/blog/javablog/ 2008-03-08T16:31:46-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2008/03/java_on_iphone.html Sun has announced plans to put Java on the iPhone. See Sun Announces JVM for iPhone for the video.

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2008-03-08T16:31:46-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2008/03/java_python_and.html Today, James Gosling announced that Ted Leung (Python) and Frank Wierzbicki (Jython) will become Sun employees this month.

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2008-03-03T13:35:02-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2008/02/post.html Recently, I spoke with Kevin Schmidt of Sun Microsystems regarding Open ESB, a community-driven open-source ESB used by Sun and other companies. Sun contributed Open ESB to the community under the CDDL license years ago, and uses it as the basis for its JBI reference implementation, as well as its Java Composite Application Platform Suite of applications (JCAPS or Java CAPS).

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2008-02-28T16:04:30-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2008/02/microsoft_loves.html Microsoft's recent acquisition activity brings to it a lot of Java-based software, expertise, as well as a large Java-focused customer base.

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2008-02-11T15:58:42-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2008/02/open_source_act.html SpringSource has purchased Covalent Technologies, a leader in support and services for Apache software projects.

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2008-02-06T16:31:26-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2008/02/reuters_chooses.html The Transactions Platform group at Reuters chose Sun's Java RTS for its next generation trading system platform.

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2008-02-04T18:04:37-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2008/01/acquisition_tue.html Today, Sun announced their acquisition of MySQL, and Oracle announced their acquisition of BEA. Let's see which one gets more attention.

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2008-01-16T08:41:00-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2008/01/tru2way.html At the Consumer Electronics Show this week, CableLabs announced that OpenCable has been renamed to tru2way.

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2008-01-09T15:20:25-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2008/01/java_and_books.html Java book sales may be down from what they were during the .com bubble, but Java-based book reader sales are up.

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2008-01-09T10:41:12-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2008/01/silence_is_gold.html Silence may have worked in school, but not in the software industry. Hype, like it or not, can go a long way. So why has Sun gone so quiet with Java FX Script and Java FX Mobile?

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2008-01-03T10:17:48-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2007/12/plastic_and_plu.html In the film, The Graduate, the advice for the future was “plastic.” In Disney’s Hercules, it was “indoor plumbing.” Both were close.

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2007-12-12T23:18:29-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2007/12/java_and_comput.html I recently saw a blog entry on whether Java belongs in a university computer science curriculum. I think there are deeper issues than Java to consider.

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2007-12-04T09:52:13-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2007/11/google_android.html The controversy around Android and Java; what does it mean to the Sun-Google relationship?

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2007-11-28T08:59:20-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2007/11/open_source_and.html In many ways, the open-source movement is like Socialism--the community working for the benefit of the community without much regard for personal gain.

]]> Freelancer Blog ebruno 2007-11-19T09:48:45-05:00 /blog/javablog/archives/2007/11/foss_java_now_a.html Today marks the one-year anniversary of open source Java technology as well as the formation of the OpenJDK community for Java SE and the Mobile & Embedded community for Java ME.

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