Our patches for 5.0 have attracted significant interest. You can read about SecondLife’s experience here, as well as what Flickr had to say on their blog. The main improvements come in both performance gains and improvements to diagnostics (such as the improvements to the slow log output, and INDEX_STATISTICS). Despite having many requests to port [...]
Open Development vs Making a Big Splash
I find it very interesting how Sun does not get the very basic principle of true community Open Source development – you’ve got to give up on making a big splash. Traditional close source company often develop product in the secret and when it comes out as a surprise for computers and making a big [...]

