Author: Markus Perdrizat
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Open Source Strategies for Software Vendors
Open source strategies: From time to time I advise a software vendor on how, whether, or to what extent it should offer its technology in open source. In summary, I believe: The formal differences between “open source” and “closed source” strategies are of secondary importance. The attitudinal and emotional differences between “open source” and “closed…
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Interview with Nick Chamandy, statistician at Google
Interview with Nick Chamandy, statistician at Google: Nick Chamandy received his M.S. in statistics from the University of Chicago, his Ph.D. in statistics at McGill University and joined Google as a statistician. We talked to him about how he ended up at Google, what software he uses, and how big the Google data sets are.…
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How would a #NoFirePolicy affect your company?
How would a #NoFirePolicy affect your company? An interview with NextJump CEO Charlie Kim who decided to do just that.: Take hiring for example. Once you realize that you are entering into a lifelong relationship, hiring starts to look a lot more like adoption, or dating. Multiple interactions over some time are required before our…
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Google’s Vint Cerf talks identifiers vs. pseudonyms online
Google’s Vint Cerf talks identifiers vs. pseudonyms online: Cerf suggested to imagine a device running on hardware that can generate public and private key pairs in which the private key can’t be extracted without destroying the pair. Furthermore, imagine that the private key can’t be computed from the public key — at least not in…
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Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture
Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture – Luis Villa: The open license ecosystem assumes that sharing can’t (or even shouldn’t) happen without explicit permission in the form of licenses. What if “post open source” is an implicit critique of that assumption – saying, in essence, “I reject the permission culture”? If so, license…
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Forking and the Future of Permissively Licensed Open Source Platforms
Cloud Foundry, Forking and the Future of Permissively Licensed Open Source Platforms: A week ago today a minor skirmish broke out on Twitter between Apprenda – purveyor of PaaS software – and advocates of the open source Cloud Foundry project, originally created by VMware. The major point of contention concerned forks; specifically forks of the…
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Big Data brings intelligence-based security, RSA chief says
Big Data brings intelligence-based security, RSA chief says: Big data will transform the way enterprises architect and manage security and will finally help get the good guys out in front of the bad guys, said Art Coviello, executive vice president of EMC and executive chairman of RSA. He said an “intelligence-driven model can be made…
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NuoDB’s Pluggable Cloud Database
NuoDB’s Pluggable Cloud Database: Pluggable databases give developers and administrators the ability to create a database container and provision multiple databases within that single container. This is also known as multi-tenancy. The cloud environment is a prime candidate for pluggable databases. Shot against Oracle… well done, but not answering the call for Oracle compatibility.
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PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm
Exclusive: PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm: As part of its effort, Affirm will use Facebook for authentication of consumers, and also use a number of other social and data signals to assess risk. It will then guarantee payment to merchants — who will pay Affirm a fee — after this check. “We…
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Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems
Comments on Gartner’s 2012 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems — evaluations: To my taste, the most glaring mis-rankings in the 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management are that it is too positive on Kognitio and too negative on Infobright. Secondarily, it is too negative on HP Vertica, and too…
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