Apache knows it has the support of the Java community with 95% of JCP election voters choosing them for re-election. As a result, the Apache Software Foundation Board members renewed their resolve today in a statement that criticizes Oracle for not...
18 replies - 9052 views - 11/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
The geeks here at DZone (I count myself among them) were discussing the recent round of heat that Oracle has been taking in the press and the blogosphere. Then we imagined a world of fantasy where similar struggles were taking place. This is the Realm of...
15 replies - 12049 views - 11/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
This week IBM announced that it will be joining Oracle in the OpenJDK and subsequently abandoing the Apache Harmony project. While some are excited about the contributions that IBM will bring to the OpenJDK class libraries (IBM probably won't contribute to...
16 replies - 6688 views - 10/12/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
For the seven months that Oracle has owned Sun's technological assets, they have welcome contributions and roadmaps for their inherited open source projects. However, the company has also made several crucial missteps in its handling of OSS projects and...
13 replies - 6684 views - 08/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
More technical sessions, and IBM’s Keynote at the afternoon General Session.
2 replies - 3037 views - 06/11/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Articles
