Articles by Kimberly McClintock
Kimberly McClintock
Kimberly is absolutely fabulous, in every way. Before striking out on her own to pursue a career in writing, she led the technical writing team at OpenLogic that's responsible for all technical content on the OLEX site, as well as the the selection, editing, coordination, and management of content here at Wazi. She's developed content for lots of different audiences - teachers and students and salespeople, to name a few - over the course of her career, but nothing's been as much fun as writing about Open Source. She's a heckuva cook, has an enormously varied vocabulary, and you might justifiably be fearful of her dog, a big girl named Lola.
Use this comparison matrix to learn about the differences between – and relative benefits of – the popular open source databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, Derby and H2 Database Engine (H2DB).
No kidding, we’ve boiled it down to six – Six Elements of Open Source Governance laid out and discussed right here. Everything you need to know in a few thousand printable, portable, highlightable words about open source policies, managing inventory, provisioning, scanning, reporting, and more.
We’ve developed this comparison matrix to help you learn about the differences between – and relative benefits of – the most popular open source Web frameworks: Shale, Struts, Wicket, WebWork, Rails, JBossSeam, MyFaces and Spring. Although Rails is not a Java project, we included it given its popularity. To help you make a decision about which Web Framework to use, we went to the experts — members of the OpenLogic Expert Community who are committers and expert users of the projects — and asked them to answer a bunch of questions about each project.
The following tables represent research completed in the fall of 2007 by OpenLogic. We went to the experts — members of the OpenLogic Expert Community who are committers and expert users of the projects — and asked them to answer a set of questions. Members of Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty and GlassFish responded. Use the resulting information as a tool to plan your projects.
Figuring out the licensing terms of the open source gadget you’d like to use in in the widget you’re prototyping (and hope to offer for sale next quarter) is not as difficult as, say, absorbing the details of evolutionary biology, but neither is it a guaranteed walk in the park. In other words, it’s not dreadfully difficult, but often…
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