SD Times Issue 284

2012·13.6 MB·English

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Putting a
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Contents
ISSUE 284 • DECEMBER 2012
FROM THE EDITORS SPECIAL REPORT
8 So GNU, Richard Stallman? Putting a shine on ASP.NET
8 Operating systems without pity
11 Letters
NEWS
12 Intel implements 60 cores for GPU computing
17 Software quality the main course of QCon
18 2013: The year of the browser-based IDE
20 Free Software Foundation crashes page 30
Microsoft’s Windows 8 launch
FEATURES
22 Building in the cloud is catching on
24 DevOps comes around to XebiaLabs Scaling agile isn’t such a stretch
26 Compuware APM for Mainframe helps IT
29 Kendo UI now offers JSP server wrappers
COLUMNS
57 CODE WATCHby Larry O’Brien
The static typing example
page 38
58 ANALYST VIEWby Jeffrey S. Hammond
For mobile apps, ratings do count
Kanban: Connecting the
61 GUEST VIEWby Vu Lam The why and when world with APIs
Crowdsourced testing: Seriously useful
62 INDUSTRY WATCHby David Rubinstein
Big Data offers big opportunities
page 47 page 50
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OPINION
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FFRROOMM TTHHEE EEDDIITTOORRSS
So GNU, Richard Stallman?
The Free Software Foundation has purchase is more feature-rich and often no Greenpeace.” We applaud your zeal
taken its assault on proprietary tightly integrated with a suite of prod- in pushing for software that allows you
software to Microsoft, as the group ucts, and comes with on-demand serv- to see the code, to modify it, and to
seeks to spread its word that any soft- ice and support (not posting to a com- return those changes to the community,
ware that is not free (as in any way you munity and hoping for a timely for the betterment of all. But this is not
can define free) is a vile affront on the response from someone who actually akin to CFCs destroying the ozone lay-
computing world. knows the answer). In other cases, the er, or the slaughter of whales. A guy in
As reported in this issue by Suzanne software you purchase is the only alter- a gnu suit is not the Rainbow Warrior.
Kattau, in “Free Software Foundation native. And in still other cases, even The proprietary software vs. open
crashes Microsoft’s Windows 8 launch” when a free variety of the software is source argument is what is driving
(p. 20), the FSF was at the Windows 8 available, it might not be very good. much innovation today. People buy
launch distributing versions of the Lin- This is not to knock free software, software and realize it might not have a
ux operating system (actually, what it which has grown in the enterprise in capability they need or desire, so they
likes to call the GNU Operating Sys- ways not even imagined in the late create it on their own and start a com-
tem) to anyone who would renounce 1990s, when the only folks interested in munity around it. Then, when it
Microsoft. It is the first strike of what open source were hackers and the matures, a software company commer-
the FSF said would be a long campaign un(der)employed. These projects have cializes it, and the cycle goes round and
to combat proprietary software. This made great strides over the last decade round.
campaign apparently requires inserting and give organizations great options for We agree that advocating for free
humans inside gnu costumes. their software portfolios. Beyond the software is important work. But the
We’re afraid it will take more than biggies, like Linux or Firefox or the FSF should get off its high gnu—er,
putting someone in a funky wildebeest- Apache Web server, there are many horse and accept that there are multi-
inspired suit to get consumers and busi- great free applications available. ple approaches to how people want to
ness customers to give up not-free soft- As for the FSF, all we can say is, “We work. Let’s embrace our differences,
ware. In many cases, software you knew Greenpeace, and you, folks, are rather than exacerbate them. z
Operating systems without pity
Between the high-profile departures ing toward merging the style, behavior forms signals the death of the desktop,
of Steven Sinofsky from Microsoft and feel of its phone, tablet and desk- not the beginning of some new home
and Scott Forstall from Apple, you top operating systems. (The same is computer Windows revolution.
could be forgiven for thinking these two true, of course, of Google’s Android Remember Windows 95? People
old-world operating system companies world, although there’s no desktop standing in line at midnight? That’s so...
are having some problems. But it’s real- equivalent yet. It’s only a matter of well... 1995. We didn’t see that with
ly the other way around. Instead of the time before we see something like a Windows 8, and for good reason. In
companies having problems, we’re Google Nexus laptop or a Samsung today’s reality, the name of the operat-
pretty sure it’s the employees who are Galaxy notebook.) ing system game is removing features,
having the issues. The release of Win- In a world where the very limited not adding them, as anyone who’s tried
dows 8 is a landmark moment for oper- and small are defining the goals for the out Mac OS 10.7 and beyond can tell
ating systems. If nothing else, it should very large and powerful, we simply can- you. Simplification. That’s the ticket.
be seen as the first true warning bell of not expect our future to be filled with These top-level departures from
a future based on handheld devices, backward compatibility, legacy support Apple and Microsoft are not symbolic
namely phones and tablets. or robust features. The technologies of of internal strife or of failed project
You see, Apple has already stated the 1990s and 2000s are reaching their efforts. Rather, they are a changing of
that it wants to bring iOS and Mac OS end-of-life, whether we like it or not. the guard as the very market for operat-
closer together. Microsoft is also mov- Indeed, the merging of these plat- ing systems itself changes once again. z
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