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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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OS execs split over fate of MySQL under Oracle's grip

  The fate of Sun's open source jewels -- especially MySQL -- has been heavily debated since Oracle announced its intentions to buy the Java giant earlier this week.  Few expect the Redwood Shores, Calif. database giant to mess with Java. It is a...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Operating System, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-04-24

Windows Azure is much more important than Windows 7

Windows Azure is much more important than Windows 7In the next 12 months . . .WM7 is way more important than Azure and W7 combined. M$ has to right this sinking WM ship. Apple is eating their lunch, and now Google has entered the fray with their very compelling G1...

Tags: Operating systems, enterprise market, Microsoft Corp., Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, WM7

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

OSUM portal from Sun

Yes, that acronym is pronounced "Awesome." Cheesy acronyms aside, the Open Source University Meetup is actually a great idea. Joe Hartley touched on it during our interview and Sun Microsystems formally announced it yesterday. OSUM is a social networking and learning site devoted to Sun Microsystem's ecosystem...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Student, Portal, OSUM, Open Source, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-30

NetBeans 6 will likely use GPLv2

Bruno Souza, NetBeans community manager, has announced that Sun is considering releasing NetBeans 6.0 under GPLv2 with the Classpath exception, in addition to the current CDDL license. A move like this would be well received by any of the NetBeans contributors, and will benefit the community at large.Releasing NetBeans under...

Tags: Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun NetBeans, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-08-20

Cross-platform Microsoft

Cross-platform MicrosoftPerhaps MS has learned thatit does not need to control the kernel or window manager to control the desktop space. If anything, having to deal with those two things has become more of a liability to MS than an asset. At least from a public relations point of view....

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, .NET, Development tools, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mono

Discussion threads 2007-08-13

Open source organizes its developers, developers, developers

Open source organizes its developers, developers, developersKiller IDEWhat's needed is a true killer IDE that's on the level of Visual Studio, and allows creation of GTK apps and QT apps, and includes a WYSIWYG forms designer integrated, as well as an integrated debugger, and a package deployment wizard, code completion...

Tags: Java development tools, Desktops, Operating systems, developer, forms designer, Linux desktop, open source, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-02-14

Eclipse joins Java Community Process (JCP)

Its been almost a year since I called for Eclipse to join Suns Java Community Process JCP organization, and almost three years since Sun suggested closer ties in an open letter to Eclipse. But today it finally happened: Eclipse joined JCP. Eclipse Director Mike Milinkovich writes:There are some who are...

Tags: General, Eclipse, Java, NetBeans, Community, Sun, JCP

Blog posts 2007-01-11

The ripple effect of a GPL'd Java will reach far and wide

Its official. Despite some saying it couldnt be done, not only is Sun open sourcing Java, its doing it under version 2 of the Free Software Foundations GNU General Public License (GPLv2) using an FSF-endorsed footnote known as the "classpath exception." The FSFs classpath exception gives developers a bit more...

Tags: General, Open Source, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Legal, Berlind

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Happy 5th Birthday, Eclipse

The Eclipse Foundation celebrated the 5th anniversary of the popular open source development platform today. It was November 7, 2001 when IBM first released Eclipse as an open source project. At the time, the contribution was valued at $40 million, but has spawned over a billion dollar ecosystem according...

Tags: General, Eclipse, Java, NetBeans, Community, Microsoft, Programming

Blog posts 2006-11-07

NetBeans 6.0M3 vs. Eclipse 3.3M2

Last week Sun and the Eclipse Foundation both released milestone versions of their flagship Java IDE/rich client platforms. This planetary alignment provides a unique opportunity to compare the state of development of these two open source projects. We'll start with NetBeans. NetBeans 6.0M3 NetBeans...

Tags: Eclipse, Sun NetBeans

Blog posts 2006-09-25

Finally, an application for Origami (and maybe dinner for Tim Bray)

Finally, an application for Origami and maybe dinner for Tim Braydon't worry about dinnerDavid,I'd hate for you to be buying dinner after JavaOne, the big Eclipse release, called Callisto, is not until the end of June. Ian SkerrettEclipse FoundationDouble standardThis is nonsense. On the one hand, you promote this "Java...

Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Programming languages, Eclipse, Sun NetBeans, Java

Discussion threads 2006-05-04

BEA exec makes some JavaOne predictions

BEA Workshop Business Unit veep Bill Roth takes a long walk down JavaOne memory lane (describing every year of the event since 1996). Feigning to pull no punches BEA is a sponsor of JavaOne, Roth tries to capture the essence of each year's event with catchy headlines like Mobile...

Tags: Java, JavaOne, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-04-28

When blogs attack

When blogs attackThat is just nuts...Just about every shop I know moving to Eclipse is moving their Swing based application to legacy and slowly migrating to SWT.Correcting the record...First of all. (1) No attack on Instantiations was ever made - in original blog entry or the updated one. The blog...

Tags: Java development tools, Blogging, OPEN SOURCE, NetBeans developer, Matisse, Java Swing, Matisse GroupLayout, Instantiations, Sun NetBeans, blog

Discussion threads 2006-04-20

Seeding the planet with OpenSparc

Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference, Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz reprised his FOSS Free and Open Source Software and ‘free leads to volume’ themes and announced that the Sparc processor will be open sourced under the GPL license. “The most popular products in world will be free—whether...

Tags: Sun Sparc, Jonathan Schwartz

Blog posts 2006-02-14

Might JavaOne have been NetBeans' last stand?

If you were a member of the press and a pre-registered attendee to JavaOne, you would have, in the weeks preceding the annual Java lovefest, had the dubious honor of a flood of e-mails from the public relations folks who represent the many members of the Java ecosystem. This...

Tags: Java

Blog posts 2005-06-30

The future of Java, part 1

"I would love to tinker with the Java language, but that’s not where I feel the pain now," said Java creator James Gosling during an early morning JavaOne session. He, along with Tim Bray, John Fowler and Simon Phipps, discussed the future of Java and applications development this morning at...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun NetBeans, Java, Tim Bray

Blog posts 2005-06-29