of? Remember when you write your application that you need to control where your data is and comes from. If you don’t have data you really probably don’t have an application. So if all of your data comes from an Open API what will you do if that API goes away? What if the companies who’s API your using goes under or starts competing with you.
Google Motorola Merger has been approved by the EU…
Google and Motorola finally have approval from EU Regulators to go ahead with their merger. This is good news on teh patent wars front for both Google and Android. We also want to see them do some more stuff with GoogleTV. It’s good news but they still have to get approval for a half dozen or so other countries.
Ever want to know a secert….
How about one about a secert corporate data center. How about how they designed the Google datacenters? Well check out this article and the book it is promoting called “The DataCenter as a Computer” which sarts to answer the questions around how and why Google did what it did with those resources. All in all the article over at wired online magazine is pretty cool.
Google buys more patents to protect Android….
Google bought @1023 patents from IBM. The patent wars don’t seem to be ending anytime soon. So Google is trying to shore up it’s defenses. None of the articles we could find could tell us exactly what was in the patent grab. Neither was anyone sure what was paid for them. What we do know is that Patents seem to be going for about $400,000/patent on average. So it goes without saying that they spent a lot.
Google’s Chris D talks about Android, Chrome, Linux and More…
The folks over at derstandard.at posted an interview with Chris D, Open Source Manager, and got him talking about All things Open Source and Google. It’s a really cool interview and Chris’s comments are easy to follow and still informative. He does a great job explaining how and what Google is using Open Source for and reminds us all that Google has opened up over 1300 packages to the world in the last 5 years. Go check it out and let us know what you think.
Episode 45 – Cloudy with a chance of conectivity…
Running Time: 49:30
1) Introduction
2) News
Purple Reign – IBM and Red Hat hook up to take on VMWare
Google VP says cloud is at the same point E-Mail was in the late 1980’s
3) Conclusion
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Episode 38 – Predictions for 2011….
Running Time: 38:28
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1) Introduction
2) What we predicted for 2010
- An App Store for Linux like there is one for the IPhone and Android Phones – This came true with the Ubuntu One App store. Google released the first browser/Chrome OS App Store and Apple announced a Mac App Store to premier in 2011.
- Microsoft will be try to make a serious run at VMWare for the Vitalization Market on XSeries, Red Hat will come from no where and put Microsoft into 3rd place behind Xen. – Failed on this but they did acquire a lot of Novell Patents
- Someone will figure out what to do with Google Wave in an enterprise or just in general. Wave Federation will take off. – Wave got killed by Google but it’s been reborn as an apache project and several companies, including Novell, are doing wave in a box.
- Chrome OS and Android will merge. – Google Still swears it ain’t gonna happen.
- This will not be the year of the Linux Desktop. Linux will continue to gain share in the X86 Server market. Linux will be the preferred Netbook OS paired with something like Chrome OS. – That was true but Netbooks seem to be getting replaced by Tablets. We finally have the first Chrome OS “CloudBook”. CES is coming so how many new tablets are we going to see. Playstation Phone will run on Android.
- Linux will not see a major virus in 2010. Really we don’t think there will be a major issue with Viruses in general in 2010. – True Same goes for 2011.
3) What we think is going to happen in 2011
- Phones will become a big target for virus’ in 2011.
- Joe says …HTML 5 will rock the world..OK he really said it’s going to take off.
- Android will continue to dominate…New tablets will hit the market next year that may upset.
- Google will negotiate contracts and start streaming day old episodes
- Wayland will successfully replace Xorg for most major free distributions and become an option for the paid distributions.
- And More you will have to listen to hear….
4) Conclusion
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Episode 37 – Top things that happened in 2010
1) Introduction
2) This is a running list of things to consider for the top news of 2010
Big Purchases in 2010:
Novell get’s purchased – the patents that went to Microsoft
Oracle buying Sun
Palm get’s bought by HP
Changes in the world of Open Source:
Google World:
Android shoots for world domination – Or at least Mobile Platform domination
Google TV announced and delivered
Chrome OS Pilot Program announced Beta’s of Chrome OS on VM’s
Ubuntu abandons Xorg and Gnome for Wayland and Unity
Mandrivia struggling/passing away…
Tablet Market exploded with the introduction of IPad and Galaxy Tablet
3) Conclusion
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Episode 30 – And now here is Bill with the news…
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Running Time: 42:05
1) Introduction
Bill Novak is back in studio with us to talk about 3par and other news with us on this episode.
2) News
3par deal
Open Solaris Vs. Oracle
Googles Dirty Little Secert
and more….
3) Conclusion
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A special thanks to Bill for joining in our conversation this week.
Does Google have a dirty little secert?
A great question with a surprising answer. As you can hear on Episode 30 of the podcast Joe and I agree that the article is a bite of overkill. Google is doing what all open source developers, produce a free and customizable operating system designed to run on phones and tablets. With the code being open source there isn’t anything they can do to stop the customizations like the Sense UI and Moto Blur. In the end the article starts to afree with us. Read the full artice for all the jucie detailes.
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