
Friday November 30, 2007
[ Sun Microsystems Inc. ]
Where was I?
While I was away for meetings at Sun Microsystems's India Engineering Center, Eileen Alan of SDN channel posted a recent conversation I had with Kuldip Oberoi about Java DB and Apache Derby. I think Kuldip and I touched on a number of important topics about the technology, the business and Sun's general strategy behind Sun's Java DB work, and it is certainly very exciting to see the uptake by the user and developer community. It would be even more exciting as we see Java DB used for more and more database courses. I know Sun's Java DB (Apache / Derby) engineers are coming up with some very cool features and applications, too ... For a glimpse of what might be coming up, take a look at Rick Hillegas' "Saucer Separation" presentation given at ApacheCon (Atlanta, Nov. 2007) ... You might also want to check out the upcoming JavaME conference (Santa Clara, Jan. 2008) and check out JavaPolis (Anwerp, Dec. 2007), where there may be up to 4 Java DB related talks, Francois Orsini tells me. So, stay tuned, and, in the meantime, don't forget to check out Orsini's blog!
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Thursday August 02, 2007
[ Technology ]
Underground Notes and Voices from OSCon and Ubuntu Live
Some say Sun is as cool as OSCon (if not cooler) because, among most companies that support OSCon, only Sun can produce truly underground notes on OSCon.
David Van Couvering reviews Mike Olson's comments about his keynote at OSCon and pontificates about whether the value of Open Source could be limited to the collaboration it fosters. David aptly notes that
Open source and an open community gives you the assurance that the
technology you are depending on is not going to be discontinued or put
into "maintenance mode," it won't be acquired by someone who you would
rather not do business with, and it won't be used as leverage against
you to extract money or modify your behavior.
By way of further review, David contrasts MySQL as an Open Source project to PostgreSQL as an Open Source project.
In a separate underground note from OSCon, Barton George has posted his interview with Free Software Foundation lawyer Eben Moglen.
Barton has also produced a series of interviews with some six dignitaries during Ubuntu Live: Mark Shuttleworth. Tim Gardner, Jane Silber, Daniel Holbach, Stephen O'Grady, Jono Bacon.
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