Open Source “Wannabes” and “Girly Men” Who “Doesn’t Create JACK” Buys JBoss, Open Source J2EE Vendor

September 24th, 2007 Simple Thoughts has always been about technology. However occasionally I like to post something humorous.

April 10th, 2006 I am very happy for JBoss. Redhat has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss.

May 9th, 2005 Which JVM do you want to use today?

October 23rd, 2008 Google Android finally delivers what was promised at the very beginning. While everyone was speculating if Android is going to be an open source platform, they have come out with Android Open Source Project, which will give public at large the opportunity to make contributions.

February 9th, 2006 The title is inspired by Dr. Richard Stallman's article - Free But Shackled - The Java Trap.

April 1st, 2006 In a significant (read earth shattering for Java community worldwide) move Sun has announced their decision to open source Java technologies. The JCP will be disbanded in favor of open source bazaar model.

October 22nd, 2005 Unisys is putting Open Source Java software technologies (J2EE stack) directly on the mainframe using a native Java virtual machine. Why? to improve the scalability, security and transactionlity integrity of J2EE apps; to make it easier for J2EE and mainframe assets to communicate with one another; and to provide n-tier Java/J2EE and mainframe developers a “back door” entry point through the mainframe-based J2EE app server to achieve complex (or tricky) updates/changes to mainframe programming.

June 30th, 2009 The Portals are designed to offer your employees, partners and customers a single point of access to your organization's data, knowledge and services using a simple and self-explanatory interface. The open source standard compliant portal servers offers Content Management capabilities integrated with groupware that enable the users to create site for Internet, Extranet and Intranet that can be directly accessed through their browser.  The open source portal project require relatively lesser expenses and offers wider ambit of development.

June 29th, 2006 Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer for Sun, said the Sun is "months" away from releasing its trademark Java programming language under an open-source license. He said Sun is ruminating over two major issues: how to keep Java compatible and ensure no particular company uses market forces as muscle for its own implementation, a move that would threaten Java's "write once, run anywhere" mantra.

October 19th, 2005 With its latest release of the software, Apache announced that Geronimo 1.0-M5 Java application server has passed all the compatibility tests and has gained official J2EE1.4 certification of the Java server software standard. Apache Geronimo 1.0-M5 is completely integrated with the Tomcat Web server and includes a developer preview of web management console submitted to Apache by IBM.

May 12th, 2005 Finding the GNU General Public License (GPL) too restrictive with regard to derived works, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai is working on an alternative license that will allow people to take commercial benefit from work derived from an open-source program. Finally someone has taken the lead to break from the clutches of GPL.

March 13th, 2009 The workflow technology has been developed to streamline the design of information system. The workflow engines interpret the documents in the server and acts according to the computer defined process.

July 17th, 2006 Today's bot / malware writers are leveraging open source tools and development models to improve their bots according to McAfee. Unlike viruses of the past, bots tend to be written by a group of authors, who often collaborate by using the same tools and techniques as open source developers, said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager with McAfee's Avert Labs.

June 3rd, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft said Tuesday that it will debut its new operating system Oct 22 as it seeks to block a growing challenge from Google, Apple, and the open-source Linux operating system. The world's largest software company is releasing Windows 7 just 33 months after launching Windows Vista which has been widely panned for its demanding hardware requirements and slow response time.

August 29th, 2008 Why does finally have to have braces? I can do this: if(condition) statement; and even this: if(condition) statement; else statements And yet I cannot do this: try { statement; } finally statement; I am forced to do this: try { statement; } finally { statement; } Why Java why? I see why Rubyist's complain of too many braces :) PS. Does that mean I am getting tired of Java? No.