I was very happy to hear when Zend announced that they would join the Eclipse Foundation to facilitate the development of a core infrastructure for an open source PHP IDE. I have used Zend Studio to get around some of the limitations of my primary development environment Weaverslave. So I have high hopes for this open source effort. I just finished downloading and installing the preview though its too early to really comment on the experience.

I am currently writing my thesis paper so that I can finally get out of the university. I am writing about open source and the effects on the relational database software market. Actually I am currently researching the topic to get a better idea of what exactly I want to write on. The current plan is to finish my exposé sometime in April and finishing this entire thing by the end of this summer.

Hope everybody else is doing great as well. Its a bumpy ride, but somehow well worth it .. the thing called life.

Well I am very happy to announce that LiveUser and LiveUser_Admin are now very well documented. Not completely yet .. but sufficiently to get anyone going to a very advanced level. Better yet, Dominique is still constantly adding new stuff.

The topic at hand is Oracle buying one dual license open source company after another. This is getting a lot of people worried. Of course it also got me thinking.