SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media
company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls will close on
December 31, 2005. So far more than 16,000 readers cast their votes to
select the best software products and services of the year for Java, Linux,
Web Services, XML, Microsoft .NET, ColdFusion and Macromedia MX.
Best Java Products of 2005:
http://java.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best Linux Products of 2005:
http://linux.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best Web Services Products of 2005:
http://webservices.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best .NET Products of 2005:
http://dotnet.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
Best Macromedia MX and ColdFusion Products of 2005:
http://mxdj.sys-con.com/general/readerschoice.htm
SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards program is considered to be the most
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Tom Tromey, for example, has this to say:
IMO, while it would be helpful if Sun opened their source, we don't really
need it.
What we do need is 3 things: Access to the TCK on acceptable terms,
Involvement in the JCP without contamination or other unacceptable
constraints, and Easing of the requirements on subsetting. The free software
community doesn't work well with the "one big perfect release" model that Sun
seems to want. They could lift these restrictions for free implementations
only. I think we all recognize compatibility as a major benefit of the Java
platform; we diffe... (more)
AccuRev, Inc. is integrating AccuRev with NetBeans Integrated Development
Environment (IDE) 3.6. AccuRev demonstrated this NetBeans integration at
NetBeans Software Day, a companion event to the 2004 JavaOne Conference, on
Tuesday, June 29.
NetBeans.org is the home of the NetBeans open source community and code base.
The award-winning NetBeans IDE provides a pure Java technology development
environment for Windows, Linux, the Solaris Operating System or Mac OS X.
NetBeans IDE 3.6, a major revision to the open source platform, is intended
to enable applications development on syst... (more)
Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, inventor of the workstation that originally
catapulted Sun to the front racks and first backer of Google, is about to
deliver a couple of the Opteron boxes that he was brought back to Sun to
create.
Bechtolsheim came back to Sun and reclaimed his old "employee number one"
badge a year ago February after Sun bought Kealia, his latest start-up. He
was made chief architecture of volume systems products and Sun CEO Scott
McNealy went on about how Andy could built a Ferrari out of off-the-shelf
parts.
And this is what he may have done. A source repo... (more)
(July 17, 2003) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. has completed the acquisition of
Pixo, Inc., a privately-held company based in San Jose, California. Pixo
provides the technology to manage the secure distribution and monetization of
digital content for mobile subscribers and provides the critical link
integrating the evolution of J2ME, with the pervasive adoption of Sun's
Solaris Operating System and J2EE. Pixo's products and technologies help
simplify the deployment of new services for both network operators and
enterprises and create a presence for Sun in the arena of digital rights an... (more)