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by gautam on April 30, 2008
Finally after years of waiting Java will be going to be 100% open source. Certainly it's good news for developers but are they really happy with what is being termed as a very late action from Sun...
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by gautam on April 29, 2008
It seems Sun will only reach a high when it gets on Apple iPhone which it has been chasing like anything and in its Relentless pursuit both the sides have even ended up making statements which just wo...
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by gautam on April 8, 2008
This is a product which has been created on the basis of feedback received from its customers. It is Java Platform Standard Edition for Business which ensures better support, faster technology access ...
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by gautam on December 28, 2007
Java has played a very long innings and is one of the oldest programming languages but now it seems to be losing out steam to new age languages such as AJAX, PHP for creation of rich internet applicat...
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by gautam on December 12, 2007
Sun is facing criticism not from its competitors but its own former employees!! If we believe the words of this former Sun engineer then the company resorted to strong arm tactics to snatch control of...
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by gautam on November 29, 2007
In the tussle emerging between Google and Sun as a result of Android, Microsoft seems to be having the last laugh and we don't need to guess why. It all started when Microsoft emerged as a winner ...
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by gautam on November 6, 2007
Can you believe this? They used to share this love hate kind of relationship but ultimately gave in and now have come together for the better. If you have sensed it then I am talking about Red Hat and...
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by gautam on October 29, 2007
Mac users will surely not love this as the latest OS from Apple won't be running the latest version of Java. To your amazement Leopard has around three hundred new features but can you image it ca...
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by gautam on October 23, 2007
Sun means business every time and this time round its making efforts to off balance Microsoft Office by doling out Office.org downloads for free along with its regular Java updates. You must be wonder...
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by gautam on October 14, 2007
Today I will not talk about any application development or any other aspect of technology but social responsibilities of corporate. Somebody had said to me 'my friend if you have to run a business...
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by gautam on October 12, 2007
Sun was probably disturbed by the fact that Steve Jobs didn't get Java on iPhone and as a result it may soon come out with a competitor for Apple iPhone with the help of Samsung. Both the companie...
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by gautam on September 17, 2007
Sun is moving slowly and sensibly towards its open source initiative and an after getting a warm reception for GlassFish V1 the company has announced availability of GlassFish V2. This new release bri...
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by gautam on September 14, 2007
Yesterday I talked about how Sun Microsystems was changing its style business where it was patching up with old enemies in its search for more opportunities but it seems the bourses haven't taken ...
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by gautam on September 13, 2007
The manner in which businesses are being conducted today has definitely changed from the time when they were conducted a few decades back when an enemy in business was an enemy and wars were fought pr...
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by gautam on September 10, 2007
As of now the market for commodity silicon and its powered devices runs into billions of dollars and Sun wants to milk it quite well. Sun has gone ahead and unveiled the world's fastest commodity ...
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by gautam on September 6, 2007
Sun is open sourcing Java to bring it back to the popularity charts and now its trying to deploy a strategy for making Solaris a star too. Just as Java is ubiquitous in cell phones, computers and embe...
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by gautam on September 5, 2007
Java, the mainstay of Sun Microsystems which had lost track somewhere in the process is on the revival path. Its open source initiative is expected to do some good to it and it is even looking forward...
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by gautam on August 31, 2007
Just a couple of days back Sun Microsystems changed its ticker symbol at NASDAQ to Java from the existing SUNW which created a lot of furor leading to lot of comments being bombarded on Jonathan Schwa...
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by gautam on August 27, 2007
It seems Sun is all geared to give a complete image makeover to Java and in order to make this possible the company has moved from its ticker symbol SUNW which had a long association with NASDAQ to Ja...
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by gautam on August 23, 2007
Sun Microsystems has embraced GPL v2 for its open source initiative and now it will be releasing NetBeans under this license with Classpath Exception. This implies a number of benefits for the users. ...
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by gautam on August 17, 2007
In the field of politics it is said that there is no permanent enemy or a friend what is permanent is your interests and these words stand true even in the field of business. Just a few days back I to...
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by gautam on August 14, 2007
I remember it was almost two years back when Eric Schmidt of Google and Scott McNealy of Sun had made a promise that at some point of time they would work together and the way they talked about it mad...
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by gautam on August 13, 2007
Java, Java and Java, this name itself has been a reason for feud between Sun and a number of companies including Microsoft but here we seem to be witnessing another battle of sorts between Sun Microsy...
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by gautam on July 5, 2007
Sun has unveiled its second learning center in India at Chennai. It was in the month of March this year when the company had unveiled its first center in Bangalore which is an IT hub in the country. T...
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by gautam on July 3, 2007
A number of projects have adopting OpenJPA for offering Object Relational Mapping for their needs. Apache OpenJPA which has been gaining popularity in the JEE arena has been adopted by BEA as the EJB3...
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by gautam on June 25, 2007
Here some real good news!! Sun has opened up its heart and donated storage technologies to the OpenSolaris community for creation of cheap storage facilities and would be commodity hardware independen...
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by gautam on June 20, 2007
Do you remember the dog fight between Azul Systems and Sun Microsystems which took place in 2006? If not then let me tell you that Azul had slapped a lawsuit on Sun stating that the company was intimi...
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by gautam on June 7, 2007
Sun and CollabNet have together announced the world's first Virtualized Development Platform for distributed software development. It deploys the Sun Blade 6000 modular system for helping developm...
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by gautam on May 25, 2007
Sun and Intel have chalked out a deal for delivering Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) for Itanium 2 based solutions. From next year onwards support would be included as a part of the standard ...
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by gautam on May 22, 2007
Scott McNealy, Chairman and co-founder of Sun Microsystems stated that it won't stop growing as long as you keep cranking out engineers. Here he was speaking in reference to the world's second...
