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Open Source Advocacy with Reverend Ted @import url( http://s.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/blue-green/style.css?m=1219803973a ); /* */ var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src="http://reverendted.wordpress.com//" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); var wpcomPageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-52447-2");wpcomPageTracker._setDomainName("wordpress.com");wpcomPageTracker._initData();wpcomPageTracker._trackPageview(); /**/August 5, 2008 SALT for your Brain Food Filed under: Random Stuff — Ted Haeger @ 1:07 pm If you wonder where the world is heading, and want to gain perspective beyond the brief experience and limited viewpoint that our workaday lives permit, I strongly recommend getting into the Seminars on Longterm Thinking from the Long Now Foundation. Fair warning: these are pretty much the antithesis of the MTV-shaped media world. Each edition, most over an hour make you think deeply about whatever subject it presents.BackgroundI feel like I have known the Long Now thinkers for much of my life. While it was Nat Friedman who turned me on to the SALT lectures about a year and a half ago (I credit and thank him duly), I took interest because I had heard about the Long Now Foundation some years earlier from Tech TV’s program Big Thinkers. That program introduced me to Stewart Brand, his foundation, and a 10,000 year clock–a physical clock that chimes every 10 thousand years, to be located somewhere out in Nevada’s Great Basin desert. Brian Eno–the musician who produced the Talking Heads, U2, Devo and many other breakout bands–is involved in the Long Now, and that was the main thing that originally grabbed my attention. I’ve listened to Eno’s music since high school (Before and After Science again and again and again). Do all roads lead to Eno? Comments (0) August 4, 2008 New Bungee Line featuring the Open Web Foundation Filed under: Random Stuff — Ted Haeger @ 10:36 am  Catch Scott Kveton on the latest edition of my podcast for web developers, The Bungee Line. Scott tells all he knows about the recent announcement of “The Open Web Foundation.” Comments (0) July 29, 2008 Biking in the Sun with MindTouch Filed under: Events, Linux/OSS, Random Stuff — Tags: biking, mindtouch, oscon, wiki — Ted Haeger @ 7:48 am At OSCON, Sun threw a little party with free beer for all.Evil genius Aaron Fulkerson (of MindTouch) had a rabbit costume.I had a bicycle.I wonder what kind of trouble we could get into… Comments (3) July 18, 2008 Catch me on Couch Cast today at 12:00 MDT Filed under: Random Stuff — Ted Haeger @ 9:00 am  The team at Couch Cast have invited me to talk about Bungee Connect on Couch Cast today. Check out the link for details, and join the discussion if you can. Comments (0) July 9, 2008 Heading to OSCON 2008 Filed under: Random Stuff — Ted Haeger @ 8:19 am  I’ll be coming to OSCON 2008, in Portland, Oregon (or thereabouts…turns out it’s in Beaverton).This will be my first time at OSCON, which is kind of odd, since I present or attend so many OSS conferences.Anyway, if you’re going to be there, and would like to catch up over some fries, drop me a line. (Man, I’m hungry!) Comments (1) June 30, 2008 A Summer of Taunting Interns Filed under: Random Stuff — Ted Haeger @ 9:00 am Interns Are Fun.Here at Bungee Labs world headquarters, we have 8 interns working this summer. 2 work on my team. The others work in different parts of the company. We keep them well fed, meaningfully employed, comfortably housed, and in shape. (In shape, because we provided them bicycles for the 3 mile journey to and from work. They have no idea what they’re in for come the triple-digit-degree days of July.) While the crew gets a lot done (they’re all high achievers, scholastically, and they’re applying the same diligence here at Bungee Labs), I enjoy their presence here for reasons other than their fine contributions.Maybe it’s the enthusiasm with which they approach their work. Perhaps it’s their uncertainty about the workplace formalities of the “real world.” Perhaps its because I am in management, and they naturally look to managers as role models. Such naivite. For me it’s like having a bunch of slightly-younger siblings. I find the urge to psychologically mess with them irresistible.I just hope that the example I set helps them to always look at work as something far too important to be taken seriously. Comments (1) June 27, 2008 eWeek: “Bungee Takes On Salesforce.com, Google in PAAS” Filed under: Random Stuff — Ted Haeger @ 11:34 am Cool coverage for Bungee Labs here. Comments (0) June 25, 2008 Salesforce.com: A New Microsoft? Filed under: Advocacy, Bungee Connect, Linux/OSS — Tags: cloud, CRM, customer relationship management, free software, microsoft, monopoly, open source, open source software, oss, paas, SaaS, salesforce, salesforce.com, software — Ted Haeger @ 8:25 am  Salesforce.com’s rapid rise to success has been the subject of much debate and speculation. Is Salesforce.com a complete anomaly, a lone black swan in a software market that remains steadfast in its traditional delivery model? In what other market category than Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has Software-as-a-Service been so wildly successful?CRM seems an obvious choice for business success in Software as a Service (SaaS). Salesforce.com solidly meets a market need that is crisply defined, enabling companies to eschew the need to host their own CRM applications. I suspect that there is little need for me to explain why the “No Software” value proposition appeals to so many small and mid-sized businesses.While watching CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference at San Francisco’s Moscone center last fall, I looked back over my shoulder at a vast crowd of thousands who seemed to hang on Benioff’s every word. Salesforce.com has developed what so all technology marketers should covet: a cult following. They have won the SaaS lottery in a huge way.Salesforce.com’s success does more than merely demonstrate that the SaaS model works for CRM. With their first major success in SaaS already well established, they are well poised to control a significant portion of the growing SaaS market, which goes well beyond CRM. Benioff’s speech was accordingly bullish about this proposition.A while back, I discussed how the ability to increment features will continually be one of the ways that SaaS asserts its power against both the purchase-and-install model of traditional software, or the download-and-use model of free/open source software. Big companies now have the SaaS/CRM space in their sites: Microsoft with Dynamics, Oracle with Orace CRM On Demand. Will these giants be able to carve into Salesforce’s dominance enough to unseat its leadership? If Salesforce.com keeps its market focus, perhaps they can outpace the new entrants by applying the feature crank-up that their SaaS leadership provides them.At the same time, Salesforce may be seeking to become to SaaS what its two major assailants are to their own market spaces. Now firmly established as the in-the-cloud CRM platform—and supported by an increasingly sophisticated set of web APIs—is it possible that Salesforce.com has achieved the market power to stifle aspiring SaaS startups from attaining similar success in other markets beside CRM? That is, could they become (or are they already becoming) the Microsoft of SaaS?Indeed, Benioff declared from the Dreamforce main stage that Salseforce.com now looks to enter into many new SaaS market spaces as to lay the groundwork for the new Force.com to eclipse Salesforce.com itself. The name implies a lot: it sets them up to break free from the CRM cocoon, and emerge something much broader.As I listened, it occurred to me that any company wanting to win big in a potential SaaS market space would now be required to outmaneuver the emerging Force.com (as well as the entrepreneurs using force.com as a platform). Whether by leveraging it or by out-innovating it, aspiring SaaS entrepreneurs must now consider how Force.com factors into their business plans.Here is where the rapid pace of innovation through collective collaboration touted by Free Software meets firm competition. The time-to-market advantage gained by using a cloud-based platform is considerable: while roll-your-own start-ups stitch together their data centers, LAMP stacks, etc., those companies that choose to launch from a cloud-based platforms will be delivering actual products. A reasonably priced, readily available platform offers much to the entrepreneur.By introducing Force.com, Salesforce.com reveals aspirations that some readers might find unsettling. How much will force.com affect and influence innovation in SaaS? What constraints might force.com put upon Freedom—both software freedom and market freedom? To date, Salesforce.com things to get right in their development and pricing models, and they have yet to break out from the “mainly for CRM” association that most people make. Nevertheless, the potential of Salesforce.com becoming an industry monolith raises concern about openness in hosted platforms.NotesAs I have noted in several earlier posts, the platform in which I am involved, Bungee Connect, is still a proprietary offering using its own language. I believe Bungee Connect must move toward more openness to become a broadly accepted technology, free from the threat of monopolizing the SaaS platform market.Nevertheless, even as a proprietary offering, I would assert that Bungee Connect is well-suited as an alternative to force.com for delivering SaaS applications. Yes, the pricing model beats out force.com, But more importantly to the goal of openness, the development model allows developers to create applications that are independent from the company providing it (for example, you own your own user registration, completely independent from that of Bungee Labs).UpdatesJune 27, 2008: Salesforce Times picked up this post, somehow gleaning a positive from my comment about outmaneuvering Force.com. Comments (2) June 20, 2008 Hanging Out with the Other Geeks Filed under: Random Stuff — Tags: critical thinking, James Randi, jref, Neil deGrasse Tyson, science, skepticism, tam6 — Ted Haeger @ 2:18 pm  Once a year, I head off to the Amazing Meeting to hang out with a different set of geeks from my usual geek crowd of OSS fanatics and web-heads.This year, the keynote speaker was the amazingly eloquent host of Nova Science Now and director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Comments (1) June 19, 2008 Thoughts from eBay Dev Con Filed under: Novell — Tags: ebay, ebay devcon, web apis — Ted Haeger @ 7:28 am  Over the past few years, demand for APIs into web-hosted services has increased enormously. Fewer and fewer big, web-based companies can resist the market imperative to provide API access into the services they offer. The number of APIs tracked by Programmable Web—from companies large and small—continues to grow.Here are some stats to chew on, direct from the eBay Dev Con keynotes on Monday:Total active users on eBay: 84,000,000Developers in eBay Developer Network: 70,000Developers employed by eBay: ~2,000Number of applications using eBay platform: 12,000Frequency of listing updates on eBay: 500 per secondTransaction volume on eBay: $2,000 per secondNumber of people who make some or all of their income through eBay: 1.3 millionAmount earned by eBay’s top 10 affiliates through listings last year: $20,000,000 (yes, that’s averaging $2 million each)What I found particularly interesting is the marketplace for developers. If you’re a developer looking to make money by developing to the eBay platform, the primary target market is not getting items to buyers. Rather, it’s providing the right tools to sellers. Independent developers and smaller development firms have provided everything from tools to get listings up faster, to tools to analyze data and optimize selling techniques.In general, for the Amazon.coms and eBays of the world, providing web APIs supplements revenue—often from channels previously inaccessible via their main web storefronts. By opening APIs, these companies found that independent developers would willingly augment their platforms in numerous, innovative ways in order to exploit opportunities either too small for the companies to pursue themselves. Consequently, the APIs of these companies have created new opportunities for small shops and independent developers, benefitting both themselves and the API providers. By opening up APIs into their platform, eBay has increased its own success.What I’m saying in general is: expect this trend of increasing data access through web APsI to continue. The model works. Comments (0) June 16, 2008 Congratulations on openSUSE 11.0 Filed under: Novell — Ted Haeger @ 6:38 am  I still love the work of my old comrades at SUSE, Novell and in the openSUSE community. openSUSE 10.3 was by far the most polished and solid SUSE Linux that I have ever used, and though distro preferences are often much like personal tastes, I still have to say that to me, SUSE makes the most user-friendly distro I have used.openSUSE version 11.0 comes out on June 19, just a couple days from now, and I am eagerly anticipating its release. A bunch of people I know and admire, some of them good friends, worked long and hard to make it happen. Congratulations to the team for your perseverence, dedication, and contributions. Comments (2) June 8, 2008 Say No to “the Clowd” Filed under: Bungee Connect, Random Stuff — Ted Haeger @ 8:51 pm I’m a regular reader of Seth Godin’s blog, and I have read several of his books. I’m a fan.However, this term he attempts to coin in his latest post–the Clowd–an amalgam of “crowd” and “cloud”–just doesn’t work.Yes, Mr. Godin, I’m involved in the cloud and the crowd. But…for the love of all that is holy…let’s not foist bad homonyms upon either. Comments (1) May 16, 2008 Is AGPLv3 Too Radioactive? Filed under: Advocacy, Bungee Connect, Linux/OSS — Ted Haeger @ 8:51 am Continuing the thread with Simon Wardley, I want to lay out a couple thoughts that Simon’s reply has prompted me to finally put into writing. This is two of two.In Simon’s reply to my comments, he states:However ‘Affero’ enforced that changes are to be released back and this could possibly discourage use. It could also discourage companies creating operational improvements to the system, i.e. keeping to the primitives of the platform but improving the code efficiency.Indeed. AGPLv3 eliminates the |
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