Cloud Computing and Commercial Risk
Most discussions I encounter on Cloud services or SaaS are about the products or technology. Can I suggest he primary issue is not the technology. It’s the commercial arrangements. Have you been involved in negotiating contracts with Cloud/SaaS providers? How are you addressing commercial risk? Have you attempted to include things like liquidated damages in … Read more
Virtualisation and Business Value
Several big virtualisation vendors (or their business parters) are contacting me to sell their wares. They have come from just about every angle, Green IT, cost, ease of use, scalability, supportability and the list goes on. Recently one vendor invited me to use their own online calculator to estimate the cost savings using their virtualisation … Read more
Ruling on evidence of website visits in libel cases
Interesting article from Inam Ali at lawdit.co.uk last year. I was talking to a few lawyers recently who felt the litigation over information published on social media sites was increasing. Regardless of the burden of proof issues it does highlight the need for care in public communications. A seemingly innocuous post can have unintended consequences … Read more
Been a while..
I suspect one or two people will remember me from my time driving the Oracle PHP strategy c.2003-2006 and I even made a few blog entries in those days over on http://richardrendell.blogspot.com/ which I am not using anymore. In 2007 after 18 years, I moved on from Oracle and pursued a few business opportunities of … Read more
A great night at the OTN installfest for Linux and PHP. Todd Trichler took everyone through a 10g database install on Red Hat and Suse followed by the kernel team doing OCFS2 and ASMlib installs. Note that OCFS2 is a general purpose filesystem you can use like ext3 – more info is available on oss.oracle.com … Read more
Oracle Openworld – Day 1With so many people at OOW the keynotes are being video broadcast in other rooms – I’m in room 104 right now watching the Intel part of the keynote. There are about 1,000 people in the foyer of Mosone North watching a video screen there. Many are sitting on the floor … Read more
After OSCON waiting for a flight the next day… I was reading the Oregonian newspaper and came across a list of dumb things people have said and done during job intereviews, the paper said these were sourced from the internet – I wrote them out, I just had to share with my friends, hope you … Read more
I thoroughly enjoyed the OSCON conference in Portland Oregon last week. As a first time attendee and representing Oracle as a sponsor I was very glad to have been part of this event. Todd Trichler, Chris Jones and myself were expecting to talk about Oracle’s ongoing activities around PHP and helping those who are developing … Read more
