Re: [CODE4LIB] Ten years
On Apr 18, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Roy Tennant wrote: Domain Name:OSS4LIB.ORG Created On:17-Nov-1999 23:05:50 UTC That's just the domain. The site, and the list, went online in roughly February 1999, based at yale. Wayback found out about it in april: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://info.med.yale.edu/library/oss4lib So perhaps ten years isn't that far off after all. I also had no idea it was registered by someone in Portugal. All 280 of us here relocated the home office to Lisbon in 2006. Where have you been? And why don't you visit? In case anybody wondered, that list is still alive, as are the majority of its subscribers. Feel free to use it if you like. -Dan
[CODE4LIB] can code4lib survive Oracle's takeover of Sun?
I know the answer is yes, but does anyone care to speculate on the impact of Oracle's takeover of Sun, which controls in addition to open source workhorse JAVA, MySQL, OpenOffice, and Netbeans (all of which complete with proprietary products from Oracle). I haven't heard anything quotable recently from Larry Ellison, but he has in the pass been an ardent opponent of OSS and I find it hard to imagine him not taking advantage of this opportunity to place roadblocks and/or booby traps in the way of the OSS community.
Re: [CODE4LIB] can code4lib survive Oracle's takeover of Sun?
On 04/20/2009 10:13 AM, Barnett, Jeffrey wrote: I know the answer is yes, but does anyone care to speculate on the impact of Oracle's takeover of Sun, which controls in addition to open source workhorse JAVA, MySQL, OpenOffice, and Netbeans (all of which complete with proprietary products from Oracle). Meh. I don't know the intricacies of Java or NetBeans, but with MySQL, a non-nurturing environment at Ora-Sun will either lead to a fork handled by someone more invested in it, or a gradual move to PostgreSQL; if that spurs some development to simplify psql, it's arguably a win all around. OO.o development doesn't seem to be in the fast lane as it is, so I'm not sure it could suffer much if Sun bails on it. And isn't IBM contributing at least as much as Sun these days? Maybe it needs something like this to shake it up. -- Thomas Dowling tdowl...@ohiolink.edu
[CODE4LIB] can code4lib survive Oracle's takeover of Sun?
Barnett, Jeffrey writes: I know the answer is yes, but does anyone care to speculate on the impact of Oracle's takeover of Sun, which controls in addition to open source workhorse JAVA, MySQL, OpenOffice, and Netbeans (all of which complete with proprietary products from Oracle). I haven't heard anything quotable recently from Larry Ellison, but he has in the pass been an ardent opponent of OSS and I find it hard to imagine him not taking advantage of this opportunity to place roadblocks and/or booby traps in the way of the OSS community. I foresee a forkfest. Which of course is the beauty of Free Software: even if the copyright is acquired by an Evil Empire, they can't stop us from continuing to develop from the last freely-released version onwards. There will still be Java, MySQL, OpenOffice and (I suppose it can't be avoided) NetBeans -- the only questions is how much Oracle proposes to involve themselves in the maintenance and development process. _/|____ /o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk )_v__/\ Stay tuned for exciting news about chicken zygapophyses -- Matt Wedel.
Re: [CODE4LIB] can code4lib survive Oracle's takeover of Sun?
The user community for these products is WAY bigger than code4lib, naturally. If Oracle manages to mess them up, then the user community will fork, or migrate to different products, and we will follow. Fortunately we are not alone here, there are giant communities formed around these open source products, which will keep using open source products to fill those functions one way or another, and we'll go with them. Not to imply that a custodial company who wanted to couldn't make things very inconvenient in the short to medium term, sure. But it's just speculation at this point, I don't see any reason to get alarmed. And one way or another, it'll work out in the end. Jonathan Barnett, Jeffrey wrote: I know the answer is yes, but does anyone care to speculate on the impact of Oracle's takeover of Sun, which controls in addition to open source workhorse JAVA, MySQL, OpenOffice, and Netbeans (all of which complete with proprietary products from Oracle). I haven't heard anything quotable recently from Larry Ellison, but he has in the pass been an ardent opponent of OSS and I find it hard to imagine him not taking advantage of this opportunity to place roadblocks and/or booby traps in the way of the OSS community.
Re: [CODE4LIB] can code4lib survive Oracle's takeover of Sun?
IBM has an RDBMS horse in the OSS race (Called Derby). It doesn't seem to have much of a following. I imagine they must have forseen the possiblity of an Oracle takeover when they broke off their own acquisition proposal earlier this (?last) year. I agree there is probably more to come. That's why I posed the question. Netbeans is probably in the weakest position. It already has strong OSS competition from Eclipse (originally IBM sponsored), and IBM, Oracle, and uSoft all have in-house IDEs. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Dowling Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 10:42 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] can code4lib survive Oracle's takeover of Sun? On 04/20/2009 10:13 AM, Barnett, Jeffrey wrote: I know the answer is yes, but does anyone care to speculate on the impact of Oracle's takeover of Sun, which controls in addition to open source workhorse JAVA, MySQL, OpenOffice, and Netbeans (all of which complete with proprietary products from Oracle). Meh. I don't know the intricacies of Java or NetBeans, but with MySQL, a non-nurturing environment at Ora-Sun will either lead to a fork handled by someone more invested in it, or a gradual move to PostgreSQL; if that spurs some development to simplify psql, it's arguably a win all around. OO.o development doesn't seem to be in the fast lane as it is, so I'm not sure it could suffer much if Sun bails on it. And isn't IBM contributing at least as much as Sun these days? Maybe it needs something like this to shake it up. -- Thomas Dowling tdowl...@ohiolink.edu
[CODE4LIB] Poor Apache Derby (was: can code4lib survive Oracle's takeover of Sun?)
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:29 -0400, Barnett, Jeffrey wrote: IBM has an RDBMS horse in the OSS race (Called Derby). It doesn't seem to have much of a following. Heh. So, IBM bought Informix, contributed an overhauled version of Informix Cloudscape to Apache as Apache Derby, and then mostly got out of the Apache Derby business a few years later when they stopped offering paid support for IBM Cloudscape (the IBM-branded redistribution of Apache Derby), although I believe it is still used as a persistence layer by many IBM products. At the same time that IBM was getting out of the paid support business for Apache Derby, Sun was busy investing heavily in it (in terms of developers) and wound up embedding it in Java SE Development Kit under the branded name JavaDB. The Derby mailing list still generates a fair bit of traffic. It's certainly not as high-profile as, say, MySQL or PostgreSQL. In the context of the Oracle-Sun and MySQL/OpenOffice/yada yada parent thread, Derby demonstrates that a software project can 1) go from proprietary to open source, 2) be contributed to by (in some ways) direct competitors, and once it is open source 3) lose commercial support from one company but gain it from another, and 4) survive for whoever depends on it and wants to continue using it regardless of what commercial entities may do. I hear there's at least one good book about Apache Derby out there, although it's rather dated now...
Re: [CODE4LIB] Poor Apache Derby
Dan Scott wrote: In the context of the Oracle-Sun and MySQL/OpenOffice/yada yada parent thread, Derby demonstrates that a software project can 1) go from proprietary to open source, 2) be contributed to by (in some ways) direct competitors, and once it is open source 3) lose commercial support from one company but gain it from another, and 4) survive for whoever depends on it and wants to continue using it regardless of what commercial entities may do. It also shows the dangers of this to the user community though, since by your description Informix ended up forked into Derby and JavaDB, with the commercial support being for JavaDB, but the open source development taking place in Derby, and the open source development being kind of stunted too. A situation which is not great for the users. Still, it could have been worse. To make it better would take (or have taken) concerted effort from the user community -- which probably would have happened if Postgres and MySQL didn't exist, making an open source Derby more important for more people. Jonathan
Re: [CODE4LIB] can code4lib survive Oracle's takeover of Sun?
I don't know if there is anything that can be done about it, but if anyone is interested, I've set up a Facebook group opposing the merger. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=91044005659 --- David Cloutman dclout...@co.marin.ca.us Electronic Services Librarian Marin County Free Library -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Barnett, Jeffrey Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 7:13 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] can code4lib survive Oracle's takeover of Sun? I know the answer is yes, but does anyone care to speculate on the impact of Oracle's takeover of Sun, which controls in addition to open source workhorse JAVA, MySQL, OpenOffice, and Netbeans (all of which complete with proprietary products from Oracle). I haven't heard anything quotable recently from Larry Ellison, but he has in the pass been an ardent opponent of OSS and I find it hard to imagine him not taking advantage of this opportunity to place roadblocks and/or booby traps in the way of the OSS community. Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm
Re: [CODE4LIB] can code4lib survive Oracle's takeover of Sun?
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Cloutman, David wrote: I don't know if there is anything that can be done about it, but if anyone is interested, I've set up a Facebook group opposing the merger. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=91044005659 I doubt that joining a facebook group is going to actually do anything in the matter. If you actually have specific reasons for not wanting the merger, I'm guessing that there's someone to write to at the FTC or DOJ or whatever other government agencies have to approve these mergers. If they decide that the merger would harm competition, they can (must?) reject the merger. - Joe Hourcle Principal Software Engineer Solar Data Analysis Center Goddard Space Flight Center [insert disclaimer here about these being personal comments, and not those of my company or place of work]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Poor Apache Derby (was: can code4lib survive Oracle's takeover of Sun?)
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Dan Scott dsc...@laurentian.ca wrote: I hear there's at least one good book about Apache Derby out there, although it's rather dated now... I have a copy. Signed by one of the authors! -Ross.
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[CODE4LIB] Position Available: Director of Information Technology, Rutgers University Libraries
Apologies for cross-posting DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ Reports to the Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems. Provides vision, leadership, and management of the Integrated Information Systems Department, a 14-person department. Is responsible for policies, procedures, selection, installation, and management of integrated information systems hardware and software, including integrated library system software, Windows networking, digital mass storage, servers, workstations, and peripherals for a three-campus library system. Leads cross-departmental teams in specifying, selecting, purchasing, and installing hardware and software to meet the diverse research and education needs of the libraries' users-the faculty and staff of Rutgers University. Manages the libraries' main computer facility, housing systemwide servers and digital mass storage system. Has primary responsibility for the design, implementation, and management of the libraries' Drupal-enabled website, the SirsiDynix Integrated Library System, and the production Fedora repository system. Proposes policy and sets procedures for information management, including security and maintenance of the libraries' digital information resources. Leads the web services team and will provide leadership in a large-scale redesign of the website to reflect the user experience. Provides leadership to the libraries' preparations for migration to an open library management system in the next two years. Job Requirements Requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, information management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience; plus a minimum of eight years relevant experience, at least five of which must be in a managerial or supervisory capacity in a digital library, library systems, or higher education IT environment. Requires demonstrable expertise in web services technologies (XML, WSDL, Web 2.0, content management systems); demonstrable expertise in storage architectures and management, authentication and authorization strategies, and information security; and demonstrable expertise in software development methodologies and processes, as well as networking architecture and management. Also requires project management skills, ability to make desired progress on multiple projects simultaneously, excellent written and oral communication skills, and leadership abilities. Requires ability to represent the libraries in professional conferences and university IT committees. Prefer master's degree and experience managing integrated library systems. Good working knowledge of SOA (service oriented architecture) and experience with grant funded digital library projects preferred.
