20 Jul 2005

Motherhood and Apple Pie

The axioms of web architecture and an invitation for big vendors to understand them.

lesscode.org   17:00

27 May 2005

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

03 Apr 2008

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

17 Jan 2008

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

16 Jan 2008

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

30 Jun 2005

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

19 Jun 2005

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

14 Jun 2005

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