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Sun is using the GPL as a weapon...but against whom and for what purpose?

As part of my work on the Java Swing Builder project (which is released under the business-friendly Apache 2.0 license) I've run into at least two cases...

32 replies - 3373 views - 08/19/08 by Jacek in News

Sun's Open Source Java Right Around the Corner... doh!

News trickled out this morning that Sun is a few months out from preparing the last pieces to it's own fully Open Sourced/free version of Java -- after getting...

35 replies - 2525 views - 06/23/08 by Riyad Kalla in News

JavaOne: Extreme Innovation (or James Goslings Showcase) Part 1 of 2

In a week that now seems to have raced by in a blur, the main hall at the Moscone Center was packed to capacity as you would expect when James Gosling is...

0 replies - 3493 views - 05/10/08 by cornsomething in News

JavaOne: Intel Keynote

It is day three of the JavaOne conference and the first session of the day sees Doug Fisher (VP) deliver Intel’s keynote. He begins by highlighting the fact...

0 replies - 2078 views - 05/08/08 by cornsomething in News

JavaOne: AMD Keynote

AMD had a tough slot towards the end of day two, by this point people have been standing in a lot of lines to take in lots of technical information so it was...

0 replies - 1585 views - 05/08/08 by cornsomething in News

JavaOne: What's Next in Server Side Technology

My final session of day one here at JavaOne was presented by Larry Cable, VP and Architect for WebLogic Server at BEA Systems (now part of Oracle). Larry...

0 replies - 2886 views - 05/07/08 by cornsomething in News

JavaOne 2008 Opening Keynote

The main theme of years conference is “Java + You” and it looks like that could be a big advertising play for Java for the next little while. What does it...

2 replies - 3071 views - 05/07/08 by cornsomething in News

JavaOne Coverage Begins

The early news from the 2008 JavaOne conference in San Francisco is all about the crowd that showed up. I arrived at the venue to find a line of thousands...

0 replies - 1228 views - 05/06/08 by cornsomething in News

CommunityOne Open Source Developer Conference - sponsored by Sun

CommunityOne is a gathering of many open source communities which precedes the JavaOne conference that begins Tuesday here at the Moscone Center in San...

0 replies - 975 views - 05/06/08 by cornsomething in News

Sun Offers Extended Java SE Support for Businesses

In a move that probably surprised very few, Sun will begin to offer extended support for Java under the brand Java SE for Business.

5 replies - 2019 views - 04/07/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News

JDICPlus: Has JDIC Received CPR?

Just in time for JavaOne, it looks like Sun and the community have breathed some new life into the JDIC, the JDesktop Integration Components, a project that...

8 replies - 2264 views - 03/31/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News

Java on the iPhone: Will It Matter?

Over the past few weeks, we've heard a lot about Sun and the fact that they're planning to bring Java to the iPhone.  What does this mean for developers? ...

4 replies - 3198 views - 03/25/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News

Why Microsoft Needs Yahoo: the Real Story

So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called...

0 replies - 10149 views - 02/03/08 by Ivo Jansch in News

Sun Open Sources SPOT

Sun is open sourcing SPOT, its Java-based Small Programmable Object Technology research project under the GPLv2 license. It said the contribution, made in...

0 replies - 1916 views - 01/30/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Groovy 1.5.2 out of the oven

The Groovy development team and G2One, the Groovy / Grails professional services company have just released a new bug fix release of Groovy 1.5, with the 1.5.2...

7 replies - 2970 views - 01/29/08 by Guillaume Laforge in News