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- Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance
- Leading up to the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...
- Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
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- The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers
- The greatest advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. The biggest problem with the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. Ironic, isn't it? The sheer number of choices means you can almost certainly...
- Tags: Problem, Driver, OEM, Graphics Subsystem, Vista/Server 2008/Win7 Ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Is Cisco vulnerable to open source?
- Is Cisco vulnerable to open source?What not to love about Cisco routers as Linux app servers[i]"Paper...get your paper, extry, extry, read all about it"[/i][url=http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26986]FYI[/url]They're close.They'll certainly fulfill the needs of a large chunk of the market, although I'm not getting that they support RIPv2 and cHDLC but not EIGRP. Is...
- Tags: open source, Cisco Systems Inc., EIGRP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- A conversation with Charles Phillips, president Oracle
- This morning I participated in a round table conversation with Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, discussing his take on Enterprise 2.0 technologies and how they apply to Oracle's view of the enterprise applications space. While there was nothing earth shatteringly new in what he said, some nuggets emerged. ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- SaaSplaza opens European SaaS marketplace
- Europe's first pureplay SaaS hosting venture opened its doors last month with a roster of 50 vendors and integration partners on board and an estimated 1 million end user subscribers. Based in the Netherlands but with a Europe-wide reach, SaaSplaza projects its platform will generate more than €100 million (around...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Corp., SaaSplaza, Siennax, SaaSplaza Venture, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun
- Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from SunYou've got things mixed upMary,You clearly do not understand the Rich internet Applications space very well ...there a lot of mistakes in the article that i have to correct ...[b]"Sun is building on top of JavaFX"[/b]The more appropriate word here would...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaFX, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- JavaFX's day in the Sun
- Dan Farber has some information about JavaFX from the JavaOne keynote today. It sounds like it wasn't a great day for demos but that we're starting to get a better picture of JavaFX and what the plans are. Michael Coté has some additional information about Sun's plans around Java as...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Internet Application, JavaOne, JavaFX, Dan Farber, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools
- Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing. And many of those bad reviews were absolutely accurate. My...
- Tags: Performance, PC, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, CPU, Tool, Dialog Box, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance Management, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Oracle architect says there ought to be one Linux distribution: Red Hat
- Oracle architect says there ought to be one Linux distribution: Red HatThanks, but no.I use KDE, I don't like Gnome (and yes, it is simply what I have been using since 1999, so familiarity is what I like). With RedHat 8.0, KDE became an afterthought, and I prefer a...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, distro, KDE, Red Hat Inc., GNOME, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- ePals provides safe student collaboration tools
- Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with Ed Fish, CEO of ePals Corporation. I first heard about ePals through Intel, who recently announced that they would provide hooks to ePals' services on their Classmate PCs. While it's easy to describe ePals as "the world's largest social network...
- Tags: Collaboration, Mr., Collaboration Tool, Classroom, Teacher, Tool, ePals, Productivity, Social Networking, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?
- You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. That seems to be the mantra of Ubuntu and Sun, both open source underdogs whose relationship and mutual platform support has been growing for three years. On the eve of the release of OpenSolaris, both companies are banging the drum that the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary software
- George Ou pointed me in the direction of Stallman's comments relating to Windows on the OLPC project, though I did nothing about it because my head was figuratively on fire. I then saw Christopher Dawson's response to Stallman's comments, and so I figured that I'd throw my two cents in...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, Stallman, Tools & Techniques, Management, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Will iTunes new DVD distribution schedule be enough to boost Apple TV?
- Will iTunes new DVD distribution schedule be enough to boost Apple TV?Love my AppleTV!The movie selection is improving rapidly, which should help a lot. I think ATV is sort of a "sleeper" that could blossom into something significant for Apple.One of my favorite uses for ATV is looking at photos...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, TVs, Digital music, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, movie selection, TV, DVD, Apple Inc., ATV, Apple iTunes, Apple TV
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Psystar's Open Computer review: Is it worth it?
- There are a few things you need to know before hopping on the Psystar Mac clone bandwagon: You can't download a software update, which means patching is impossible. You'll never be a card-carrying member of the Apple ecosystem. And the hardware doesn't come close to the designs Apple offers. Those...
- Tags: Software, Apple Inc., Computer, Psystar, Software Update, Tools & Techniques, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Canada caught on its own tar baby. Tar sand investments now a dead duck?
- As one Canadian newspaper put it. Ducks in Alberta died a crude death. One of the species of ducks that died on a pond filled with crude oil polluted water: Bufflehead. Here's a picture of a gorgeous male Bufflehead in fine fettle. ...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Adobe Open Screen Project
- Adobe is making a couple of big announcements today that relate to our openness and the openness of the Flash Player. Starting today, there will be no restrictions on the use of the SWF specification or the FLV and F4V specifications that make up video in Flash. Previously, in order...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Specification, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- CNBC: SAP America's president should offer media training
- During an interview on CNBC, SAP's CEO Bill McDermott, said customers buy his software to accomplish three goals: Making money Cost reductions Maintaining compliance In a moment of what some might consider to be irrational exuberance, McDermott described SAP as the only...
- Tags: CNBC, Media Training, SAP AG, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- iPhone 3G: Release the rumors!
- iPhone 3G: Release the rumors!Not consistent......with Apple's market or policies. Subsidizing and thus devalueing the iPhone is not what Apple wants. It WANTS the iPhone to be expensive because that is the market it caters to. I think Apple wants the iPhone to be competitive. The...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3G
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Delivery of Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager beta adds credibility to virtual story
- On April 16, 2006, I wrote in another unnnamed tech pub about Microsoft's plans for a virtual machine management platform , then code-named "Carmine," which was being designed for Microsoft's much touted virtulization hypervisor under development, then code named "Viridian." These product promises were downright ethereal at a time when market leader VMware was printing...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Beta, Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, prooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- EXCLUSIVE: CODA2go on force.com
- Today in an exclusive preview, I saw CODA2go's first iteration. CODA2go is accounting software developer CODA's first foray at an on-demand accounting application service built on the force.com platform. CODA claims it is the largest development of its type on force.com. According to...
- Tags: Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
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