Best Buy is one of those companies that loves Microsoft. So I was particularly happy when I saw this announcement come across about Best Buy Idea X:
“a website where you can share, vote for, and discuss ideas that will help make Best Buy a better company. The site is built using Ruby on Rails and runs in Amazon’s Compute Cloud.”
Maybe open source and cloud computing isn’t so bad, ‘eh? Beautiful looking site too.
Mark Nutter writes about Why Developers are Switching to Mac.
“Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t come bundled with PHP, Rails, or any other open-source web development frameworks or languages any time soon. More and more of what we do is in the cloud these days anyways and it is almost starting to feel quaint when you come across new software that runs solely as a desktop client. Microsoft has painted themselves into a corner – they rely on closed formats and standards in a world where open source software, open formats, and open standards are king.”
I have to agree. I know very few web developers that have Windows and like it. Most “Web 2.0″ developers I know already have Mac’s, or are planning to switch soon, which makes me wonder what that will happen long term … if all future software is on the web (which seems to be the case more and more each year), and all of that is developed on non-Microsoft tools, will Microsoft cease to be relevant?
From the release notes:
The real reason Coltrane is such a huge leap forward is because the community was so involved with every step of the process. Over 150 people contributed code directly to the release, our highest ever, with many tens of thousands more participating in the polls, surveys, tests, mailing lists, and other feedback mechanisms the WordPress dev team used in putting this release together.
This is why open source is such an amazing thing. Imagine what the corporate bill would be to hire a team of 150 highly talented, motivated and productive employees — just for one single release. Now go look at how many significant releases they have kicked out this year.
I think this open source thing is here to stay.
Information Week: The Open Source Enterprise: Its Time Has Come
Led by founder and CTO Ari Zilka, once the chief architect for Walmart.com [...] Terracotta saves money not because you can download it for free–though you can–but because it’s a substitute for buying more database systems, more application servers, and more hardware to run overworked applications, the former brute-strength solution to a data-volume problem.
IE, Open Source uses resources more efficiently than their proprietary counterparts. Nice.
“In mid 2006, YouTube served approximately 100 million videos in a single day. To maintain a website of that scale, one would imagine YouTube has hundreds of DBAs. But in fact, there are just three people that make it all work. Paul Tuckfield, the MySQL DBA at YouTube shares horror stories about scalability at YouTube and how he coped with them to keep the show going everyday, while learning important lessons along the way.”
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