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.

Over the course of last year the OSS wiki that I created together with BackendMedia has seen a lot of additions. Its based on Yawiki. The main features I have added are:

I was talking to a friend at a party (I know it sounds pathetic, but we also talked about non work related stuff) about a java banking application he is working on. The application needs to run with whatever RDBMS is already installed at the client. He noted that they have the most trouble with IBM DB2. He did speak favorably about Apache Derby aka IBM cloudspace, but then again he actually likes java, so go figure ;-)