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 Terracotta and Eucalyptus Systems have together come up with an integrated open source solution for private cloud that they say will maximize data scalability and application performance. The companies claim that their partnership is aimed at helping enterprises get a better handle on ...Feb. 9, 2010 09:30 PM EST Reads: 341 |
 Every industry has head to head comparisons between popular products and they make great headlines but is the question really being explored? I say no. In fact, I think these comparisons are meant to throw meat to one side or the other and to stir the pot of controversy for one purpose...Feb. 5, 2010 03:00 PM EST Reads: 3,363 Replies: 2 |
 KonaKart (e-commerce) and dotCMS (web content management) have announced plans to release java based CMS-driven e-commerce plug-ins and tool sets they are developing together. This Java-based, Enterprise-quality solution combines best-of-breed e-commerce and web content management.Feb. 4, 2010 07:15 AM EST Reads: 467 |
 Oracle, sensibly enough from Oracle’s point-of-view, has turned off the tap of development resources on Sun’s Project Wonderland, the 100% Java open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. However, a core group of diehard Wonderlanders means to keep the project goi...Feb. 4, 2010 02:15 AM EST Reads: 1,815 |
 You know the top one or two causes of bottlenecks for your applications, but do you know the next six or seven issues that have the potential to cause problems? Mastering application performance requires the right kind of IT strategy, combined with the right tools, that can shed light ...Feb. 3, 2010 05:45 AM EST Reads: 1,049 Replies: 1 |
 Did you know that PHP runs on Windows?? Run Drupal, WordPress, SugarCRM, or other PHP-based apps on Windows today with the free Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Microsoft WebsiteSpark is a specially designed program for PHP Web developers and designers to help you explore running on W...Feb. 2, 2010 11:00 PM EST Reads: 2,314 |
 IBM says it carved a couple of hundred notches on its gun in the fourth quarter after persuading both Sun and HP users to defect. It says all told it’s gotten 2,200 companies to move off of HP and Sun server and storage gear since beginning its Migration Factory program four years ago....Jan. 29, 2010 05:15 PM EST Reads: 875 |
 Oracle finally closed on its delayed acquisition of Sun Tuesday, leaving local entities to shift for themselves according to local laws and sidestepping MySQL creator Monty Widenius’ hopes of Russian and Chinese regulators stalling the merger. Widenius will now presumably revert to his...Jan. 29, 2010 12:45 PM EST Reads: 1,693 |
 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison got out ahead of his own announcement Wednesday of his plans for Sun and told both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that he intends to hire more people at Sun than he fires.
He also struck a go-it-alone pose, seeming to burn his bridges with t...Jan. 27, 2010 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,336 Replies: 1 |
 Oracle said this morning that it had finally completed its acquisition of Sun, leaving local entities to shift for them according to local laws and sidestepping MySQL creator Monty Widenius’ hopes that Russian and Chinese regulators could stall the merger. Widenius will now presumably ...Jan. 27, 2010 06:00 PM EST Reads: 1,465 |
 Netbiscuits, a B2B web software platform for the creation, operation and monetization of mobile websites, and Media Prima Berhad, an integrated media investment group in Malaysia, have announced the joint realization of two new mobile web portals for TV3, Malaysia's leading free-to-air...Jan. 27, 2010 12:30 PM EST Reads: 667 |
 Sun chairman Scott McNealy sent out his farewell to the troops Tuesday, the day before Oracle is supposed to explain what it's going to do with Sun and maybe indicate how many of Sun folks it's going to fire.
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz told Sun employees last week that "Upon change i...Jan. 27, 2010 02:00 AM EST Reads: 1,518 |
 There may be little left for Apple to announce about its purported tablet or iSlate come January 27, a date change since January 26 was noised about. The rumor mill is slowly teasing out all its secrets.
The great unveiling, according to the Financial Times, is still supposed to be...Jan. 26, 2010 05:45 PM EST Reads: 5,829 Replies: 2 |
 The real-time embedded database folks at McObject have slapped a Java Native Interface (JNI) interface on their eXtremeDB widgetry and claim it’s the fastest possible database solution in Java-dom. The move is supposed to underscore their attempt to broaden the product’s appeal by push...Jan. 22, 2010 05:30 PM EST Reads: 918 |
 VMware is out with both Java and Python open source SDKs for its vCloud API meant to appeal to open source developers and ISVs. VMware said key open source client libraries and tools such as Dasein, jclouds and libcloud are now available for the vCloud API. Cloudera, which uses libclou...Jan. 22, 2010 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,218 Replies: 1 |
 Thursday, January 21, 2010 – The European Commission this morning waved Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems through without any strings attached. It’s been blocking the deal since September because Sun owns the popular open source database MySQL, one of the legs of th...Jan. 21, 2010 11:15 AM EST Reads: 1,252 |
 Oracle Corporation on Thursday announced that it had received regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Oracle expects unconditional approval from China and Russia and intends to close the transaction shortly. Oracle will host an all...Jan. 21, 2010 10:45 AM EST Reads: 650 |
 Everybody and his brother expect the European Commission to rubber stamp Oracle’s acquisition of Sun any minute now but when it didn’t happen Tuesday like it was reportedly supposed to we asked why not and were told – you’re gonna love this – that it was because antitrust czarina Neeli...Jan. 21, 2010 09:30 AM EST Reads: 1,216 |
 VMware on Wednesday announced availability of both Java and Python open source software development kits (SDKs) for the VMware vCloud API, making it easier for developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to jumpstart their projects by flexibly leveraging private and public cloud...Jan. 20, 2010 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,008 |
 The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced the graduation of Apache Pivot as a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. In addition, the Project announced the relea...Jan. 19, 2010 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,411 |
 It’s apparently all over but the shouting at Oracle and Sun. The European Commission is reportedly supposed to wave Sun’s acquisition through on January 19. In the process it’ll have to explain how it came to change its mind after needlessly costing the company hundreds of millions of ...Jan. 18, 2010 12:15 PM EST Reads: 5,094 Replies: 9 |
 Just as Oracle is reportedly about to draw a “Get Out of EC Jail Free” card next week, Russia’s regulators have waded into the situation and are threatening to hold up its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) Wednesday decided to kick off an inv...Jan. 15, 2010 07:00 PM EST Reads: 4,173 |
 Adoption of open-source business intelligence software is doubling every year because the products are viewed as "good enough" for routine applications, according to a recent report by Gartner Inc. analyst Andreas Bitterer. Commercial BI software vendors still have superior BI technolo...Jan. 13, 2010 05:30 PM EST Reads: 800 |
 The next hurdle that Oracle’s unconditional acquisition of Sun and MySQL faces is clearing the formal meeting of the European Commission’s so-called advisory committee, the 27 national regulators in the European Union, which is reportedly set for Monday afternoon January 11 in Brussels...Jan. 9, 2010 03:03 PM EST Reads: 4,195 |
 View the live panel discussion taped on December 8, 2009 at SYS-CON.TV's 4th-floor studio overlooking Times Square in New York City a very special "Power Panel" in which Cloud Computing Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan and three top industry guests from EMC, Intel and Unisys will be...Dec. 30, 2009 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,962 |
 Bucking an apparent deal between Oracle and the European Commission to approve Oracle’s acquisition of Sun and its MySQL database, MySQL creator Monty Widenius kicked off a worldwide petition late Monday aimed at “saving MySQL from Oracle.”
He vowed to keep going until the “the ver...Dec. 29, 2009 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,818 |
 The GlassFish Web Stack is a pre-integrated and optimized AMP stack that provides enterprise-grade support for popular open source components such as Apache Web Server, PHP and mod_jk, among others. Watch this webinar and learn to leverage the AMP/SAMP stack with your existing GlassFis...Dec. 19, 2009 11:15 PM EST Reads: 1,088 |
 Oracle expects the European Commission to wave its acquisition of Sun through next month MySQL and all without any annoying conditions. Oracle president Safra Catz, who’s been wrestling with the EC, said so when the company posted its fiscal second-quarter results Thursday, another rea...Dec. 18, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 4,175 |
 Sun Microsystems has unveiled what is being called the first fully functional cloud-based Desktop as a Service (DaaS) for grammar schools and community colleges. The new product is in line with Sun’s vision to build and deploy public and private clouds that are open and interoperable. ...Dec. 17, 2009 09:45 PM EST Reads: 1,578 |
 Oracle on Thursday announced fiscal 2010 Q2 GAAP earnings per share of $0.29, up 15% compared to last year. Second quarter GAAP total revenues were up 4% to $5.9 billion, while quarterly GAAP net income was up 12% to $1.5 billion. GAAP new software license revenues were up 2% to $1.7 b...Dec. 17, 2009 09:30 PM EST Reads: 1,403 |
 As part of its overall strategy to help customers and partners build public and private clouds that are open and interoperable, Sun Microsystems on Thursdsay unveiled innovative open source cloud security capabilities and announced support for the latest Security Guidance from the Clou...Dec. 17, 2009 04:15 PM EST Reads: 1,219 |
 Hudson is an open source "continuous integration" (CI) server initially developed at Sun. This whitepaper describes the capabilities of Hudson, compares Hudson’s key features to those of competitive offerings, and summarizes why Hudson has quickly become the industry’s most widely adop...Dec. 16, 2009 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,080 |
 In today's tough economic environment, many enterprises are looking to reduce costs by leveraging existing infrastructure. This whitepaper describes how Sun's GlassFish Portfolio lets an organization have the best of both worlds and is a perfect solution to implement a dual server stra...Dec. 16, 2009 04:45 PM EST Reads: 727 |
 Today's IT managers strive to deliver dynamic applications and interactive workflows to growing numbers of users with greater efficiency and at a lower cost. This whitepaper describes how the Sun GlassFish Portfolio can help organizations to create cost-effective services solutions.Dec. 16, 2009 04:30 PM EST Reads: 1,088 |
 As enterprises struggle to develop and deliver new and more dynamic services to more people, they must do so with severe budget constraints. Learn how the Sun GlassFish Portfolio offers proven, integrated open source software and enterprise-class support in the most complete, cost-effi...Dec. 16, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 716 |
 Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the availability of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) and significant industry support from Java technology licensees including Caucho, IBM, Oracle and Red Hat. Java EE is the premier platform for web and enterprise application developm...Dec. 16, 2009 02:30 PM EST Reads: 1,898 |
 Sun Microsystems and the GlassFish community announced the immediate availability of Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, the latest release of Sun's commercial Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application server and its open source counterpart, GlassFish v3. Sun GlassFish Ent...Dec. 16, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,573 |
 Instead o only a static display-and-browse relation between flash video player and its users, Moyea JavaScript API(Application Programming Interface) provides a real-time, dynamic and interactive response to customers’ operation.
Shenzhen P.R.C -Dec 15th , 2009 - Moyea Software Co.,...Dec. 16, 2009 03:00 AM EST Reads: 768 |
 Oracle has thrown the European Commission a few bones hoping they may prove to be just the lubricant the EC needs to drop its opposition to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems along with the MySQL database. After having what it calls “constructive discussions” with the EC, Oracle ...Dec. 14, 2009 02:30 PM EST Reads: 1,230 |
 Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced Spot Instances, a new option for purchasing and consuming Amazon EC2 compute resources. With Spot Instances, customers bid on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long as their bid excee...Dec. 14, 2009 02:15 PM EST Reads: 1,596 |
