links for 2007-12-18

Rise or fall for Red Hat? | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET Blogs

Savio’s right: the comments on this one are interesting, as it’s Matt’s read on the state of RHAT.

(tags: saviorodrigues mattasay opensource redhat jboss financials downgrade)
Photo Matt » Web Apps with Class

“It would be interesting to talk about web applications and services in terms of the year they ‘graduated’ and went public to the world.” – excellent way of looking at things

(tags: mattmullenweg webapplications graduatingclass history)
The psychic burden of online registration « Jon Udell

“Is it just me, or is the psychic burden of online registration reaching epic proportions?” – it’s not you

(tags: registration barriers-to-entry jonudell)