Sun, Oracle and future perspectives
So, now it seems it’s done: oracle.com brightly announces the finalization of the Sun acquisition, the Oracle Java download section features a NetBeans logo (and, vice versa, netbeans.org…
28. Januar 2010
Sun, Oracle, visions achieved and points missed?
James Gosling, known at best as the father of the Java language, is giving his very kind of special “farewell” to Sun Microsystems, now that the European Commission…
22. Januar 2010
“the coming open source evolution”, Sun and Oracle
Reading the Sun Inner Circle Newsletter once in a while, I found the recent issue to be, well, pretty enthusiastic about promoting the idea of Open Source software,…
13. Januar 2010
Java EE “bulk update”: NetBeans 6.8, Glassfish V3, Java EE 6
“Get Tomorrow Today” is what, these days, one can read while visiting the NetBeans web site. Well. Indeed. Today, a major update of Suns Java (Enterprise) environment for…
10. Dezember 2009
SAP, open-ness and moving to Oracle?
There have been a couple of different posts in various SAP related blogs recently, as well as some responses by non-SAP(?) folks, dealing with Java technology (especially in…
30. November 2009
opensolaris-yet-again-notes, #2: tools and packages
Faster than I thought… Fixed my broken X server pretty quickly, and by the way learning how to boot up OpenSolaris into maintaineance / single-user mode (as this…
24. Juli 2009
On community contributing documentation and the benefits of “intuitive use”
As some might know, I have been involved with the NetBeans Community Docs project for quite a while now. I have been using NetBeans IDE same way for…
8. Juli 2009
Debian, Mono, licenses and matters of technology
Starting with this blog post regarding the inclusion of tomboy note-keeping application into the default installation of GNOME desktop on Debian GNU/Linux, quite a discussion has started whether…
8. Juli 2009