Motherhood and Apple Pie
The axioms of web architecture and an invitation for big vendors to understand them.
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.
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!
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.”
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.”
LAMP and J2EE competition heating up
it seems the tech press is only about a month behind the bloggers now… :)
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!
Open-source LAMP a beacon to developers
Beautiful. Our pal Stephen O'Grady gets a nice quote in this one. To the moon!