Peter Wayner at InfoWorld just tested Oracle's new NoSQL database -- and he sounds impressed:Oracle NoSQL might not offer the heady fun and "just build it"
experimentation of many of the pure open source NoSQL projects, but
that's not really its...
0 replies - 4306 views - 11/16/11 by John Esposito in Articles
I had to answer the following question: Shall we use a Portal and if
yes, should it be Liferay Portal or Oracle Portal? Or shall we use just
one or more Java web frameworks? This article shows my result. I had to
look especially at Liferay and Oracle...
4 replies - 4024 views - 10/13/11 by Kai Wähner in Articles
During a keynote that saw Larry Ellison
make up for his abysmal performance of a few days before, and before
bigger news events in Silicon Valley bought the tech world to its knees,
a number of announcements were made with the usual Ellison flourishes....
0 replies - 1940 views - 10/12/11 by Ben Kepes in News
DbSchema is a database tool designed to be an easy-to-use
software, no matter if you are a professional SQL developer or a novice user.
It is one of the best solutions, since it can be used on all major operating
systems and it can be used on a wide range of...
0 replies - 810 views - 08/25/11 by Wise Coders in Announcements
Major Upgrade Released Version 2.1.0 of this database design and synchronization software has been released.
The primary new features of this major release include:
0 replies - 1419 views - 08/16/11 by Harnek R in Announcements
Andrew Binstock (Editor-in-Chief at DDJ) has taken a shot at Oracle’s Java7 release, and I found myself feeling a need to respond. In his article, Andrew notes that
17 replies - 5312 views - 08/06/11 by Ted Neward in News
Google may be in hot water with their judge in the Android lawsuit pre-trial hearings. Judge William Alsup was recently informed of several emails written by Google engineers occurring between 2005 and 2010. One of these emails from 2005 by Andy Rubin,...
2 replies - 9447 views - 07/28/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Mozilla announced "Boot to Gecko" today, their take on a mobile operating system. B2G's main goal is to "pursue the goal of building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web". Mozilla envisions an operating system based on...
2 replies - 14341 views - 07/25/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Oracle, who is suing Google for patent infringement related to the
use of Java in their Android OS, was told on Friday to scale back their
damages claim, which was between 1.4 and 6 billion USD. Judge William
Alsup, in a written order, said the starting...
0 replies - 17812 views - 07/24/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
On Monday, The Java Community Process completed voting on the final approval ballots for Java SE7, and all JSRs were given the green light. This completes the JCP's work on Java 7, but there's a few more steps to finishing the product, according to Mark...
0 replies - 15418 views - 07/20/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
OpenJDK, Oracle's open-source Java SE implementation released under the GPL license, gained another contributor today as SAP signed the Oracle Contributor Agreement. As most of you know, the OpenJDK aims to release their open-source implementations of the...
1 replies - 3374 views - 07/14/11 by Ross Jernigan in News
Tomorrow at 9:00 am PT, Oracle will be hosting multi-city events and live webcasts for the Java community detailing the newest innovations for Java 7. The event will highlight the RC release of Java with sessions discussing:
0 replies - 13512 views - 07/06/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Last August, Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google's Android OS for infringing on
software patents and copyrights owned by Oracle in relation to Java .
The lawsuit could potentially cost Google more than it has made with Android, specifically $1.4 and $6.1...
1 replies - 13262 views - 06/27/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Today, Adobe released an update to Flex and Flash Builder 4.5, adding support for Apple's iOS and Blackberry Tablet OS Flex Projects in addition to the support for Android they added in April. The aim of this release is to give developers one single platform...
0 replies - 9844 views - 06/20/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
10 months ago, Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google based on Android's use of Java. A filing on behalf of Google shows just what they're up against with Oracle. So what are Oracle demanding as compensation? Not only are they looking for a
licencing deal...
2 replies - 5796 views - 06/08/11 by James Sugrue in Articles