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Google's Official Position on Oracle Allegations

Google filed its answer to the responsible court this week in reference to the Oracle lawsuit, which claims that the Android OS infringed on Java licenses by...

35 replies - 7058 views - 10/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - US Government to Upgrade to IPv6 by 2012

The US chief information officer announced the Obama administration's ambitious plans to upgrade the networks and services of all US government agencies to...

0 replies - 15772 views - 10/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - ZFS Creator Leaves Oracle

Jeff Bonwick, the software engineer who led the team that created ZFS, is leaving his position as an Oracle VP.  In his blog, Bonwick gave no sign of rancor...

1 replies - 15303 views - 09/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Oracle Covets Thy Chipmakers

In an investors meeting this week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told the board, "You’re going to see us buying chip companies."  There's speculation...

0 replies - 16098 views - 09/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - A Few More Thoughts From James Gosling

Darryl Taft wasn't the only one who got an interview with the Father of Java this week.  The authors of the Basement Coders blog also got Gosling to do a...

0 replies - 19619 views - 09/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

A Surprisingly Candid Interview with James Gosling - Why He Left Oracle

Continuing the annual traditionan, Darryl Taft got his exclusive interview with Java father James Gosling during this year's JavaOne.  It was a surprisingly...

14 replies - 9535 views - 09/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

JavaOne Review: Is Google Missed?

This year's JavaOne is missing at least six sessions due to the Google's boycott of the Oracle conference. Attendees won't get to see the presentation by...

5 replies - 6016 views - 09/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - SproutCore 1.4 Grows Touch Support

A new release arrived for the SproutCore framework that builds nativeized web apps.  The new release, 1.4, has more touch events for mobile devices and better...

0 replies - 17926 views - 09/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Oracle to Discontinue JavaFX Script; Will Use Java API

After a short three-year run, the scripting language behind JavaFX was declared dead today at JavaOne.  Starting with JavaFX 2.0, which is due out in 2011 (in...

32 replies - 35465 views - 09/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - Mylyn Becomes Top Level Project

After a major reorganization at the beginning of this year, the Eclipse Mylyn ALM (application lifecycle management) project has earned 'top level' status. ...

0 replies - 15244 views - 09/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Oracle Says it Will Mirror Sun Approach to OpenJDK; JDK Remains GPL

While it tries to draw attention away from the lawsuit against Google, Oracle is focusing its public statements toward announcements and explanations that it...

15 replies - 9808 views - 09/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

So There Will be a Java 7 and it Will Have to Pass the JCP

While everyone talks about the slip of the JDK7 schedule, I found another piece of information from Reinholds announcement much more noteworthy:   As...

5 replies - 8236 views - 09/11/10 by Jörg Buchberger in News

PL/SQL Comparaison Between 2 Varchar When One Is NULL

0 replies - 2238 views - 09/10/10 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized

FSF Lays Into Oracle, Begrudgingly Supports Google

The Free Software Foundation has been relatively quiet about Oracle's lawsuit against Google, which was announced nearly a month ago.  This week, the...

0 replies - 4717 views - 09/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

NetApp and Oracle Calm Fears About ZFS Patents

After their long 3-year legal battle around the open source Zettabyte File System (ZFS), Oracle and NetApp announced their mutual dismissal of patent...

0 replies - 4776 views - 09/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles