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Is Java Becoming Irrelevant?
Update #1: To clear up any confusion, this article is focused on the business value of Java - it’s ability to control and generate revenue - not it’s value as a language or a technology. So the word “irrelevant” is applied to it’s business value, not if it’s a good technology or not. Sun Microsystems announced [...]
Continue reading...RedHat Pushes Up Sun Schedule, Java Fragmentation Begins
Monday, June 23, 2008
If you didn’t see it, RedHat announced earlier this week that their completely Open Source Java implementation (IcedTea) had finally passed the Java Test Compatability Kit (TCK). While most folks rejoiced, I think there were a fair number of us that sighed and thought: Goddamnit, here’s the beginning of the Java fragmentation. Or if that not, were [...]
Continue reading...Sun to Begin Closing up MySQL Source Code
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Uh-oh, Spaghettio’s! Looks like Sun is going to start closing up some of the open source portions of MySQL, namely the more advanced functionality and the backup solutions that are currently open sourced. Can you blame them? They paid a goddamn billion for MySQL, it’s not too surprising that they want to create some value-add [...]
Continue reading...Google Trumps Sun’s Mobile Java Play
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Greg Amerson sent along two very interesting reads (One, Two) about what the Google Android platform means to Sun and the OpenJDK. At first glance Android looks like a harmlessly cool, Java-based mobile platform… so what’s the big deal? At closer glance it appears that Google has invented their own Java VM, the Dalvik VM to [...]
Continue reading...Sun Rewrites Java Plugin
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Grant Gochnauer sent in this kick-ass news; looks like Sun has completely rewritten the Java Browser Plugin as part of the new Consumer JRE work (now called Update N or something). The changes include: Improved scripting support (java/javascript integration is better) Improved reliability Supports more powerful applets (applets can ask for more memory) Better windows vista support (signed applets) Enterprise features [...]
Continue reading...Sun Interview on Consumer JRE
Thursday, June 14, 2007
I know the Consumer JRE has been talked to death , but I’ve been sitting and listening to the interview by ITConversations with Chet Haase and Ben (Galbraith, I didn’t see his last name given but I’m assuming who that was) and thought it was an excellent interview. Besides all the features coming [...]
Continue reading...Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) using ZFS
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
This is very slick news… looks like Sun’s drool-worthy ZFS file-system is going to become the default for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). I know very little about ZFS, but the bits I’ve read about it are impressive to say the least… more like “How does it do that?!”. It’s an extremely slick file system, and [...]
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
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