Posted on Wed 03 January 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Libraries
A little over a week ago, I made the following prediction following the extremely under-the-radar press release on December 22nd that Vista Equity Partners was investing in SirsiDynix:
I'll go out on a limb and say that a merger or acquisition of SirsiDynix in 2007 is unlikely (33% confidence), but …
One of my favourite online publications, the Linux Weekly News, recently published an article called The state of PHP security. Given Stefan's departure, the great taint debate, the addition of ext/filter in 5.2.0 and all of the associated security changes in both the 5.2.x and …
Posted on Sun 24 December 2006 in Family • Tagged with Amber
Okay, okay... I've heard the complaints (which have been streaming in over the past couple of weeks). The general tone is something like this:
So I've been checking this site that is dedicated to celebrating all of the wonder that is Amber, and all I've seen is a bunch of …
Sirsi Corporation merged with Dynix Corporation in June 2005. Now SirsiDynix has announced that Vista Equity Partners is investing in their company.
Let's take a look at Vista's investment philosophy:
*We invest in companies that uniquely leverage technology to deliver best-of-class products or services.*
I wonder if Vista confused "most …
Posted on Tue 12 December 2006 in Databases • Tagged with Apache Derby
A quick little note to mention the official release of Java 6. Okay, Dan, but why do you care?, you might ask. Good question, oh person-who-does-not-read-headlines.
The reason I care is that Sun chose to bundle Apache Derby in this release -- take a peek in the /db/ subdirectory of the …
I gave up on trying to get Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to run ejabberd today; it looks like there are some fundamental issues going on between the version of erlang and the version of ejabberd that get bundled together. That was a fairly serious setback to my "Evergreen on …
Posted on Fri 17 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I managed to corner Mike Rylander after Brad Lajeunesse waved his hands in surrender and offered Mike up as a sacrifice to my questions about Evergreen's support for internationalization. If you're travelling to Canada to tout a piece of (or multiple components of) software, you can be sure that somebody …
Posted on Fri 17 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
After the Future of the ILS Symposium wrapped up, Beth Jefferson walked some of us through the current state of the BiblioCommons mocked-up Web UI for public library catalogs; the project grew out of a youth literacy project designed to encourage kids to read through the same sort of social …
Posted on Fri 17 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
I headed down to Windsor early on Tuesday morning for the Future of the ILS Symposium hosted by the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor. It was a good thing I decided to take the 12 hours of bus + train approach to getting there, as Sudbury's airport was completely …
Posted on Tue 14 November 2006 in Databases • Tagged with Apache Derby, Coding
A while back I mentioned on the DSpace-devel mailing list that I was interested in adapting DSpace to use embedded Apache Derby as the default database, rather than PostgreSQL, as a means of lowering the installation and configuration barriers involved with setting up access to an external database. I haven't …