Tag Archives: Apache

Daily Links for Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Bob Sutor

Open Source The Open Source Initiative’s corporate status is suspended: a CAOS Theory Q&A 451 CAOS Theory / Matthew Aslett The ability of the Open Source Initiative to steward the Open Source Definition and police the use of the term … Continue reading →

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Optimizing the site

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Bob Sutor

At lunch I found myself reading the ACM Queue article “High Performance Web Sites” and wondering how sutor.com would stack up. Obviously it’s not a site that gets millions of hits, but it does all right for itself. So I … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-03-20

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Bob Sutor

Arnaud’s Open blog – Let’s be clear: The Apache Software Foundation does NOT support OOXML. “The other good news is that whether OOXML gets approved or not, I believe Microsoft will pay a high price for all of its mischief … Continue reading →

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Apache, PHP, Mac

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Bob Sutor

The good news is that since the Mac OS X is based on the BSD flavor of Unix, it comes with things like PHP and Apache. The bad news is that both are pathetically backlevel. This is fixable, however, and … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-04-04

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Bob Sutor

GPL v3 GPL v3: V for vindication | InfoWorld | By Neil McAllister Amen. Great article, Neil. (tags: gplv3) From Here to There Michael Dolan Dot Com: JBoss to Apache Geronimo Code/App Conversion Tool “I saw this the other day … Continue reading →

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Websphere CE 1.1 now available

Posted on September 26, 2006 by Bob Sutor

My IBM colleague Bharath Duggirala from Bangalore just reminded me that WebSphere Application Server Community Edition was released last week in its Version 1.1 edition. The download includes 30 days of free support. Websphere CE is based on the open … Continue reading →

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Teach your children about open. Even better, show them.

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Bob Sutor

I’ve been in Raleigh the last two days participating in the K-12 Open Technologies Summit at the William & Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. It was quite intense but this wasn’t a group singalong … Continue reading →

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Online office apps, continued

Posted on June 13, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Over in his ZDNet blog, David Berlind continues the distributed discussion around online office productivity apps, this time keeping the discussion to presentation software. He picks up the discussion by CNet’s Rafe Needleman that I linked to last Friday. David … Continue reading →

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IBM, Gluecode, Geronimo: One year later

Posted on May 17, 2006 by Bob Sutor

We just issued a press release with some news about the WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE). Here’s the beginning: IBM Marks One-Year Anniversary of Gluecode Acquisition With New Open Source Partner Initiative ARMONK, NY — (MARKET WIRE) — … Continue reading →

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Jon Udell picks up the presentation software thread

Posted on May 17, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Last month I posted a couple of entries about alternatives to commercial presentation graphics programs that we are very familiar with using (“Where’s the killer open source presentation software?” and “More on presentation software – look at Opera Show“). The … Continue reading →

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Setting up Ubuntu

Posted on May 7, 2006 by Bob Sutor

On my personal time, I’ve been playing with Ubuntu on the desktop. This is one of the most popular Linux distributions and it is part of the Debian family of distributions. From time to time I’m going to post about … Continue reading →

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Apache Tuscany

Posted on March 30, 2006 by Bob Sutor

I’m not sure many people have heard of this, so I thought I would provide a pointer to the Tuscany project now under incubation in Apache. Here’s a blurb from the description there: Apache Tuscany provides runtime capabilities for applications … Continue reading →

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ODF and web office suites

Posted on February 22, 2006 by Bob Sutor

People often ask me why I think the OpenDocument Format situation is any different now compared to where we were 15 or 20 years ago when there were SGML formats and specifications for documents that could have become at least … Continue reading →

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ObjectWeb planning a big push

Posted on February 12, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Depending on where you live, the ObjectWeb web application server is probably the first or third open source web application server you think of. The other two are the Apache Geronimo server and JBoss (and Marge Breya of BEA had … Continue reading →

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Apache web stats

Posted on January 18, 2006 by Bob Sutor

This entry is in the spirit of blogging things that I find out and putting them somewhere for future reference. You can find the relative marketshare of the different web servers at Netcraft. Apache was down a bit this month, … Continue reading →

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Site settling down

Posted on January 17, 2006 by Bob Sutor

I did some more fiddling with the website tonight, fixing some CSS and adjusting some of the display. I was able to install both Apache and PHP on my local computer, which made it much easier to test the configuration … Continue reading →

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Open Source Apache Geronimo Web Server 1.0 released

Posted on January 6, 2006 by Bob Sutor

See “Apache releases Geronimo 1.0 app server” on CNet.

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Standards Amplifiers

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Bob Sutor

Several months ago I posted an entry called called “Standards and open source: they are not unrelated” where I made some points around the connections between standards and open source. Open source libraries that implement standards are what I call … Continue reading →

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Resources for IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition

Posted on December 2, 2005 by Bob Sutor

This note was sent me from the developerWorks folks about WebSphere Application Server Community Edition which I mentioned a few weeks ago. This is the product that is built on Apache Geronimo. Being an old WebSphere guy myself, I thought … Continue reading →

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Free download of WebSphere Application Server Community Edition

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Bob Sutor

IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, Version 1.0 is a lightweight Java(TM) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server built on Apache Geronimo, the open source application server project of the Apache Software Foundation. You can download it for no … Continue reading →

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Apache Geronimo, Gluecode, WebSphere Community Edition

Posted on October 25, 2005 by Bob Sutor

But wait, there’s even more “open” news from IBM today. IBM Unveils New Apache Geronimo-Based Software and SupportARMONK, NY — Oct 25, 2005 — IBM today announced new open source-based software and support, expanding IBM’s commitment to help customers innovate … Continue reading →

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Apache Geronimo web application server is now J2EE 1.4 certified

Posted on October 7, 2005 by Bob Sutor

See the Apache Geronimo site. Update: CNET story on this

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IBM’s Steve Mills on Apache Geronimo, Gluecode, open source, startups, and more

Posted on October 5, 2005 by Bob Sutor

See “Mills: IBM Has Advantage over ‘Precarious’ Startups”

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On open source application servers

Posted on July 14, 2005 by Bob Sutor

David Berlind has a blog entry on how we are now closing in on three J2EE-certified open source web application servers with JBoss and JOnAS already there and Apache Geronimo knocking at the door. Speaking personally and unofficially, I don’t … Continue reading →

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Talk at Green Party meeting

Posted on June 3, 2005 by Bob Sutor

Yesterday morning I gave a short presentation in Brussels at the Green Party “Free Software and Software Patents” hearing. As it turns out, I did not project anything and just spoke from the points I had prepared. These are those … Continue reading →

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Macehiter Ward-Dutton on the Gluecode acquisition

Posted on May 15, 2005 by Bob Sutor

Here’s another analyst report on the Gluecode acquisition, this time from Neil Macehiter of Macehiter Ward-Dutton: “IBM’s acqusition of Gluecode: it’s about more than open source”. These guys split off from Ovum a while back to go out on their … Continue reading →

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News: IBM acquires Gluecode Software

Posted on May 10, 2005 by Bob Sutor

There’s some big news this morning. I’ll have more later, but here’s some info to get you started: Press release: IBM Acquires Gluecode Software; Acquisition Builds On IBM Support For Open Source Technology; Expands Customer And Business Partner Choice For … Continue reading →

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Some links for 9 May, 2005

Posted on May 9, 2005 by Bob Sutor

alphaWorks : Emerging Technologies Toolkit Quotes of the Day – The Quotations Page At 10, Java’s wild success, missed chances | InfoWorld | News | 2005-05-05 | By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service IBM delivers Tivoli identity software | InfoWorld … Continue reading →

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