Deploying an Oracle database is one thing, but doing a good recovery backup plan is another matter. Good for us, Oracle comes with its own tool for doing backups called “RMAN”. Sure, one can do backup with the Enterprise Manager, but with it you will need to shut down the database in order to do [...]
Matt Mullenweg of the famous WordPress application talks in the below video about GPL and why WordPress uses it. I recently had some discussions with some people why Razuna, our Open Source Media Management (Digital Asset Management) Solution, uses the AGPL and why we chose it. It think Matt brings it right to the point [...]
Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain gave a very entertaining and enlightening talk about the random kindness on the Internet and how we can all benefit from this worldwide “kindness”. Listening to his talk, you will also understand why open source works and why people spend many many hours contributing to projects without getting any financial rewards [...]