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Oracle on OpenJDK

These are encouraging signs that Oracle will continue to invest in OpenJDK and that it won’t follow the same fate as some other Sun Open Source projects like Open Solaris. I’ve long believed that OpenJDK has the opportunity to become the Linux Kernel for Enterprise developers. Kurian discussed the roadmap for JDK 7 and JDK [...]

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I previously highlighted the fate of OpenSSO – a test case for Oracle and a living experiment for Open Source – possibly allowing us to understand how or whether a project really can outlive it’s corporate backer. Well, it seems that another piece of the Sun OSS portfolio has floated adrift from the Oracle mother-ship. [...]

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Snoracle

I’d like to think of myself as an informed prognosticator having worked for Sun for almost 9 years; but this is prognostication nonetheless. I missed my chance to say what I thought of an IBM acquisition but I’ll start by saying – I think I preferred it – it probably would’ve been a better outcome [...]

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What Sun Should Do

Since first posting – I’ve added Open Office and Java FX – just goes to show – Sun have a lot of stuff. I promised myself I wouldn’t bite; yet here I am. I’m contributing to the “Here’s what Sun should do meme”. And why not -  I’m as good a keyboard-CEO as the next [...]

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Tab Sweep

It’s been a wild week on the US stock markets (no doubt true across the globe). The irrational behaviour we’re seeing has created some interesting situations – a number of brand name companies are trading at or below cash or net asset value.This has caused some other irrational thinking – for example Dave Rosenberg is [...]

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On Sun’s fortunes

I left Sun on good terms and I still think it’s a great company full of super-smart people that have done great, no, “amazing” things. I still have many friends who shared the Sun experience (a few of whom are still enjoying employment at Sun). I mention that because I don’t want to sound like [...]

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Java is finally Free and Open – part 2

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 – [...]

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Java is finally Free and Open

[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 [...]

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JBoss, 2 month update

Wow, it’s been almost 2 months since I left Sun to join the JBoss division of Red Hat. Time for a quick update. In many cases I’m comparing with Sun which is a) a little unfair because they’re companies in very different situations; and b) unfortunately my only reference point. So, I apologise beforehand if [...]

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Sun was pushing JavaFX pretty hard at JavaOne this year – as it was last year; but still no actual product. My intial reaction to JavaFX (the scripting language formerly knows as F3) was pretty positive – but that was almost 2 years ago. The phrase “Better late than never” is true for Mother’s Day [...]

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