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 The eight-year-old Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is going to fold its assets, operations and mission into a special Member Section of OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. The move is expected to take a few months. In the n...Jul. 24, 2010 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 386 |
 In what is believed to be a cloud first, Unisys is going to offer its upscale enterprise-class ClearPath users a fixed-priced PaaS cloud, a model that flies in the face of the nickel and dime’ing that goes on in commodity cloud land.
Unisys already has x86-based commodity clouds on o...Jul. 24, 2010 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 645 |
 Jinfonet Software, a provider of Java reporting solutions, on Thursday unveiled JReport 10. This new version adds rich visualization and interactive reporting to a robust, agile BI platform, providing embedded operational reporting to developers and self-service reporting to end users....Jul. 22, 2010 11:35 AM EDT Reads: 568 |
 It is widely accepted that large enterprises will start cloud deployment via "private cloud" – that is to say, inside their firewall. But what kind of early applications will these be?
Imagine you are the head of manufacturing at a Fortune 500 company running an Oracle Manufacturing ...Jul. 21, 2010 03:05 PM EDT Reads: 1,549 |
 In Part 4 I discussed the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse and how it allows you to view, create, and manage JPA entity relationships. The Entity Editor provides a centralized view of all entity relationships, allows you to modify entity properties, and allows you to navigate between...Jul. 21, 2010 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 820 |
 Face it, setting up Java EE application environments can be a time-consuming, error-prone, and highly variable process. A cloud computing approach to Java EE application environments can address these problems and more.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Dustin Amrhe...Jul. 21, 2010 10:42 AM EDT Reads: 1,648 |
 For your reference, we've listed the Top 10 Performance Problems as we have seen them over the years when working with our clients. I hope this list is enlightening – and I’ve included follow-up links to the blogs to help better understand how to solve these problems.
Many libraries o...Jul. 20, 2010 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,330 Replies: 1 |
 In the midst of one of the diciest global economies in generations, with whole countries going bust, Intel has delivered the single best quarter in its 42-year history.
The news sparked the tech sector and an erratic Wall Street in general.
Jul. 14, 2010 12:30 AM EDT Reads: 882 |
 Microsoft's Windows Azure platform is a virtualized and abstracted application platform that can be used to build highly scalable and reliable applications, with Java. The environment consists of a set of application services such as "no-SQL" table storage, blob storage, queues, relati...Jul. 11, 2010 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,266 |
 WebLogic Server Scripting Tool (WLST) provides powerful command-line capability for system administrators and developers to configure WebLogic server environments. However, its usage and adoption does not reach its full potential, seen at many working places, due to various reasons. Th...Jul. 8, 2010 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 943 |
 MySQL veterans either disaffected or dismissed by Oracle are starting a new company called SkySQL that will offer “enterprise-class support and services for the MySQL ecosystem.”
The outfit is being pulled together by former MySQL SVP of global services Ulf Sandberg and its one-parag...Jul. 8, 2010 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,199 |
 He said he was going to do it and he has.
MySQL founder Monty Widenius has made good his quixotic threat to appeal the European Commission’s decision to approve Oracle’s acquisition of Sun – and with it MySQL, which Sun paid a downright silly billion dollars for two years ago. Oracle ...Jul. 7, 2010 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,294 |
 Having forced a dominant player like Microsoft to open up some of its interfaces in the name of interoperability, the European Commission is now proposing to force any “significant” player like, oh, say, Apple and Adobe or RIM and Nokia to open up their proprietary interfaces so it can...Jul. 5, 2010 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,095 |
 The New York Times says that Oracle killed a Sun project to clone Intel’s x86 Xeon server chip and turn out a “no-frills, low-power variant” that it could put into thousands of servers for folks like Facebook, Yahoo and Google.
The paper said it had heard tell of such a thing for a l...Jul. 4, 2010 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,445 |
 Whether you call it Football, Futbol, Fussball, Futebol, Calcio or Soccer – if you are a fan of this game I am sure you are looking forward to the upcoming FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The tournaments web site is http://www.fifa.com/worldcup and allows the fans to follow their team...Jun. 30, 2010 10:22 AM EDT Reads: 714 |
 General Dynamics (GD), the big $32 billion-a-year American defense contractor, ushered in four new Tadpole ultra-thin clients Monday, two mobile, two wireless desktops.
Those up on their Sun lore will recall that Tadpole was the name of the Texas start-up that created the first and ...Jun. 29, 2010 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,274 |
 Oracle has hired David Boies to argue its case against SAP. Oracle has made it clear in a 2008 filing with the court that its damages “are, at a minimum, well into the several hundreds of millions of dollars and likely are at least a billion dollars.” Boies is the guy who won the Justi...Jun. 28, 2010 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,132 |
 Red Hat’s desktop virtualization has joined its server virtualization in the 2.2 rev of its standalone KVM hypervisor Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).
Like 2.1 seven months ago, 2.2 can host and manage both Red Hat Linux and Windows VMs and now offers a single infrastructure...Jun. 27, 2010 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,489 |
 Lew Tucker, who was CTO of Sun’s cloud initiative and was pretty much untouched by the cloud-aborting Oracle, has been hired by Cisco as CTO of its cloud effort, a brand new job with broad pull-it-together remit that reports to Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior and Service Provider Group bos...Jun. 26, 2010 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,385 |
 Oracle doesn't look like it's choking on Sun any.
It beat the Street and its own projections Thursday when it reported its fiscal Q4 numbers. Revenue was up 39% and income was up 25%. That translates into a record 46 cents a share on $9.5 billion - 60 cents non-GAAP on expectations ...Jun. 24, 2010 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,580 |
 IBM filed a breach-of-contract / misappropriation of trade secrets suit in New York Supreme Court last week seeking to hold Joanne Olsen to her non-compete and stop her from going to Oracle for a year.
It’s gotten a temporary restraining order according to InformationWeek.
Olsen,...Jun. 24, 2010 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,642 |
 Born to peddle pricey proprietary iron built around exotic multi-core chips that ratchet up the scalability of Java apps – a dangerous exercise that has demanded a $200 million investment from its backers – Azul Systems is now going to start selling software that does pretty much the s...Jun. 24, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,609 |
 Like other desktop-centric technologies such as anti-malware, PC tune-up utilities (disk de-fragmentation, registry cleaners, junk removers, etc) have primarily been a localized technology that relied on the user installing software on the computer to analyze and resolve problems that ...Jun. 22, 2010 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,372 |
 On Tuesday FinancialForce.com announced a new VMforce connector service that will enable Java developers to quickly and easily build FinancialForce Accounting functionality into their own VMforce applications. The announcement was made at The Grape Escape analyst event in Boston. The F...Jun. 21, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 907 |
 GlassFish v3, the Reference Implementation of Java EE 6, can easily run on multiple cloud infrastructures. This session will provide a brief introduction to Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Arun Gupta, Java EE and GlassFish evangelist w...Jun. 20, 2010 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,563 |
 Azul Systems, the Java server appliance house, says Java, Ruby and, for that matter, .NET managed runtimes are pushed to their limits and basically crippled.
Their response times are inconsistent, their scale is limited, and they’re unable to exploit modern commodity hardware with ...Jun. 17, 2010 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,058 |
 What is an event? Generally speaking, an event is an occurrence that brings about significant change in the state of an object from a certain point of view. For example, the “sunrise” is an event that is defined from the perspective of an earthling. Yet from the perspective of an alien...Jun. 16, 2010 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,564 |
 Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse allows you to view, create, and manage JPA entity relationships. The Entity Editor provides a centralized view of all entity relationships, allows you to modify entity properties, and allows you to navigate between the object model, mapping associatio...Jun. 12, 2010 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,374 |
 iomart Hosting has been signed up by football statistics website 11v11.com to provide round-the-clock managed hosting support in preparation for a surge of interest during the World Cup. 11v11.com is the Association of Football Statisticians' official website and has almost every possi...Jun. 11, 2010 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,072 |
 On Friday Momail announces its forthcoming Virtual App Store for release in Q3 2010. Specially developed for emerging markets, where feature phones are dominant and the lack of infrastructural capacity causes problems for always online devices, Momail continues to offer cloud based ser...Jun. 10, 2010 08:14 AM EDT Reads: 632 |
 Aepona is pleased to announce that it is the joint recipient of a Global Telecoms Business 2010 Innovation Award. Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO of TELUS, Graham Trickey, Senior Director at the GSMA, and Michael Crossey, VP Marketing at Aepona accepted the award on behalf of Bell Canada, Rogers W...Jun. 10, 2010 07:13 AM EDT Reads: 791 |
 Silicon Valley’s two divas, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, won their respective Republican primaries in California Tuesday night.
Whitman will run against Democratic nominee Jerry Brown, now the state’s attorney general, for governor, succeeding Arnold S...Jun. 9, 2010 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,155 |
 Sun appears to be sticking in Oracle’s craw and so it’s gonna cough up more of what it can’t digest and lay off what looks to be a lot more Sun people – mostly in Europe and Asia, it says.
It didn’t say how many people but late Friday it told the SEC that the severance charges alone ...Jun. 8, 2010 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,577 |
 To minimize the invocation time, final methods are optimized (inlined) first by Java compiler and then, during runtime by Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler. Because of this, making methods final is considered a best practice for optimizing performance.
If you create classes that may be use...Jun. 7, 2010 11:25 AM EDT Reads: 3,397 |
 Azul Systems announced record first quarter bookings and revenue for its fiscal year 2011 ending April 30, 2010, with revenue up 64% over the prior quarter. Customers purchasing Azul appliances and services in the quarter included Farmers Insurance, Success Factors, Saks.com, TD Securi...Jun. 3, 2010 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,017 |
 Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of cloud management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud Expo being held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010.
Malcolm is keynoti...May. 31, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 14,772 Replies: 21 |
 In a Carlyle Group kind of move, Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair – he of the great rhetoric even if he was Labor – has become a senior advisor on public policy to Khosla Ventures, the $1.1 billion green VC fund run by Sun co-founder Vinod Khosla. Blair’s not merely decorativ...May. 29, 2010 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,341 |
 Terracotta, the open source company focused on enterprise Java application scalability and availability, has tweaked Ehcache, the high-performance distributed caching widgetry.
The new 2.1 release is said to be a significant upgrade.
CEO Amit Pandey says that since Terracotta took ...May. 29, 2010 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,670 |
 Linux developers, stop building RPM packages that don't install properly. Watch this Webinar to learn how to build professional Linux installers fast that install your applications reliably on Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and more. If you develop Linux applications for commercial use, it's c...May. 27, 2010 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,382 |
 A well-planned installation and deployment strategy should be part of any serious software development project. This white paper helps developers of multi-platform applications create professional, reliable installers that make a favorable first impression for your products. It covers ...May. 27, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,247 |
