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September 16, 2007
What's behind the Sun-GSA tiff?
Interesting week for Sun Microsystems. They got a little cozier to Microsoft while closing a door on a rather large customer -- the US government.
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Posted by Mike Swaine at 05:56 PM Permalink
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September 09, 2007
How's that again?
Among the universal mysteries that I will never penetrate, headed by the inexplicable popularity of the Three Stooges, I must now add the baffling thinking behind Microsoft's young-programmer recruiting site Hey-Genius.
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Posted by Mike Swaine at 07:11 PM Permalink
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September 03, 2007
Java as a first language?
When James Gosling recently promoted Java as a first language, not everyone agreed.
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Posted by Mike Swaine at 09:49 AM Permalink
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August 26, 2007
Symbolic Gestures and Filthy Rich Clients
What are we to make of the fact that Sun has changed its stockticker from SUNW, which originally stood for Stanford University Network Workstation, to JAVA, which stands for, um, Java?
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Posted by Mike Swaine at 11:32 AM Permalink
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August 20, 2007
Risky Business
Sun made a profit in fiscal year 2007, which is something it did not do in FY 2006. If Sun is getting healthier as a company, is it because of Jonathan Schwartz's willingness to take risks?
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Posted by Mike Swaine at 11:39 AM Permalink
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August 13, 2007
The Big News
If you disconnect yourself from news sources over the weekend, something that's increasingly hard to do, you are often met on a Monday morning by some surprising news item. Of course, what's big news to you might not even be on your neighbor's radar....
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Posted by Mike Swaine at 10:24 AM Permalink
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August 06, 2007
Field of Extremes
Onno Kluyt has stepped down as chair of the JCP. His successor, Patrick Curran, will have his work cut out for him.
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Posted by Mike Swaine at 10:25 AM Permalink
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July 22, 2007
Java at OSCON
O'Reilly's OSCON is going on this week, and despite the O'Reillian fetish for languages that start with the letter P, there will be a number of Java-related sessions, including Java SE Chief Engineer Mark Reinhold reviewing the first eight months of OpenJDK.
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Posted by Mike Swaine at 01:49 PM Permalink
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July 15, 2007
Project Goose Egg?
At the beginning of the month, IBM released Project Zero, 'an incubator project started within IBM that is focused on the agile development of the next generation of dynamic Web applications' that includes a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP and APIs for developing REST-style services, and since then it has taken quite a beating.
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Posted by Mike Swaine at 06:21 PM Permalink
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July 07, 2007
Intercontinental CruiseControl
I was reading an email Saturday morning from Brian Egge of ThoughtWorks, the company behind CruiseControl, the Java-based continuous integration product (OK, family of products, of which the flagship product is Java-based). Coincidentally...
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Posted by Mike Swaine at 01:30 PM Permalink
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