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Oracle has updated their page on Oracle and Sun and it now includes a PDF entitled "Oracle and Sun Overview and FAQ". Check it out for comments on many topics covering Sun's Hardware (SPARC, Storage, x86) and Software offerings, including NetBeans, OpenOffice, MySQL, xVM OpsCenter, OpenSource, VirtualBox and GlassFish. |
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GlassFish is taking a Detour Through SVN but since the plan is still to go to Mercurial I keep an eye on adoption news and noticed these two from BSC: OOo's Pilot Program and Ken's note on Corba and Kenai. From a quick visit to the Mercurial site some more news:
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Most modern projects at Sun are going to Mercurial, including OpenSolaris and OpenJDK; two that switched to Bazaar are Drizzle and MySQL. And Kenai Supports GIT, SVN and Mercurial (need to check if they plan to support Bazaar).
Added - Other related projects on Mercurial include NetBeans and JavaMail.
A compilation of today's news of interest:
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Arun points out that Rails 2.2 is going to be multi-threaded. That's very good, specially in the context of a JRuby implementation - no need to do magical pooling of instances and the such! And, talking about Arun, his latest TOTD entry (#42!) is a Hello World using JSF. Good to see Arun helping there; the JSF 2.0 spec includes a lot of interesting new features and we are going to need help to provide examples on how to use them! Sebastien writes about how to his OpenESB application uses the OpenOffice Java API to Include MS Office Conversion in his application. Judy reports that there are now 30 FishCAT members around the world that will help improve the quality of the GlassFIsh Server. All of them are non-Sun employees; I count 16 countries at the Quality Portal Home Page. The JavaFX team provides an introduction to the Project Nile, which provides a mechanism to incorporate Adobe graphical assets into JavaFX; check out the Screencast by Jeff Hoffman and the Tutorial Document. |
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Microsoft Office will support ODF, MS to join OASIS TC! Check out:
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OpenOffice.org is the Top CNet Download pick. Tom Merritt, executive editor at CNET, is a user (and so am I :-)): I use it everyday instead of Microsoft Office and I don't have any issues with it.. |
I poked around a bit for download metrics and found two sites: Downloads and Visits. The download numbers are about 360K/week, which is roughly three times GlassFish's Current Download Rate - with the usual caveat about many distributions for successful Open Source projects.
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Breaking News: IBM Joins OpenOffice.ORG.
• News: IBM PR |
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The FOSS.IN 2006 conference starts tomorrow in Bangalore and it looks really good. Check out the Schedule, which includes presentations on GlassFish, Portal, OpenSSO, OpenJDK, OpenSolaris, NetBeans, OpenOffice, Derby and much more. More perspectives from Sahoo, Sivakumar, Moinak, Joe, Madhu and Pratibha. |
I think I need to start planning to attend next year :-)
