Last Wednesdays of every month are a great opportunity for a get together with entrepreneurs and software developers of Montreal and beyond. Startup Drinks took place at Brutopia, which is the premiere brewpub in downtown Montreal, located on Crescent Street, were you can find all sorts of irish pubs and international restaurants. 

If the folks at Oracle play it smart, they could take advantage of the Sun acquisition to put together a serious Open Source portfolio and coherent strategy.  This would help them protect their existing customer base, expand their market reach and make them a lot of money.  Who knows, it might even help them improve their image with the tech community.

I am not sure if this is good news or bad but recent rulings show that courts are increasingly more willing to uphold Open Source licenses.  People who have taken them seriously have suffered the consequences.

Recently, we found ourselves in a familiar situation where we needed to have a consumer-facing website up and running in no time. We got together with the client to evaluate the options and after talking about several options, somebody asked "and what about Joomla!?"