Monday January 30, 2006 links for 2006-01-31
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Memo to dictatorships: the Internet is designed to route around you.
Posted by webmink
( Jan 30 2006, 04:28:21 PM PST )
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Strong Sun Showing in Developer.Com Awards
I notice that developer.com has just completed its annual awards event. I was especially pleased to read:
Again this year, Sun turned out to be the company taking home the most wins. Sun repeated their honors by taking home five of this year's awards. Java related products overall turned out to be a big winner.
The Sun winners make an impressive list:
- Framework of the Year
- Wireless/Mobile Development Tool or Add-in of the Year
- Java Tool/Add-in of the Year
- Security Tool or Add-in of the Year
- Framework of the Year
And like the Editor, I was surprised and delighted to see that the open source tool of the year was OpenOffice.org 2.0 (jointly with Firefox) - a random guess would have assumed that Eclipse would win that category, if only for the sake of political correctness. Both the joint winners are projects in which Sun invests, so that's an extra pleasure.
Overall, that result is a great indicator to me - open distribution models, platform-netural tools and open source communities are gaining ground rapidly. If any of this is a surprise to you I suggest you pop over to the Sun Developer Network and join right now (it's free, of course)...
Posted by webmink
( Jan 30 2006, 12:15:00 AM PST )
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