Sun's Scott McNealy: 'Thanks for a great 28 years'

Sun founder Scott McNealy yesterday holstered the snark and poured his heart out in a farewell letter to company employees and stakeholders.
Paul McNamara, January 2010

Java's future uncertain under Oracle's grip
Would the Java community thrive as well under Oracle's control as it did under Sun Microsystems' control? Vendors of Java products seem split about the question.
Joab Jackson, January 2010

Oracle to provide Sun road map next week
Oracle will provide more details about its plans for Sun Microsystems at an event next Wednesday. Meanwhile, European regulators today signed off on the deal after much back and forth between the two sides.
James Niccolai , January 2010

European Union clears Oracle's purchase of Sun
The European Commission granted Oracle an unconditional approval to take over Sun Microsystems on Thursday, following a controversial and widely criticized examination of the deal.
Paul Meller, January 2010

Apache hones Java RIA effort
The Apache Software Foundation on Tuesday is making Apache Pivot, a platform for building rich Internet applications in Java, an Apache Top-Level Project and also is releasing version 1.4 of the technology, the organization said Tuesday.
Paul Krill, January 2010

REST: Tying AJAX to the cloud
In December, I said that 2010 could be the year of AJAX and REST services. I wrote at some length about my own journey, which generated quite a bit of discussion, so I thought I would follow up that post by going into more detail about how I tie AJAX to the cloud.
Martin Heller, January 2010

Rails 3 beta eyed for late January release
Ruby on Rails 3, an upgrade to the popular Web development framework that merges Rails with the alternative Merb framework, is due to be offered as a beta release by the end of this month, the founder of Rails said on Monday afternoon.
Paul Krill, January 2010

JetBrains and Electric Cloud offer new build tools
JetBrains and Electric Cloud have announced new build tools that are free for some users.
Martin Heller, December 2009

Sun updates Java Store beta
Sun Microsystems unveiled last Friday an updated beta release of Java Store, a storefront for discovering and acquiring Java and JavaFX applications.
Paul Krill, December 2009

Sun offers enterprise Java technologies but is silent on Oracle
Sun Microsystems officials introduced last week upgrades to three Java-based technologies, including the company's latest implementation of enterprise Java. But they were silent on the elephant in the room: how the company's efforts might be impacted by the planned acquisition of Sun by Oracle.
Paul Krill, December 2009

Microsoft adds SSL to AJAX CDN
Microsoft has added SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) support to the Microsoft AJAX CDN (Content Delivery Network), enabling SSL backing for scripts served off the CDN.
Paul Krill, November 2009

Java: What does its future hold?
Fourteen years ago, a marketing genius at Sun Microsystems changed the name of a cross-platform experimental language from the very dependable-sounding "Oak" to the hyper-caffeinated moniker "Java," and proved once again why engineers are scared of the power that the marketing department can unleash when lightning strikes.
Peter Wayner, November 2009

Eich: JavaScript getting faster, could displace Flash
JavaScript, the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, told InfoWorld. "The browser vendors are making super-fast implementations of it, so JavaScript's gotten very, very fast, and this is helping developers use it more," Eich said when asked what he sees in the future for JavaScript. "It's being used for 3D graphics programming now."
Paul Krill, November 2009

Apache readies Tomcat Java servlet container upgrade
The Apache Software Foundation for open source projects is readying an upgrade to its Tomcat Java servlet container, eyeing improvements in areas such as scalability and security, Apache personnel said earlier this month.
Paul Krill, November 2009

Now open source: Several of Google's JavaScript tools
Google has decided to release as open source several of its key application development tools, hoping that they will prove useful for external programmers to build faster Web applications.
Juan Carlos Perez, November 2009

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