This afternoon, the Java FX 2.0 release was made available in public beta format, signifying another big step in Oracle's plan to make JavaFX a premier rich client platform.
0 replies - 24224 views - 05/26/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
2010 was a year of exodus for many Sun employees who disliked the new corporate philosophy under Oracle. The blogger Pelegri has compiled a list of companies that former Sun employees have gone to or started themselves since the acquisition, nearly one year...
0 replies - 19071 views - 01/04/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Yet another great developer has left Oracle this week. Bryan Cantrill, the co-inventor of DTrace, gave a heartfelt farewell to the company he joined in 1996. In his praise of the pre-Oracle Sun Microsystems, Cantrill also has a few well-veiled criticisms...
2 replies - 11946 views - 07/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
After Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's scathing comments criticizing the (mis)management of Sun Microsystems, former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz had only one thing to say when a New York Times reporter asked him to comment: “Larry Ellison is a completely flawless,...
1 replies - 12010 views - 05/17/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Johnathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun recently said what he couldn't say about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when he was with the company. "I feel for Google," said Schwartz, "Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too." Jobs called Schwartz...
0 replies - 14906 views - 03/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun
0 replies - 14555 views - 03/10/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Hibernate 3.5 CR1 JPA 2 Compliant
0 replies - 18026 views - 02/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Oracle Lights the JavaOne Beacon
0 replies - 14352 views - 02/12/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Sun Loses a Poet
For his last day on the job, former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote his
final farewell in a haiku on
twitter: "Today's my
last day at Sun. I'll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku.
Financial crisis/ Stalled too many...
2 replies - 14431 views - 02/05/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Facebook Open Sources PHP Innovations
0 replies - 13880 views - 02/03/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The Next Yummy Version of Android is…
0 replies - 14335 views - 01/19/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Oracle to Cut 50% of Sun Workforce? Sun Says NoLast week, USB analyst Brent Thill predicted that Oracle would cut some 13,800 jobs at Sun if the merger is completed. Thill said the cuts would be necessary for Oracle to have $1.5 billion in non-GAAP...
4 replies - 13359 views - 01/18/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Ellison Plans to Dispense Cloud Computing Beatdown
0 replies - 11528 views - 12/19/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Since 1996, JavaOne has been the main event in the Java developer community. If the rumors we've read recently in "The Register" are true (and you should take them with a grain of salt), developers have seen the last of JavaOne. The Register...
8 replies - 11713 views - 10/08/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
