Author: Greg Luck

As Terracotta’s CTO, Greg (@gregrluck) is entrusted with understanding market and technology forces and the business drivers that impact Terracotta’s product innovation and customer success. He helps shape company and technology strategy and designs many of the features in Terracotta’s products. Greg came to Terracotta on the acquisition of the popular caching project Ehcache which he founded in 2003.

Prior to joining Terracotta, Greg served as Chief Architect at Australian online travel giant Wotif.com. He also served as a lead consultant for ThoughtWorks on accounts in the United States and Australia, was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts and spent seven years as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG’s small business and insolvency divisions.

He is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor of articles to the technical press.

Alpine Car Stereo + Ipod

Regular readers of my blog might be surprised to learn that I have been running an Apple PowerMac as my primary home desktop for the past two and a half years. I like the digital hub strategy. My wife found the Mac slightly easier to use than our previous machine, a Linux box. (I run… Continue reading Alpine Car Stereo + Ipod

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OSDL Conference Key Thoughts: Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, Mitch Kapor, Brian Behlendorf

On Security Brian Behlendorf thinks that computer systems are going to be understood in far more biological terms in the future. We talk about viruses and anti-viruses. How about vaccines? He points out that many viruses and worms are not harmful but they could be. In this way they are like vaccines, where an infectious… Continue reading OSDL Conference Key Thoughts: Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, Mitch Kapor, Brian Behlendorf

MSN Test Drive: “java sucks” vs “.net sucks”

The first question on my mind about MSN’s new search engine is whether it provides an unbiased view of the Internet. Judge for yourself “java sucks” Google: 410,000 MSN: 846,373 “.net sucks” Google: 3,000,000 MSN: 245,041

Report from Day One of the OSDL Linux Enterprise Summit

I am attending the OSDL Linux Enterprise Summit in Burlingame, just south of San Francisco. Interestingly a good proportion of the attendees are corporte lawyers. The focus right now is on getting the law right to avoid future difficulties. Following are some highlights from day one. Open Source Licensing, Larry Rosen Used to be mainly… Continue reading Report from Day One of the OSDL Linux Enterprise Summit

6 Kg of Vegemite

For those of you (the whole world outside Australia) who have not discovered the joy of Vegemite, click [here](http://www.vegemite.com.au/). We worked out our consumption was 500 grams per month; therefore we need 6 KG to last the year. Fortunately, the supersize jar of Vegemite is 1 KG, so we only need 6 jars.