Brij’s One More Idea

Only Oracle Survive

By Brij ⋅ February 14, 2006 ⋅ Comments

When you are buying companies like there is no tomorrow it can mean only few things. Only paranoid survive philosophy hitting software industry and software industry consolidation has become a goal rather than a prediction.
There will be a fierce battle to get into [...]

Internet changes everything…one more time !

By Brij ⋅ January 15, 2006 ⋅ Comments

John Mark has made good points in his attempt to bust conventional understanding of the open source. His main point is that open source success would have happened without the individual glories like Linus and Stallman thanks to dramatic impact of the Internet [...]

Scale free learning framework

By Brij ⋅ December 20, 2005 ⋅ Comments

While discussing the state of eLearning in India during our 3:30@Lab session, we talked about the need to have scale-free many-to-many learning framework over the Internet.
In plain terms what this means is having an Internet based platform which will allow many teachers to join together to teach as many students in a [...]

Bill G’s tax related fud

By Brij ⋅ December 13, 2005 ⋅ Comments

During the recent trip to India, Bill Gates was asked to comment on the growing phenomena of open source.
Giving his usual answer that it’s not going to be at the same quality level as proprietary software he dropped in a carefully worded hint to the government officials, it basically meant that “Open source is [...]

India 2.0

By Brij ⋅ November 23, 2005 ⋅ Comments

Not sure if my title of this post is politically correct but there are too many things changing here in Bangalore. And like Web2.0 lot of these changes carry the “Beta Release” tag. City is changing and getting pushed to it’s limits. Depending on your perspective one can see the plus and minuses of “release [...]

Finally Sun DB has a name

By Brij ⋅ November 18, 2005 ⋅ Comments

And it’s Postgres. Sun in a very clever move has decided to bundle two other open source components in their open source Solaris operating system.
Aiming directly at Red hat by bundling Postgres and Xen, Sun might be upto something very interesting here. Postgres always lacked big enterprise vendor support, there was no vendor doing [...]

Who is this guy ?

By Brij ⋅ November 13, 2005 ⋅ Comments

Splash. Just for fun. That’s a clue.

It’s not the cost

By Brij ⋅ November 2, 2005 ⋅ Comments

CIOs confirm my point that the open source adoption will take place in enterprises because of the fast improving support services and maturity of technology components.
This debate is beyond the cost issue now.

Right to information

By Brij ⋅ October 26, 2005 ⋅ Comments

Government of India finally enforced the Right to Information Act allowing public at large to request information related to government activities. It’s similar to Freedom of Information Act of US department of justice.
Though there are many exceptions in terms of what all one can request from the Government bodies but this should be a good [...]

Open Sour Contract

By Brij Singh ⋅ October 15, 2005 ⋅ Comments

If there is one thing open source community lacks then it has to be the patience required to understand and adapt to the legal contractual base of the open source business model. It’s a very unsexy thing to do and downright boring most of the time.
Whereas if they are putting their money where [...]

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