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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report.  Just a few weeks ago, the EU's...

1 replies - 1454 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company.  It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition...

0 replies - 2481 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last.  The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface...

0 replies - 2601 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/22

According to Amazon, the world's biggest software company has also racked up the largest number of pre-orders of any product, EVER! That's right, Amazon...

0 replies - 2357 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Could the EU Block the Oracle-Sun Deal?

This week the European Commission expressed its displeasure with Oracle's lack of cooperation in the antitrust probe surrounding the Sun acquisition. ...

3 replies - 1918 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Did a Crooked IBM Exec Derail Sun Aquisition?

Should the recent insider trading arrest of an IBM senior VP put the whole Sun acquisition saga under new scrutiny?  Robert W. Moffat, who was a primary...

2 replies - 3591 views - 10/19/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday.  Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has been...

12 replies - 6635 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

JavaOne: Is the Party Over?

Since 1996, JavaOne has been the main event in the Java developer community.  If the rumors we've read recently in "The Register" are true (and you...

7 replies - 4865 views - 10/08/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

The EC Is Looking Deep Into the Sun-Oracle Deal

The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle's planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Thursday, citing "serious...

7 replies - 1849 views - 09/03/09 by CodeJustin in News

Larry Ellison - We Will Continue to Invest In Java

Towards the end of the Day 1 morning keynote at JavaOne 2009, Scott McNealy called Oracle CEO Larry Ellison up on stage to address the $7.4 billion dollar...

14 replies - 5803 views - 06/03/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Are you using JavaFX yet?

Are you using JavaFX yet? You should be! Click here to check out our latest Refcard on Getting Started with JavaFX. 

0 replies - 2915 views - 06/02/09 by lyndsey in Announcements

Why the Java Store has Gotten a Luke Warm Reception

Jonathan Schwartz recently blogged about it and it didn't take, not too much any way. Why?I am very excited about the Java App Store, really really excited...

10 replies - 3810 views - 05/24/09 by Mikael Grev in Articles

Java No Cash Cow for Oracle

In a recent Forbes.com article, Oracle's Java Problems, Lee Gomes questions whether Oracle can make money off of the Java platform it inherits from the Sun...

14 replies - 4521 views - 05/01/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

The Future Of Open Source

Sun purchasing by Oracle has worried many people about the future of Sun’s open source products, one of the most important stack of open source software in...

38 replies - 6870 views - 04/22/09 by Jose Maria Arranz in Articles

Oracle Buys Sun - Coverage from around the Web

In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have...

3 replies - 18405 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles