If we used another license for Solaris then HP wouldn't be able to use some of Solaris source-code files inside HP-UX!!. The fact is that they can now with CDDL. Anyone (as far as I understand the CDDL) can get the Solaris source code and use it in their software.
But, if we were to release Solaris using GPL then HP wouldn't be able to use our source-code in HP-UX, unless they were to release HP-UX under the GPL.
So the question is, is HP going to release HP-UX under the GPL,... or not?
And, just questioning, what are HP's contributions to the open-source movement? NFS? Tomcat? The XSLT compiler? JXTA? Solaris? NetBeans? Any of these?
Or maybe they've opened the standards for their (now dead) HPPA architecture as we have done?.
I know it's a long time since my last post. Sorry by that. More in a minute.
This is just to notice the Java Expo 2005 is due next wednesday!!
James Gosling, Mark Bauhaus, Simon Ritter (and even Ruiz Gallardón, Madrid Major), lots of customers, lots of friends, lots of interesting things (including "Swing with a Zing: Designing Rich Clients With Java" by Simon, I won't miss that one! ;-))
So you are writing a Word document in Microsoft Windows and the system just hangs.
And you forgot to save your work so you're in trouble. Big trouble.
And you restart your box and start all over again. And you think of Gates.
You don't understand why the system hangs. It just happens. You either reboot or reinstall. No options left.
Now imagine that happens with the computers of your bank. The computers holding your money. Or the computers handling a nuclear plant. Or the computers making people travel to Mars.
Here at Sun we have Kenny Gross. Impressive guy. Impressive team. Go see how Kenny uses maths to early detect failing parts of servers. Wow. Isn't that cool?.
I'll be posting on J2SE5.0 and NetBeans 4.0 Beta2 by next week. Keep tuned. Have a good weekend.
One of the cool things of working at Sun is that this company spends lots of money in research and development.
These guys at SunLabs have a special sixth sense to anticipate future needs for the customers, and (of course) for the company. Go take a look at their current projects and verify yourself, or download some Cool Stuff from them.
It's good to feel that somebody is thinking in solving future customer's problems while you concentrate in solving their problems today. It gives you a feeling of tranquility. You know, because these guys have been working so hard lately we can deliver 64bit JVMs today, and have lots of different, high-tech garbage collectors in our JVMs today, etc., etc.
You know, these guys are really good. (By the way, you know they're always seeking for good people, consider submitting your CV if you feel like working with them). I really appreciate all the research they've done/are doing with garbage collectors. They're the best in the world, of course ;-). The only problem with that is that tuning a garbage collector appropriately is now sort of difficult: you have too many garbage collectors in your JVM to choose a single one !! :-D.
But I wanted to note a specific project today: The Enterprise PDA Project. As far as I understand this will allow easier integration of PDAs in enterprise environments. That basically means that whenever these guys at SunLabs are done it will be easier for me (and for you too) to securely access Sun resources through wireless access (it's sort of dangerous now, you know: too risky).
Feeling good again. These guys are working in solving tomorrow's problems today. Tranquility.
