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What the Open Source Barometer tells us

by on November 12, 2008 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

Alfresco, a company that publishes a open source ECM, does also feature a Open Source Barometer over at http://www.opensourcebarometer.org. According to their own saying; “The Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey is the largest open source enterprise infrastructure/stack survey. The third global survey covers data provided by over 25,000 of Alfresco’s 74,000 community members during the period of April to September 2008. “.

Since the Barometer shows us a door into the Enterprise open source usage what can we learn from it?

For Operating System we see that RedHat and Ubuntu are the clear leaders for Linux deployment. Look at how much Ubuntu has caught up. Ubuntu is not as long in the business as RedHat and I hear a lot of people taking on the Ubuntu Server. Looks like RedHat has to be on the look out. A obvious thing is that most will develop and test on Windows, but will deploy on Linux.

We see that Tomcat is still the most used Application Server, as it is our choice of server with Razuna, our very own open source Digital Asset Management, with over 67% compared to JBoss with 17%. The choice of database is with most the famous MySQL, followed by Oracle.

Thought that with the recent 10 million download for OpenOffice we see that MS Office is still the most used business application and despite the growing numbers of XEN marketing VMware is still the choice for most businesses to deploy Virtualization on.

One thing that really stood out for me is that Open Source is really at the “Long Tail”, that most businesses will go with a mixed stack (Open Source and proprietary software) and that Microsoft will have a impact on the Enterprise world and the Open Source community with their aggressive partnership. One thing I can tell from my own experience at a recent BizSpark introduction event is that MS will make inroads with a lot of businesses and startups.

A big thing for RIA and Adobe Flex is that 24% of the 25000 questioned community members take to Flex, that is second after 52% on Ajax and way ahead of the 8% of MS Silverlight.

Open Source Barometer III (Nov08)

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Adobe engages in Open Source

by on February 25, 2008 in Uncategorized

In case you have not seen the announcements in the past, Adobe engages also in Open Source activities. Head over to http://opensource.adobe.com/ to check out what they have to over.

Especially in the light of today’s Flex 3 announcement it is important to note that Adobe also releases the Flex 3 SDK under 2 different licenses.

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Flex 3.0 and Air 1.0 released today

by on February 25, 2008 in CFML

Ok, we are probably the last ones that blog about it, but never the less it is worth to note that Adobe released Flex 3.0 and AIR 1.0.

In the words of Adobe Flex is; “Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.” and to AIR they state that; “Adobe AIR offers an exciting new way to engage customers with innovative, branded desktop applications, without requiring changes to existing technology, people, or processes.”.

In the end it means that Adobe got the killer suite; ColdFusion as the data engine, Flex as the RIA tool and AIR for bringing the whole web application down to the desktop level. Pretty sweet. Now is the best time to turn to Adobe for all your development needs.

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Configure the JDBC driver for Oracle on ColdFusion 8 Standard Edition

by on January 25, 2008 in CFML, Oracle

We have had a lot of people asking us if they could use the Oracle database with their ColdFusion Standard Edition. Of course, Adobe would prefer to sell you the Enterprise Edition for using Oracle, but fortunately ColdFusion is based on Java and thus we can use the free and existing Oracle JDBC Driver.

Note: If you do go with the Oracle JDBC “Thin Client” option you will NOT be able to return result sets from stored procedures. So, if you depend upon PL/SQL stored procedures for returning queries, then you will be out of luck without the ColdFusion Enterprise Edition. On the other hand one could also buy the same JDBC drivers as Adobe is using from DataDirect.

Now, before you will be able to use the JDBC Driver you will need to download the appropriate JDBC Oracle Driver. Make sure, that you download the correct driver for the correct version of your database. They are not all the same! Also, download the “ojdbc14.jar” file, since this is for the JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5.

Grab the “ojdbc14.jar” file and copy/move it to “ColdFusion8/wwwroot/WEB-INF/lib”. Once done, you will need to restart the ColdFusion Server.

Go the the ColdFusion Administration and go to your “data sources”. Add a new “data source” and choose “Other” from the Database driver options.

On the following page enter “jdbc:oracle:thin:@10.10.10.11:1521:ORCL” in the “JDBC URL” Textarea. In the “Driver Class” textfield enter “oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver”. Of course, enter your username and password. Once done you should connect to your Oracle database without fail.

Here is a screenshot to visualize the above.

ColdFusion Administrator.png

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