links for 2007-02-17

• A reminder of first principles for community building
  You need a good community (based on good code) to get a good open source project
  (tags: opensource community)
• James Governor’s Monkchips » Nice RedMonk Interview by Livemink: About Open Business
  Nice interview with RedMonk team
  (tags: RedMonk)
• Red Hat: Customers Not Using Oracle as Bargaining Chip - SeekingAlpha
  Red Hat appears to be seeing more competition from Novell (via the MSFT/Novell coupons) than from Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux
  (tags: RedHat)
• Server Power Consumption Doubled Over Past 5 years
  1.2% of US power consumption is quite a lot to keep servers running. The flip side is that this study (http://www.witsa.org/press/dp2000pr.pdf) found IT spending representing 9% of the 2000 US GDP.
  (tags: energy environment)