An Assessment of CMDB Adoptions and Priorities in 2006
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This report includes the industry's first meaningful breakout of CMDB sub-markets ("The Two CMDBs" and "Vendors and Services") as they are likely to take shape over the coming years, and provides both a descriptive way of assessing current market dynamics and technologies, while offering some proscriptive recommendations towards the future evolution of the market.
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At work we're mostly an OSS shop.  Partly because I have a strong bias towards OSS but cost, reliability, security, etc are all leading factors.  For the last several months now I've been in an interesting position to prove the benefits of OSS in a real-world environment.  We've had to extend a number of OSS tools to fit into our production environment.  These are significant additions and non-trivial.  Open Source allows you to STAND on the shoulders of gods.  For example we've been having a problem with the Jakarta DBCP  connection pool.  It was running out of connections in highly threaded environments and is slow.  Certainly slower than would be necessary.  Long story short.  Last night  ...
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On tap for the new database management system: improvements in high availability, performance, scalability, manageability and what Oracle dubs "diagnosability."
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Drake CMS is a light-weight PHP dynamic web authoring and content management system with an embedded flat file database and support for any other database system. High speed, best security, fully internationalized and customizable. Works on any PHP4/PHP5   = Foreword  Drake CMS v0.4.10 Beta RC7 has been released.  This version is a stabilization release update for version 0.4.10 RC6; it contains some bugfixes and improvements. Users are invited to update their previous Drake CMS software.  = Major Changes  The software contains some minor and major features, this is a short list of the most useful:      * fixed subsite bugs and template installation bugs     * it is now possible to directly restore a database backup even when there are not enough file write permissions     * UNIX usernames are now globally enforced     * fixed ordering of content items     * fixed bugs happening with gallery  = Availability  The download packages are available at the SouceForge.net project downloads section .  An automatic update file, update_from_v0.4.10_RC6_to_v0.4.10_RC7.zip, is provided to automatically update the software (PHP/misc files); this patch must be installed manually extracting and overwriting the v0.4.10 RC6 Drake CMS files.  = Subsites update  It is not necessary to update subsites with this patch, as the root website update is enough. Backward compatibility  Drake CMS v0.4.10 Beta RC7 has full database backward compatibility with previous versions of Drake CMS and also supports database imports from Limbo CMS.  There is not and there will not be software compatibility with other CMSes, although software/database conversion from some of the Mambo-family CMSes is easy enough. We have ongoing projects about these conversions (and also for other CMSes), join the forums to discuss about it.  = Manual update instructions  In order to manually update Drake CMS to Drake CMS v0.4.10 RC6 you should proceed as follows:     1. make a database backup and download it on your local computer (or get it via FTP, at your option); this backup should be performed as safety measure    2. use the tarball backup feature with the "user data only" flag active to create a tarball backup; this backup will contain the whole website folder except Drake CMS sources    3. remove all the website files and directories    4. install the latest Drake CMS (you are invited to use the -veloce version of the distribution packages if you can execute PHP scripts which write to file and can upload files to the server only via FTP)    5. upload the tarball archive files in the website root OR upload the tarball archive into the website root and extract it using the veloce.php script (it simply extracts all the files, overwriting)  = Related links  Usage tips:  http://drakecms.sourceforge.net/index.php?option=forum&task=viewpost&catid=25&post_id=2689&Itemid=52  Next Drake CMS official documentation:  http://drakecms.sourceforge.net/book/  Previous Drake CMS official documentation http://drakecms.sourceforge.net/docs/  Download location: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=166901
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Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and wireless software, deepened its commitment to the Linux community with the availability of a free deployment version of an enterprise-class Linux database-Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise
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Could this be an end to broken links? New software replaces and updates links on Web pages.
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Practical tools for assessing who is worth doing business with--and who isn't.
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Given at the University of Regensburg on Sept. 12, 2006
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David has posted an article to the Expirmentalworks.net blog about a task that he and Johannes Schluter have finished up - importing the PHP CVS tree over into Git.   A few month ago Johannes Schluter and I started discussing about GIT and other decentralized version control systems. During our exploration of GIT we thought about importing the PHP CVS tree into git. A few weeks later and a lot of wasted cpu time, we finally managed to provide an inofficial GIT mirror of the PHP CVS repository. ItÃ¢ÂÂs provided by Johannes Schluter and mirrored by me.    The post documents the path they followed - using git-cvsimport, parsecvs and a path they needed to make - to finally get the import working without any flaws. You can check out their unofficial repository here (it's updates twice a day from the live CVS).
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As mentioned in this post on Brian Moon's site the latest edition of phorum has been released.   When we officially started on 5.2 in March of 2006, we had several goals. I think we achieved most of those. We also accomplished some unplanned things. Our hackathon (me and maurice slept about 8 hours in 4 days I think) at MySQL Conference 2007 helped a lot. Remember, you can help us get there again by donating to our fund.   Updates include a new template for the forum, new PAI layers and more hooks to call them, better MySQL support, improved bundled modules, a new announcement system and a new, restructured search functionality.   If out more about the release here and more about the Phorum software here.
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Delivering the capabilities of traditional EAI products within a light-footprint, standards-based infrastructure supporting incremental integration
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This paper introduces some techniques for making backups without needing to stop the business applications. It also describes ways to simplify and reduce the cost of system operations.
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Can digital musicians, artists and other media creators free themselves from the tyranny of popular software design? Commentary by Momus.
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Computer Associates (CA) has introduced a usage-based pricing and licensing model for its mainframe management products. The model bases licensing costs on measured system usage rather than total potential
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Open-source database to jump from beta testing to production within three months.
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IBM rolls out a new version of its database software aimed at users of Linux and Unix. Also: Toyota and Nissan join to standardize car electronics & hellip;. Nokia launches three new camera phones & hellip;. and more.
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In response to several other posts lately about the PEAR::DB package in PEAR (and things that could be done to improve it), David Coallier got a bit fed up and shared his opinion - "PEAR::DB is deprecated, got it?"   All new features are made into MDB2 and not DB, the only thing that is being done on DB is security fixes. So MDB2 is first of all, faster, smaller (Because of it's driver and modularity), easier, and has more features (LOB handling, Iterator, etc) and better end-user documentation, quite solid docs indeed.   Of course, the comments of the post are full of people arguing to keep it around and others that agree with David, especially in light of a MDB2 driver for the Zend Framework he mentions.