davetong

I had an interesting discussion with a colleague yesterday who raised some questions I couldn't answer:

1. Who funds open source projects and the main contributors to those projects? For instance, the Rails project has key contributors who seem to be working full-time on the project.

2. Can an open source project get acquired by an organisation and become a proprietary product?

OM had an article about why FB prefers MySQL and quotes FB's Mark Callaghan for his reasons.

Did anyone ever ask whether Callaghan's previous 8 years at Oracle had any impact of why he is an evangelist for mysql?

Furthermore, this Callaghan says "The implementations just aren’t as mature, he said, and there are no published cases of NoSQL databases operating at the scale of Facebook’s MySQL database". WHAT A JOKER!!!

He needs to get out into the real world and do his research! There have been successful NoSQL implementations for over 30 years! I'm going to dig up some stats for the number of queries and transactions so stay tuned...

Here's the full article: http://bit.ly/t5fNY2

I've noticed an anti-pattern in job adverts of the mis-labelling of the job position of a "programmer" as a "software engineer". There are major differences between the two so why do job adverts do it?