That was not what was being expected. MySQL was touted to go public and Sun never seemed to be wanting to become a database company. But it has happened (press release), and Sun seems to be planning to come out with global support offerings for MySQL. [Continue]
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ifacethoughtsHow Google Worked Around Sun For Android
It would be stale news if I told you that the Android SDK was released. And that it is Java-like platform, so that developers are comfortable programming it using Java based IDEs, E@zyVG has a good overview. The news today is about how Google worked around Sun’s tactics. [Continue]
SUNW To JAVA
Normally a company’s programming and stock market worlds are not directly related, at times even worlds apart. But Sun Microsystems is about to change that. The stock market ID SUNW, which means Standford University Network Workstation, will be changed to JAVA. [Continue]
Sun Makes JDK Available Under GPL
Sun Microsystems has open sourced JDK under GPL v2 as promised. The announcement was made the ongoing 2007 JavaOne Conference. The JDK is now available and is accessible from OpenJDK, a resource to enable collaboration in the open source community. [Continue]
Sun Supporting OpenID
Sun is taking effort to support and use OpenID (press release). Tim Bray offers his explanations and views. The OpenID service only for the Sun employees is a novelle way of using OpenID. [Continue]
More Open Source From Sun
Sun Microsystems seems to be getting more involved with open source - the Programming Language Research group has open sourced one more programming language. Fortress is a modern language, without any carryovers syntax legacy or features. By open sourcing it Sun hopes to rope in researchers, academicians and participants from the industry to coevolve the language. [Continue]
Sun GPLs Java
Sun has open sourced Java under the GPL. What this means is that now the source code will be available for modifications, repackaging and redistribution, but maybe under a different name. The community had been demanding this for long, in fact alternate open source implementations have already begun. [Continue]
Boundaries For Open Source Concept?
Being a technical person at core, it has always been difficult, if not extremely difficult, to justify the open source movement to a business. In fact, in specific cases it is easier to provide numbers instead of vouching for the open source concept. More because businesses require the extrapolated data after the open source effect. [Continue]
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