Repair Manifesto

Things are changing... maybe we don't how deep, how fast... But let's go to the point.

It seems that car companies are one of most important keys to get out of the crisis, honestly, I don't understand how a single product could be such an important one. Sure I don't understand the depthness of the question... Now, there're a lot of credit facilities if you you want to buy a brand new car.

I feel quite concerned about ecological issues, so it's time to remind to all us this:

Oracle wins, IBM losses

The most important thing was: who was going to retain the control over java?... in short, IBM has let passed by a great chance.

How this has happened, there were this steps:

1. IBM offers an insuficient amount of money uppon Sun
2. Sun looks for some other candidate
3. IBM brokes negotiation when they know Sun is looking for someone else
4. ...tic tac... a couple of days/weeks without news
5. Oracle take the chance and buy Sun

So IBM has losse a great chance to keep control over java and now Oracle has to merge new bussines -such a hardware or OS-

There're more questions, what is going to happen with MySQL, with OID versus Directory Server from Sun? How hardware is going to be managed from Oracle? ... and you may keep on with all those questions, but comming back to my main thought:
Oracle: 1 | IBM: 0

Some thoughts about IBM plans to buy Sun

This days there's some buzz about IBM plans to buy SUN, it really doesn't affect a poor boy such me but just for fun I was thinking about it.

The golden egg is Java. I have no idea about how many chances offers to IBM to get Java under its umbrella, you simply consider that one of the main IBM products is its WebSphere. You may also think about how competitors will stay by a Java under IBM controls while they also has its owns Java servers.

Minors things to consider:

• Eclipse, now with IBM and no code suite in Sun to compete with,
• MySql, bought by Sun, how MySql stays under this new map?
• Solaris, with an OpenSolaris and a commercial Solaris, how it remains in IBM's portfolio, side by side with Aix, AS ...
• Oracle data base, and others software products runs over Solaris, how does it end with Solaris under IBM control?

Ultra notebook with Linux

You're not trendy if haven't a ultra-notebook or you don't know what is it. Well, if you doesn't know what it is, don't worry; it's a evolution from the original OLPC project that has evolved 'till becomes the latest gadget you may buy.

There's something very good in the idea; most of people doesn't need an expensive pc to get connected, browse the Internet and use the minimal amount of applications we all really need (browser, mail, chat). A minimal unexpensive and portable laptop may cover all that needs. I agree with the idea.

Differents hardware vendors offers their solutions, but in the beginning they all come with Windoes XP. It really was a breathe for Windows XP and a damnation for Vista. There were a player yet to come; Linux.

Fedora has done some stuff for this, but it surprises me that a little work from Argentina has achieve a success: Tuquito in Chile (stand for Tucuman, their original city). This school has forget what virus and lack of memory means.

It's easy to find detailed benchmarks about how a distro runs on that hardware, I've already found pages about how others distros runs in that ultra notebooks, but what I've found for the very first time is a normal story about non technical users using it, in a real situation, and look: their are kids in a school. It sounds great.

Importance of holding a degree

There're a couple of guys from Red Hat working at my office, no one of them has a degree... yet. Since they both are almost degreed, one of them waiting for validation between to differents degrees and the other one waiting for Bologna plan to be implanted, but that's another story.

The fact is that a company such a Red Hat hires people attending their competence not their qualifications. As long as I knew is the first time I see something like this. Most companies uses academics qualifications as a first filter to eliminate candidates, them they keep some of them and they start to look for some other curriculum, such a certifications (Oracle, Cisco, RHCE, or whatever).

So, does it has any sense being degreed? Interesting for someone who is working and studing at the same time. By now, although I don't agree is useful if you're thinking in job market. But for sure, you don't have to miss the main goal; if you achieve a degree without being competent in any area (database admin, free software admin, java programming, whatever) you're also out.

He amat la Mort

This post goes in my mother tongue:

He amat la Mort perquè ella m'ha fet amar molt més

I've got a Mac

Finally I've got a Mac... yes I know it is not free software since it comes with MacOS but (remember there's allways a but) it offers me the chance to test other quite good OS and also install on it Fedora.

I keep you updated...