The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle's
planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Thursday, citing
"serious...
7 replies - 3650 views - 09/03/09 by Justin Sargent in News
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 - 10141 views - 06/03/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos
Are you using JavaFX yet? You should be! Click here to check out our latest Refcard on Getting Started with JavaFX. JavaFX makes it easier to build better...
0 replies - 6371 views - 06/02/09 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Announcements
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 - 6929 views - 05/24/09 by Mikael Grev in Articles
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 - 7428 views - 05/01/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles
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...
39 replies - 13338 views - 04/22/09 by Jose Maria Arranz in Articles
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 - 172270 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles
With Oracle just after buying
Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java
community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something...
23 replies - 177019 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles
Sun Microsystems announced today that it would be laying off 6,000 employees (18% of it’s workforce) in an attempt to better realign itself with “global...
37 replies - 11957 views - 11/15/08 by Riyad Kalla in Articles
Free Event with Humphrey Sheil The Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA) exam represents the
culmination of Sun's certification program for the Java™...
2 replies - 7780 views - 10/09/08 by Skills Matter M... in Announcements
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 - 7317 views - 08/19/08 by Jacek Furmankiewicz in News
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 - 6045 views - 06/23/08 by Riyad Kalla in News
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...
1 replies - 8564 views - 05/10/08 by Philip Cornthwaite in News
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...
0 replies - 4909 views - 05/08/08 by Philip Cornthwaite in News
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 - 3827 views - 05/08/08 by Philip Cornthwaite in News
