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Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.
Richard M. Stallman RMS the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has labeled prominent Open Source software developer Miguel De Icaza a "Traitor" for  joining the Board of Directors of Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation as well as for his creation of the Microsoft .NET-compatible Mono software development...
Tags: Ubuntu, Free Software Foundation, GNOME, Microsoft Corp., Richard Stallman, Miguel De Icaza, Mono Framework, Genie, Linux, Open Source, C#, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, .Net, Operating Systems, Software, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Jason Perlow
Blog posts 2009-09-22
News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...
Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
Blog posts 2009-09-03
Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight
Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...
Tags: Scripting languages, Adobe RIA, SWF, Chrome, WebKit RiA, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, WebKit, Microsoft Office, SVG, Adobe Systems Inc., developer, Microsoft Corp.
Discussion threads 2008-09-05
Torvalds criticizes patent trollers, Microsoft, Sun, virtualization craze
Linux creator Linus Torvalds blasted patent trollers, Microsoft, Sun and the virtualization craze in his second official communiqué to the public. And he said desktop Linux is going nowhere in market share. In a second Q&A podcast posted on the Linux Foundation site, Torvalds told his...
Tags: Desktop, Patent, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linus Torvalds, Torvalds, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
Blog posts 2008-02-04
Sun Microsystems' Jonathan Schwartz on CIO / CTO differences
Blogger Jonathan Schwartz, who also happens to be CEO of Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA), has written an insightful post describing issues raised by Chief Information Officers CIO and Chief Technology Officers CTO during meetings with Sun. His comments reveal distinct differences between the two groups. ...
Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Michael Krigsman
Blog posts 2007-12-18
Richard Monson-Haefel responds, still gets it wrong
Richard Monson-Haefel responds, still gets it wrongSo, maybe in 2 years, they will give it a name and standardize it, AFTERit has been banged on and everybody has had a chance to criticize every little detail. I am sure that Sun will be right behind Google on this one.And, talking...
Tags: Programming languages, Google Inc., Java
Discussion threads 2007-12-04
Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translators
Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translatorsAll part of the planLook like you are cooperating, put enough bugs in the translators so they don't work and people will quit using them and just you MS format. Look back at history and you will find this pattern over and over...
Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, translator, Microsoft Corp., De Icaza
Discussion threads 2007-12-04
Richard Monson-Haefel responds, still gets it wrong
Last week I took Burton group analyst Richard Monson-Haefel to task for a post he made about Android. Yesterday he responded and attempted to clarify his position in "Why Microsoft Loves Google Android, Take 2". While Richard deserves credit for being a good sport about my criticism, I still disagree...
Tags: JCP, Richard Monson-Haefel, Android, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
Blog posts 2007-12-03
More on Illinois
More on IllinoisWhat new?Isn't that what all money-grubbing politicians do?Lawyers? Opposition?If the scheme is anything like as excessively expensive and risky as you fear then surely it is a gift for the political opposition?And are there no tax-payer groups ready to sue?State agenciesGovernment is often resistant to change and not...
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Vertical industries, Tools & Techniques, Word processors, government, IBM Corp., software, Microsoft Corp., desktop
Discussion threads 2007-11-27
JSR 291 approved despite Sun's No vote
JSR 291 is a specification for a dynamic component framework based on the OSGi model. It just passed its Final Approval Ballot with 12 yes votes and 2 no votes. One of the no votes was from Sun, which wrote:The JSR 291 specification is simply a reference to the OSGi...
Tags: Community, General, Java, Sun
Blog posts 2007-05-22
Is Java the missing lever in comparing Windows to OpenBSD?
Is Java the missing lever in comparing Windows to OpenBSD?Java Community ProcessSun invented its own standards body.http://jcp.org/en/home/indexIBM.There was a reason IBM pushed for opening java, in addition to saving on licensing fees. Whatever restriction the community process may have placed on IBM's direction with Java has now been loosened...
Tags: Programming languages, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Win4BSD, Java, BSD, Microsoft Windows, L-unix Link, OpenBSD, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp.
Discussion threads 2007-04-16
SCA/SDO goes to OASIS, could be to SOA what Java EE was to n-tier computing
Seeking to make the Service Component Architecture SCA and its sibling Service Data Objects SDO the basis for a new generation of standardized architecture in the SOA era, the large IT vendors behind the developments have agreed to hand over the specifications for management and maturity to the Organization for...
Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SCA/SDO, OASIS, SOA, Java
Blog posts 2007-03-21
A unified point of control
A unified point of controlData management?I don't think Sun looks at Java as a language for data management. I'm not sure anyone in their right mind looks at Java as a language suitable for data management.All that aside, it seems to be one of the more common applications of...
Tags: Programming languages, Storage, Databases, object-oriented, Java, data management, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Discussion threads 2006-10-31
OpenDocument camp in full-court press with '100 or so' countries?
OpenDocument camp in full-court press with '100 or so' countries?ODF Policy Takes TimeDan-Anyone who's deep into ODF or in state, muni or national government, recognizes that it takes a year or two for the necessary conversations to percolate through a series of processes and "desks".No one is going around with...
Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), http://bostonclub.mit.edu/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=, OpenDocument Format
Discussion threads 2006-07-19
Sun CEO will announce thousands of layoffs this Thursday
Sun CEO will announce thousands of layoffs this ThursdayNo sh^t SherlockYa think?120 grand a pieceNo WONDER Sun is having problems! Maybe if they were located in Idaho instead of Silicon Valley, they wouldn't have to pay so much for workers.more money for lawyers>" Sun's lawyers stopped him at the...
Tags: UNIX, layoff, Sun Microsystems Inc., EFCA, open source, Agilent Technologies Inc., job, software
Discussion threads 2006-06-20
Virtualization
VirtualizationIts a whole lot simpler than thatThe overriding driver for virtualization is because its simpler. Simpler to give every app/project its own "machine" - since combining 2 or more on a single server is JUST TOO HARD for admins to manage, and TOO DIFFICULT for bean counters to handle...
Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, bean-counter, information technology, virtualization
Discussion threads 2006-05-22
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz spars with Gartner analysts
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz absorbed a flurry of jabs and a few left hooks from Gartner analysts Paul McGuckin and Daryl Plummer during an interview this morning at Gartner Symposium. Basically the analysts want Schwartz to show them the money. Sun invests $2 billion in R&D...
Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Java, Jonathan Schwartz
Blog posts 2006-05-17
JavaOne: Java EE 5 and beyond
During the Sun general technical session today at JavaOne, Bill Shannon gave the attendees a status report on Java EE 5.Bill: Java EE 5 is done, yeah!Vendors and IDEs are getting behind it. JEE5's goal is to make it easier to develop JEE applications, especially when first getting started. To...
Tags: Java, Web service, EJB, JEE5
Blog posts 2006-05-16
Sun's Bray to Microsoft's Matusow: "In your dreams"
Sun's Bray to Microsoft's Matusow: "In your dreams"Yes, but which?ObKentuckyDerby: It's well-known that in a group of horses, one will be faster than the rest. [u]Which[/u] is faster is not so easy to predict.[i]While I do believe that ODF may not satisfy some segment of existing Office users (a...
Tags: Wireless LANs, Quality, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, OpenOffice.org, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., standards, IEEE 802.11, standards body, Microsoft Office
Discussion threads 2006-05-08
IBM adds to mainframe's Java flavor
IBM adds to mainframe's Java flavorIntel Multicore Business PCsI gave an IBM rep a hard time after a presentation on multi core by checking an assumption. The assumption was that Websphere tools on PCs were multi-core capable. The rep had to confess that this was not the case, that IBM...
Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Programming languages, Java, IBM Corp., mainframe, COBOL, tool
Discussion threads 2006-05-08