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.

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: