Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Technology on Jun 29th, 2008
Neil McAllister over at InfoWorld has what starts like a doom and gloom piece on the demise of Java. Having seen this kind of sensationalist drivel too often I was inclined to ignore it (and the ensuing thread on /.). I’m glad I didn’t i - Neil makes some good points and presents them well. [...]
Posted in java on Jun 22nd, 2008
I’m going to attempt to answer some of the comments that last week’s post received. Problem is - there were a lot of them - spread across Reddit, Slashdot, Digg, DZone (and again), InfoQ and the blogosphere. I clearly can’t reply to them all so I’ve grouped them and will answer generally.
But first - I’d [...]
Posted in open source on Jun 20th, 2008
Of course the real news was that Red Hat (and many others) were even given the opportunity to be part of the evolution of Java.
This was only possible because a bunch of people (like Simon Phipps), inside and outside of Sun had the clarity of vision, passion and determination to actually make it happen; and [...]
Posted in open source on Jun 19th, 2008
[also read part 2]
At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology.
At JavaOne in [...]
Posted in Red Hat, Technology, Uncategorized, open source on May 18th, 2008
Last week I installed Fedora 9 on my laptop and so far I like what I see - the desktop and visual effects are pretty nice without being to much of a distraction. Security is pretty solid with encrypted disk and SE Linux if you need it. All in all - everything seems to hang [...]