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IBM borrowing from Harmony for its JVM

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:46:55 -0400

Hey, remember that whole dispute between The Apache Software Foundation and Sun over the Test Compatibility Kits for Apache Harmony, the ASF's Java SE implementation? You might recall back when everyone was sure that IBM would be buying Sun, folks seemed convinced that this boded well for a resolution of the dispute on Apache's terms.

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What now for Sun -- and Java?

Josh Fruhlinger — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:08:26 -0400

So, the seemingly inevitable has been evaded: Sun and IBM will not be merging after all, with the deal foundering non IBM's reduced appraisal of the company's worth and discomfort with executive buyout clauses.

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Fanning out on the JVM

Josh Fruhlinger — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:46:02 -0400

I held off on posting yesterday because rumor had it that the Sun-IBM deal would close today, but it looks like another day has passed without that Godot-like event finally arriving.

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Would IBM loosen Java up or keep it tight?

Josh Fruhlinger — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:11:49 -0400

There is still no word on the IBM-Sun merger rumors, but folks I hear from seem to be operating on the assumption that it's a done deal. IBM is supposedly spending this week scouring Sun's legal agreements to make sure that there's nothing there that Big Blue would find unpalatable or indigestible; the Wall Street Journal's coverage of that process implies that Sun's software licensing terms are an important area of that review.

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IBM-Sun merger rumors roundup: What it means for Java

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:04:18 -0400

It's day two of the furious IBM-Sun merger speculation, and there's still no official word -- which in some ways says that this is less likely that it seemed yesterday, because surely rumors of this magnitude wouldn't be allowed to float around aimlessly for so long, wreaking havoc on stock prices? Nevertheless, some of the coverage of the rumor today finally began to give Java its due in this scenario; many in both the mainstream and tech press are seeing how important Java is to IBM, and why it might be central to Big Blue's motivations. Here's some of the high points:

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Sun-IBM merger -- is this really happening?

Josh Fruhlinger — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:48:44 -0400

Some lingering illnesses in my household kept me from getting a blog post in yesterday -- which is just as well, as it gives me more Java To Go energy to tackle the rumors swirling this morning about a potential merger of Sun by Big Blue. Yes, that's right: after months of seemingly idle speculation that someone -- anyone -- would take over the ailing company, significantly less idle speculation has hit two very major news sources this morning.

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More potential Sun tie-ups

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:00:38 -0500

There was some rumbling this week as Sun and HP hyped an upcoming announcement -- would this presage the long-imagined and dreaded Sun merger? Well, no; as it turned out it was just another boring Solaris server distribution partnership; if we needed any more evidence that it would not lead to Hewlett-CompSun, Jonathan Schwartz called his blog post on the subject Live Free Or Die.

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Java: A platform for platforms

Athen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:43:25 -0500

Not long ago, JW blogger Josh Fruhlinger began asking the question: What happens to Java without Sun? The general sentiment among commenters has been -- perhaps a bit defensively -- "Nothing happens to Java without Sun! Don't you realize it's open source?"

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