Motherhood and Apple Pie —
The axioms of web architecture and an invitation for big vendors to understand them.
lesscode.org
17:00
IBM Poopheads: "LAMP Users Need to Grow Up" —
That is to say, they don’t get it. This started out as a simple rant and turned into a decent sized essay on basic shared-nothing architecture and scaling down.
tomayko.com
18:29
The immediacy of PHP —
David Heinemeier Hansson: “PHP scales down like no other package for the web and it deserves more credit for tackling that scope.”
Agreed!
loudthinking.com
07:57
Sun and MySQL: I don't get it —
Oops: “At $1 billion … Sun paid a multiple of 10 times sales for MySQL today. Optimistically assuming a 20% profit margin, they are looking at a multiple of 50 times earnings for a return on investment of around 2% per year. Optimistically.”
baus.net
06:36
Give Me a M: The MySQL/Sun Q&A —
Steve does the Sun/MySQL aquisition Q&A and speculates on some interesting effects of the deal: “… YouTube sold for $1.6 billion, and consumed virtually no software. If that acquisition was to take place today, they would have been buying from Sun.”
redmonk.com
23:07
LAMP and J2EE competition heating up —
it seems the tech press is only about a month behind the bloggers now… :)
searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com
06:35
Dealing with marketing types... —
Nice python-list thread with Paul Rubin challenging my ibm-poop-heads article and Andrew Dalke (and quite a few others) champions it. This discussion is worth more than the original article!
mail.python.org
16:44
Open-source LAMP a beacon to developers —
Beautiful. Our pal Stephen O'Grady gets a nice quote in this one. To the moon!
news.com.com
07:11