Tag Archive for ‘opensource’ at Joao Barros

Tag Archive for 'opensource'

Sun buys MySQL AB

Published on January 16, 2008 in Sun. 0 Comments

Just saw on Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz blog, Sun to acquire MySQL AB.

Sun is building for itself a strong image as a One Stop Shop Solution Provider, with complete Hardware, Software, Integration and Support. It has been doing it for a while, just not with Open Source and not at this level.

One question crossed my mind as soon as I saw the post: what happens to Sun’s support of PostgreSQL on Solaris ?

Interesting times we live in…

Inside Google: High Availability through Load Balancing

Published on October 13, 2007 in Google. 0 Comments

Today was the first day of the Open Source event “I Fórum Software Livre” here in Portugal.

The session I was most eager to attend was Fernanda Weiden’s about Load Balancing.

She’s Brazilian by birth but works at Google in Switzerland where she’s responsible for the Load Balancing solution.

I had the chance to ask her some questions at the session and some more after and not only she’s very technical savy she’s also very pretty and friendly.

Too bad she brought her boyfriend with her :>

Honestly I was expecting some in house bred solution, but apparently Google uses standard and available open source apps for their Load Balancing solution.

I’m hoping the session slides that have specific details will be available soon so I’ll update when that happens.

BitTorrent client for the Mac: Transmission

Published on September 6, 2007 in Mac. 0 Comments

My favorite client on Windows was Azureus and when I bought the Mac I continued using it. The thing is, Azureus has many nice features mas it is fat and recently was turned into something I definitely do not want. I just want to download some files on ocasion and want the process to be fast and light.

Then I found Transmission. It’s small, light and works like a charm. Perfect!

Here’s some screenshots (you can find more on the project’s homepage):

The main window:

The torrent inspector window:

With the download in the screenshot in progress the application used 26MB of memory

Transmission is now part of my Essential Apps.

AMD to open up graphics specs

Published on September 6, 2007 in Linux. 0 Comments

LWN broke the news about AMD announcing the decision to enable the development of open source drivers by making specifications available for all its graphics processors starting from the R500.

A few more details came up on Christopher Blizzard’s blog and I can only say kudos to AMD!

Intel started it all, AMD goes one step further and nVidia gets left alone.

Speaking of nVidia, a quick browse of the comments on this news and you can often find something like “I was going to buy nVidia but now…”

I hope companies finally start seeing their lack of support for opensource as something that hurts them: Look, that’s your money running.

New job

Published on September 2, 2007 in Jobs. 1 Comment

I can now speak of this: Friday, 31 of August was my last day working for Agap2 at IBM. Starting tomorrow I’m starting a new project at VerticalOne as a Senior Consultant in Open Source technologies.

Who says work can’t be fun

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