Oracle: a good home for MySQL?
I’m not able to attend the whole of Oracle OpenWorld / JavaOne, but I have sneaked in to MySQL Sunday, which is a half-day pre-conference event. One of the questions that interests me: is MySQL in safe...
View ArticleWhy Oracle is immoveable in the Enterprise
At Oracle OpenWorld yesterday I spoke to an attendee from a global enterprise. His company is a big IBM customer and would like to standardise on DB2. To some extent it does, but there is still around...
View ArticleSalesforce.com is the wrong kind of cloud says Oracle’s Larry Ellison
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took multiple jabs at Salesforce.com in the welcome keynote at OpenWorld yesterday. He said it was old, not fault tolerant, not elastic, and built on a bad security model since...
View ArticleOracle versus the JCP as Java’s future is debated
There has always been an uneasy balance between Java as a cross-platform, cross-vendor standard; and Java as a proprietary technology. Under Sun’s stewardship the balance was tilted towards the...
View ArticleIBM to harmonise its open source Java efforts with Oracle
IBM’s Bob Sutor, VP of Open Systems and Linux, says in a blog post that the company will now shift its open source Java effort from the unofficial Apache Harmony, to the official Open JDK. The...
View ArticleThe Java crisis and what it means for developers
What is happening with the Java language and runtime? Since Java passed into the hands of Oracle, following its acquisition of Sun, there has been a succession of bad news. To recap: The JavaOne...
View ArticleWhat you are saying about the Java crisis
A week or so ago I posted about the Java crisis and what it means for developers. The post attracted attention both here and later on The Guardian web site where it appeared as a technology blog. It...
View ArticleNo Java or Adobe AIR apps in Apple’s Mac App Store
Apple’s App Store Review Guidelines appear to forbid Java or Adobe AIR applications from being published in the store: Apps that use deprecated or optionally installed technologies (e.g., Java,...
View ArticleNo more Ruby support in NetBeans – the feature was little used, says Oracle
Oracle has announced the discontinuation of Ruby support in the NetBeans IDE. The reason? First, to free resources for JDK 7 support; but second (and more significant) – hardly anyone was using it....
View ArticleJava Me is the top mobile platform says Oracle
Here’s the sign in Placa d’Espanya next to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. A touch of optimism. ...continue reading Java Me is the top mobile platform says Oracle
View ArticleGuardian.co.uk enthuses about MongoDB, plans to ditch Oracle
The Guardian’s Mat Wall has spoken here at Qcon London about why it is migrating its web site away from Oracle and towards MongoDB. He also said there are moves towards cloud hosting, I think on...
View ArticleOracle says OpenOffice non-strategic, ceases commercial versions. Time to...
The OpenOffice story has taken a curious turn today with Oracle announcing that it intends to cease the commercial versions of this office suite and to move the project a non-commercial organisation....
View ArticleOpenOffice moving to Apache; next step reunification with LibreOffice
Oracle has announced that it is contributing the OpenOffice.org code, the source for the free productivity suite that competes with Microsoft Office, to the Apache Software Foundation’s Incubator:...
View ArticleJava Standard Edition 7 is done, but feels like an interim release
Oracle has released Java SE 7: Oracle today announced the availability of Java Platform, Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7), the first release of the Java platform under Oracle stewardship. What’s in Java...
View ArticleAndroid: good or bad for Java? Oracle claims harm but I am sceptical
Patent blogger Florian Mueller quotes a statement filed by Oracle in its legal dispute with Google over its use of the Java language in Android: Android’s growth in the mobile device market has been...
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