Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Business on Oct 7th, 2008
The Websphere Marketing team must be overjoyed to read the recent EDC report - “Application Servers 2008 Rankings” by Janel Garvin (it’s free but you need to register). The report is almost too good to be true for Big Blue - Not only does IBM win outright but it also kicks BEA / Oracle’s butt [...]
Sacha Labourey on JBoss AS 5, OSGi and beyond on DZone. Bill Burke on REST and JAX-RS. btw there’s a whole Microzone on Java Lobby / DZone dedicated to JBoss.
You can now catch up with videos from the JBoss community about JBoss people and technology on YouTube, blip.tv and Streamocracy,
Tha VAR Guy on Red Hat, [...]
Posted in TabSweep on Jun 25th, 2008
Websphere is 10 years old and in an eWeek.com article by Daryl K. Taft, Steve Mills (IBM’s software head honcho) is quoted as saying that he’s “not particularly concerned with competition” in this space, particularly from open-source offerings and “there are no plans to open-source WebSphere”, “Something of this class of software could never be [...]
Oracle closed the $8.5bn BEA deal today following the nod of approval from the EC. Now the check (cheque) has cleared - it will be interesting to see what happens next.
Posted in Enterprise, Technology on Mar 11th, 2008
As a technologist I’ve managed to completely avoid the world of databases; I think it had something to do with a bad reaction to relational algebra in a CS class. However - my employer has made its aspirations clear so I thought I should at least take some interest.
IDC have just released their RDBMS Vendor [...]
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
Sun just closed the MySQL acquisition. No word on Oracle / BEA yet.