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04.15.08Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview with Sean Corfield and our open source Digital Media and Web Content Management SystemAnd another well done interview by Alan Williamson on members of the Steering Committee. This time it hit Sean Corfield. We especially like this part of his interview where he was asked his opinion on CFML, open source and the community; "The CFML community is definitely getting better in this area but open source is still a very new concept for the vast majority of them. Many developers have released code in source form but for the most part those offerings have not really been "open source" - no way to build a community, no clear licensing, no public ...
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04.11.08Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Member InterviewAnd the next Interview with members of the Open BlueDragon Steering Committee makes the round. This time it is Mike Brunt who shares his vision of the BlueDragon.
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04.10.08Open BlueDragon Steering Committee interview’sA lot of news and movement is coming out of the Open BlueDragon project. Last week all the people on the Steering Committee were introduced and now there are interviews available with some of them. Very cool effort of Alan Williamson. Here are the first two available interviews: Any Allan - Interview Peter Amiri - Interview
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04.08.08The Open BlueDragon Steering Committee initial participantAlan Williamson just posted who is on the initial Open BlueDragon Steering Committee. I am sure, that with these Gentlemans on board BlueDragon will have a bright future.
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04.01.08The AGPL in simple wordsSince we have announced that we are going to open source our Digital Asset Management under the Affero General Public License (AGPL) we have had some questions about the licensing, meaning what the AGPL exactly is. The place to start is with the "ASP loophole" in popular open source licenses, including the GPLv3. Under the GPL, of course, if you distribute software you must distribute the source. But what if you're an application service provider - someone who provides a service over the web using open source software? In that case, you're not distributing the software, and you don't have to ...
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04.01.08One more thing that will be different in the BlueDragon J2EE open source offeringVince Bonfanti was giving a talk to the ColdFusionWeeklyPodcast and in it he states that there will be a additional 4th feature that will not make the cut in the open source edition (we already stated the difference of the open source versus the commercial one). "Precompile templates" is a way to ship your application without shipping the source. Vince states that it does not make sense (for New Atlanta) to give away their source and people will have the option to hide the source of their applications. This is philosophically not correct for them. No problem from our end. Since we ...
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03.28.08Open Source and the futureFrom a survey during the latest InfoWorld Open Source conference: "...Respondents indicated that they like the low price that open source offers. But open source was attractive for more than its low price: Respondents also indicated that they like to have access to the source code, as well as freedom from being locked into a single vendor. This means that customers do see a difference between "free of charge" and "open source," and are likely to prefer open-source solutions even when they are offered commercial products for little or no cost..." "...Perhaps the most revealing statistic was the answer to the question, ...
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03.27.08SixSigns announces free open source Enterprise Media Asset ManagementSixSigns is announcing today that we have plans to release our Enterprise Media Asset Management (MAM) as a free open source edition (based on ColdFusion). Our MAM system has been previously deployed as a licensed system and is currently in use by over 70 organizations. Our plan has always been to release the system as a open source solution, but it only made sense since New Atlanta's announcement of releasing BlueDragon as open source last week. As said, we are still in the planning of the open source edition, but here is a summary: The MAM system will be released under the ...
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03.25.08BlueDragon Open Source - Launch Date AnnouncedAlan Williamson posted today that the New Atlanta will be doing the first ever code drop for the BlueDragon J2EE open source edition on the 3rd of May at the upcoming cf.Objective() conference.
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03.19.08CFML goes mobile with Blue Dragon Open SourceWow, I think this post is very good and big news to the CF community. On top of last weeks announcement that the Blue Dragon J2EE Edition will go open source, today Alan Williamson posted that with iJetty together with Google Android would allow to run the Blue Dragon on top of your mobile phone. According to Alan: "This basically means, that we will be able to produce a version of BlueDragon that will be able to utilise this platform and to cut a long story short, your CFML apps are now mobile!" I think next to Adobe AIR, this is the ...
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03.19.08Lawrence Lessing Free Culture PresentationBelow is Lawrence Lessig's last presentation that he plans to ever give on "Free Culture." He gave this talk January 31, 2008 at Stanford University. This video comes directly from the Open Source Cinema. Download media
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03.14.08Blue Dragon J2EE Open Source Edition differenceNy now, most of the people heard about New Atlanta's "soon to be released" Open Source release of the Blue Dragon J2EE Edition. Actually we are very excited about it, as we are soon going to announce one of our major products to be released as Open Source as well. A lot of people have wondered what will not be included in the Open Source Edition and Vince Bonfanti has now released a statement which outlines the major changes of the commercial edition and the Open Source edition. Here is the statement: [Quote] There will be three differences between the commericial and open ...
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03.01.08How Open Source is developed - inspired Microsoft Server 2008Over at the blog of Sam Ramji, director of the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft, wrote an interesting piece about "How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008". If you are interested in the next version of Windows Server and are also into Open Source, I recommend that you read the post. It clearly states what they have "taken" from the Open Source community and how software is developed. But one thing, that I get out of this post is that Open Source is not only how to develop and distribute software, but more a Business model. I guess, we will ...
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02.25.08Adobe engages in Open SourceIn case you have not seen the announcements in the past, Adobe engages also in Open Source activities. Head over to http://opensource.adobe.com/ to check out what they have to over. Especially in the light of today's Flex 3 announcement it is important to note that Adobe also releases the Flex 3 SDK under 2 different licenses.
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01.16.08Sun to acquire MySQLAnother big new from the IT world. Sun Microsystems announced that it has agreed to acquire open source database leader MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and assumed stock options. This is coming directly from Tim O'Reilly.
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