Sun means to go into the cloud building business Monday. It’s supposed to announce a new portfolio of professional services aimed at businesses of all sizes called the Cloud Strategic Planning Service at the CommunityOne West conference in San Francisco
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Software FX today released the Virtual Training Center for SharePoint 2007, or VTC for short, a complete series of video training solutions geared to help IT personnel and SharePoint users with their SharePoint training needs.
Chart FX for Java has for many years been the leader in Data Visualization components for Java server applications. Chart FX 7 for Java Desktop now gives all the power of Chart FX to Swing application developers in both NetBeans and all Eclipse-Based IDEs.
A third-party technology audit on iTKO LISA 4.6 Suite performed by Butler Group, a UK-based IT analyst firm, which covers product functionality, operation, and deployment along with commentary on product strategy and future directions. The iTKO LISA Suite, comprising LISA Test, LISA Va...
Sun Microsystems has announced its Sun Cloud Strategic Planning Service, a new portfolio of professional services designed to help drive new efficiencies for businesses of all sizes with quickly emerging cloud computing models. With more than 25 years of datacenter innovation and leade...
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today announced that key staff will present a birds-of-a-feather session on
using standard Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technologies to
maximize maintainability on Application Stores projects
at the Sun JavaOne conference,
Moscone Center, San Francisco, June...
Sun's Project Vector, which will be launched at JavaOne this week as the Java Store, is a network service to connect companies of all sizes and types to the roughly one billion Java users all over the world. According to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz it "has the potential to deliver the wo...
Tel Aviv based start-up justAd.TV today announced the successful interoperability of the justAd.TV STB Agent with the Sun Java Media Client software. This interoperability allows TV providers to easily insert embedAds(TM), justAd.TV's wide variety of new ad formats, into non-linear TV ...
IBM is suing another one of its former executives to stop him from going to a competitor. This time it’s former M&A chief David Johnson who’s bound for Dell. Last time it was chip guru Mark Papermaster after he was hired by Apple to be head of iPod and iPhone engineering. 
The entire flow for database consistency integration takes less than 10 minutes to develop on Fiorano. The flow consists of two database components connected via ‘routes’, with a simple transformation component in the middle to ensure that the data formats are consistent. Further, the ...
Teradata Corporation has announced the Teradata Developer Exchange, a web site which supports a thriving and dynamic online data warehouse development community. It connects Teradata engineers, customers, partners and academics who are building and deploying solutions based on the mark...
Ingres Corporation has announced the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss, a fully pre-assembled bundle that combines Ingres Database with Red Hat’s JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. The Ingres Development Stack for JBoss is available immediately as a 90-d...
An enterprise service bus (ESB) forms the backbone of SOA deployments and is the efficient successor to point-to-point architectures. Selecting the ESB for a SOA project is an important part of the planning stage. With an increased shift toward lean and agile software development, busi...
Watch this one-hour webcast from ILOG and discover the importance of visualization and how it can be implemented in web applications with a combination of open source and commercial technologies. Data visualization driven through AJAX Push allows you to make better business decisions i...
Tukwila, the next Itanium chip – which was just delayed this past February until some time around the middle of this year – has been delayed yet again, this time until the first quarter of 2010. Intel is mumbling something about final system-level testing turning up the chance to furth...
Before Sun’s current management leaves the building, it’s going to open an iPhone-like Java Store where Sun-vetted third-party apps can be sold or traded. Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, back blogging again now that the company’s been sold, calls the scheme Project Vector and imagines devel...
Sun Startup Essentials, the Sun Microsystems program dedicated to providing support, funding assistance, and discounted products to entrepreneurs, has announced it will join forces with Zooppa (http://www.zooppa.com), the social network for advertising creatives, to develop its new mar...
McObject®, an innovator in embedded database technology used on devices ranging from BlackBerry smartphones to mass-market MP3 players, announced a partnership with UK-based MPC Data. In the alliance, MPC Data will distribute McObject’s eXtremeDB™ and Perst™ embedded database software,...
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told Reuters in an e-mail interview that then got put in a filing and shipped to the SEC that, despite all the armchair speculation, he's keeping Sun's hardware business. Not only that but he's going to pour money into Sun's Sparc chip.
Sun had a suitor other than IBM and Oracle. It says so in its proxy statement where it tells of its blow-by-blow adventures since November 6 when Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, thinly disguised in the account as Party A, approached Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz about a takeover. Sometime b...
Veryant has announced a new software release to help organizations lower operational costs by modernizing COBOL assets. This latest version of Veryant’s isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (APS) simplifies COBOL and Java integration, enhances the Eclipse-based development environment, a...
SpringSource, the company behind the ever-popular but free Spring Framework, the Apache-licensed Java framework used by half of the Fortune 2000, said Monday that it’s acquired most of the assets of Hyperic, the company with the equally popular and open source web application and infra...
“SpringSource is taking responsibility for streamlining enterprise Java to fully cater to the needs of developers, IT administrators and operators who create, deploy and manage business-critical applications,” said Rod Johnson, SpringSource CEO, as it was announced this morning that Sp...
Today Aptana announced Aptana Cloud Connect (v1.0), a free plugin for Eclipse-based IDEs that connects projects in Eclipse to Cloud Hosting and hosted application life-cycle services.
If you are creating Web applications using Java, PHP or Rails, the Aptana Cloud Connect plugin for ...
The Java Community Process (JCP) Program Management Office (PMO) has announced the 2009 Star Spec Leads, distinguishing top Spec Lead performance and rewarding exceptional service to the community. The Star Spec Leads Program recognizes JCP Spec Leads who consistently showcase their va...
There is no charge to attend CommunityOne on Monday, June 1, with only a nominal fee to attend the deep technology sessions on June 2 and 3. All CommunityOne attendees will receive free access to the JavaOne(SM) conference general sessions and Pavilion on Tuesday 2 June through Thursda...
SpringSource has announced the general availability of SpringSource tc Server, an enterprise version of Apache Tomcat. SpringSource tc Server is hardened for enterprise use and coupled with the mission-critical operational capabilities and advanced diagnostics required by the most dema...
Sun’s going to use Zuora’s commerce-as-a-service billing engine for its cloud whenever the cloud finally gets here and provided, of course, that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, soon to be Sun’s new owner, countenances Sun’s cloud adventure. Larry’s not much of a cloud fancier, having previou...
Software AG has announced that it has been named by Gartner, Inc., in the Leaders Quadrant of the recently published Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets.[1] Governance enables companies to automate the management of services throughout their lifecycle, providin...
In Moscow when the Oracle-Sun news broke, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Reuters that he was “very surprised” and that having just heard about it, he needed to think about it. Evidently they didn’t warn him ahead of time. Having thought about it for a couple of days, he told the Amer...
How odd. Southeastern Asset Management, which spent $2.1 billion buying 22% of Sun over the last few years, didn’t wait around to collect Oracle’s $9.50 a share, money it should have been able to pick up by summer and a price it would have lost roughly $500,000 on. Instead it sold most...
OpenXava 3.1.2, released recently, is a model-driven framework to develop Java Enterprise applications in an agile way: With OpenXava you provide only your POJOs annotated with JPA and you obtain an AJAX application ready for production.
VMIX continues to grow as a market leader with year-over-year triple-digit revenue growth and an expanding client list of dominant brands including Scion, Burton Snowboards, American Cancer Society, as well as top media and entertainment groups, including Tribune Company, McClatchy, Le...
The conventional approach to scaling Java applications – distributing applications out on a large number of instances – yields diminishing returns, which leads to unpredictable scalability and escalating costs and complexity. Azul Compute Appliances have proven to dramatically increase...
What are best practices for building installers for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, IBM i, and more? Find out in this Webinar. Learn how to build a single project file that generates installers for every platform you target. Also see a demo of InstallAnywhere, the #1 installer tool for Jav...
Want an easy way to build installers for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, IBM i, Mac OS X, and more? Try InstallAnywhere 2009! From the makers of InstallShield, InstallAnywhere is the most popular installation tool for Java developers. Create bulletproof installers for any platform in minut...
Charles Fitzgerald suspects IBM is going to regret not acquiring Sun, and letting Oracle do so instead. "They regretted giving Microsoft control of the software crown jewels for the PC; they may face similar situation now on the server." Fitzgerald knows whereof he speaks, having been ...
And to think, had IBM "gone mad" and offered a few more billions, it might have saved itself potential billions and billions and billions of lost revenue.
Today's announcement was made at the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo (http://www.mysqlconf.com) being held this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. With more than 2,000 attendees, it is the world's largest event for open source database developers, DBAs, vendors and corpo...