In the wake of Oracle's canning of the OpenSolaris project, the recently formed Illumos Foundation is making huge strides to fork as much code as possible into a new partner project along with the Illumos OS/net derivative. The new project, announced this...
0 replies - 5728 views - 09/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
They couldn't wait ten more days for Oracle OpenWorld to release an update to the Solaris 10 operating system. Oracle has quietly released the update along with new Solaris Cluster software and Solaris Studio development tools. John Fowler explains the...
0 replies - 15129 views - 09/12/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Illumos, the project to make a fully open source version of Solaris, couldn't have arrived at a more perfect time. The Illumos project lead Garrett D'Amore, a former Oracle Solaris engineer and current Nexenta employee, is pretty certain that the leaked...
0 replies - 4593 views - 08/19/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Several reports are saying that the Chrome operating system will be here by the end of November. That's because on November 26th, Google plans to release a Chrome OS-based tablet to compete with the iPad's resounding success. Google has recruited industry...
0 replies - 21847 views - 08/18/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Determined not to make the same mistakes that Sun did when they bit off more than they could chew in some of their roadmaps, Oracle presented a more moderate amount of data today to outline their plans for the Solaris 11 operating system and SPARC systems. ...
1 replies - 5741 views - 08/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Oracle's neglecting of the OpenSolaris Governing Board has led to an ultimatum which will expire on August 19th, at which point the OSGB will dissolve itself. In order to preserve the advancement of OpenSolaris community and the open source code, Nexenta...
0 replies - 5244 views - 08/03/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Update: At the bottom of this page you will find commentary on these events from Nexenta CEO Evan Powell. Nexenta is invested in the future of OpenSolaris with its NexentaCore platform, which utilizes the OpenSolaris kernel along with ZFS and core Solaris.
0 replies - 6248 views - 07/13/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Nexenta is no stranger to talented developers. The company was founded by the same developers who wrote the iSCSI stack for Linux in 2003. When Sun released open source Solaris, Nexenta decided to build a distribution using the Solaris kernel with Debian...
0 replies - 4826 views - 06/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
At some point during the Oracle-Sun integration, Solaris 10 had a change in its usage terms which has caused some confusion on tech news sites and blogs. The change is described in this quote from the licensing terms: "Once you have completed the...
4 replies - 17586 views - 03/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Oracle has laid out its strategy for integrating Sun's resources - Human and Technological - into their own company infrastructure. The company plans to invest $4.3 billion in R&D this year, and between last year's Oracle OpenWorld and now, the message...
9 replies - 26135 views - 01/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
More revealing statements have finally surfaced about Oracle's future plans for popular Java tools. Oracle recently updated its FAQ on the future of Sun technologies. Glassfish, OpenOffice, NetBeans and VirtualBox were just some of the items mentioned. ...
11 replies - 20728 views - 10/28/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
JNIEasy is
a development Java library focused on JNI access to C/C++ native
methods. Here Jose, its creator, tells you all about it via an example scenario.
6 replies - 26960 views - 04/03/08 by Jose Maria Arranz in News
