The open-plan office in which I’m standing is buzzing, because a new type of threat has emerged in the past 24 hours. Excited young men and women (though mostly men) chatter beneath wall-mounted TV screens showing maps of the world overlaid with pulsing dots and scrolling information – the world’s major cyber-security threats in...
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If Oracle and Sun Microsystems have anything in common – and as the poster children for Silicon Valley’s IT upstarts, they have much in common – it is that they are not afraid to say they have the best technology and no one can touch them. That, in a nutshell, was what Oracle’s top...
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Java will ride the Web app wave into the future, say two Ovum analysts. However, a Hydrasight analyst thinks Java will diminish in importance and enterprise pervasiveness eventually. With the departure of Java co-creator James Gosling, after Oracle’s acquisition of Sun and Java reportedly slipping in popularity, there is real concern from industry watchers...
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James has been a Father for the Java community and a great innovator in the software industry. The final words appear on his blog: Yes, indeed, the rumors are true: I resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd). I apologize to everyone in St Petersburg who came to TechDays on Thursday expecting to...
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Based on Oracle’s recent actions, it seems the company is hell-bent on driving as many of its potential customers as possible away from the UNIX offerings it acquired from Sun and into the arms of Red Hat and other enterprise Linux vendors. I’ve talked before about how UNIX is a sinking ship as increasing...
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