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Getting Licensing Right

A challenge that many software organizations face is how to license your software, and the corresponding controls to make sure it is not abused. The vendor wants a solution that protects their product and gives them multiple ways to sell it. Users want something that just works and doesn’t interfere with up-time or reliability of … Read more

Scheduler Goals

As software professionals, we need our job schedulers to be reliable, easy to use and transparent. When it comes to job schedulers, transparent means letting us know what is going on. We want to have available to us information such as when was the job scheduled to run, when did it start, when did it … Read more

The Problems With Schedulers

Job scheduling is a common need in business software environments. The first thing that likely comes to mind is cron. While cron is a very useful tool, it fails to provide for even basic business needs including logging, history and monitoring and availability (beyond the availability of the host it runs on). Open source tools … Read more