tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17733258296022797712024-02-20T02:35:59.541-08:00Jeff's Technology BlogJeff Renehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643509848398226902noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773325829602279771.post-90812268049419741712008-02-05T10:32:00.000-08:002008-02-05T10:36:52.444-08:00EclipseCon Early Registration Deadline is February 14This time EclipseCon takes place March 17-20, in Santa Clara, CA. There are more than 350 tutorials and talks covering all aspects of Eclipse technology and commercial interests. It is possible to register by February 14 for a $700 discount off the onsite price.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/"><img border="0" src="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/image125x125.gif" height="125" width="125" alt="EclipseCon 2008"/></a>Jeff Renehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643509848398226902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773325829602279771.post-91026540297326374462008-01-31T03:12:00.000-08:002008-01-31T03:42:31.186-08:00open source = successful business strategy<div><br />Again a company is bought for a huge amount of money, which successfully placed an open source product in the market.<br /><br />On 16 January 2008 MySQL AB announced an agreement to be acquired by Sun Microsystems for approximately US $1 billion. The acquisition is expected to close in the third or fourth quarter of Sun's fiscal year which ends on 30 June 2008.<br /><br />This acquisition shows clearly how interesting open source has become as a business strategy. The market value of a product is not influenced by the type of license. Wether its closed or open source is just not important for successful marketing.<br /><br />Nonetheless I hope we will see less closed source in the future.<br /></div>Jeff Renehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643509848398226902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1773325829602279771.post-39662180869940807922008-01-26T03:16:00.000-08:002008-02-01T03:42:37.771-08:00OOP 2008 in MunichHi there!<div><br /></div><div>Since I am from Munich, Germany, my first post will be about our local technology fair, the OOP. This fair is organized by SIGS DATACOM, a German publishing house specialized on object oriented software development.</div><div><br /></div><div>You can find out more about the OOP checking following blogs:</div><div><br /></div><div>Stefan Tilkov - <a href="http://www.innoq.com/blog/st">http://www.innoq.com/blog/st</a></div><div>Wolfgang Neuhaus - <a href="http://apps.itemis.de/roller/jwagener/">http://apps.itemis.de/roller/jwagener</a></div><div>Markus Voelter - <a href="http://www.voelter.de">http://www.voelter.de</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Jeff Renehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643509848398226902noreply@blogger.com0