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 - 1645 views - 05/06/08 by cornsomething in News
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 - 1398 views - 05/06/08 by cornsomething in News
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 - 2692 views - 04/07/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News
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 - 4476 views - 03/31/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News
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 - 4867 views - 03/25/08 by Matthew Schmidt in News
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 - 12781 views - 02/03/08 by Ivo Jansch in News
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 - 2806 views - 01/30/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
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 - 4052 views - 01/29/08 by Guillaume Laforge in News
Sun has productized the ultimate add-on, its Project
Blackbox water-cooled virtual data center in a 20-foot shipping container, as the
Sun MD S20, MD being...
1 replies - 1632 views - 01/29/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Aaron Houston recently pointed out that there is a new Student Portal on the Sun Developer Network, and could be a helpful resource for both high school and...
5 replies - 1782 views - 01/28/08 by Jim Bethancourt in News
I pose the question of whether the JSR manner of process has really been a good thing for the Java platform. I truly wonder on account I think some of the best...
20 replies - 12201 views - 01/27/08 by Roger Voss in News
See what cutting costs can do. Sun nearly doubled its
profits in the December quarter to $260 million, or 31 cents a share, better
than thought, on flat...
0 replies - 1146 views - 01/25/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
The ink was still drying on Sun’s billion-dollar deal to buy
the webby, low-end open source database house MySQL when Sun turned around and
put money...
0 replies - 4288 views - 01/22/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Sun, Oracle’s sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle
competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source
database that’s part...
2 replies - 2140 views - 01/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
