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ScaleMP Raises the Bar for Java Application Performance

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:30:00 EDT

ScaleMP, a provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, today announced record-breaking benchmarking results for x86-based systems using the company’s vSMP Foundation software. An Intel-based system running vSMP Foundation claimed the top result for x86-based systems on the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) benchmark for evaluating the performance of server-side Java applications (SPECjbb2005). Overall, ScaleMP claimed the second highest ever published result, with the next highest result being 20 percent slower. “ScaleMP is a leader in the high-performance computing space and will now, with this latest SPECjbb result, further raise the bar for commercial application performance and innovation,” said Shai Fultheim, founder and CTO of ScaleMP. “vSMP Foundation delivers an entirely new software approach to systems scale, demonstrating the powerful capabilities of aggregating commodity x86 servers into large virtual SMPs. Most other solutions on the market require dedicated systems and offer lesser performance at a higher price.”

VeriSign Identity Protection Access for Mobile Widens Support

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:30:00 EST

VeriSign, a provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world, continues to gain traction with customers in driving the adoption of mobile phone-based security for online access. The VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service is a cloud-based authentication service enabling secure online access for end users utilizing their mobile phones. Today, VeriSign supports both standalone mobile security applications as well as a Mobile Software Development Kit (SDK) for building security into mobile applications. The VIP Access for Mobile application is offered for free from VeriSign and transforms more than 500 different types of mobile devices into VIP credentials for strong authentication including the most popular handsets -- iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and handsets supporting the most popular J2ME and BREW platforms. Strong authentication works by requiring each user to provide not just a username and password but also a unique, one-time six-digit security code generated by a user's VIP authentication credential.

CambridgeSoft Utilizes JNBridge's Interop Technology

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:44:00 EST

JNBridge, a provider of Java and .NET Framework-based interoperability tools, enabled developers at CambridgeSoft Corporation to easily integrate Java-based digital signature APIs into their .NET-based electronic lab notebook product. CambridgeSoft supplies discovery, collaboration, and knowledge enterprise solutions, desktop software, scientific databases and consulting services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries. Using JNBridgePro, developers at CambridgeSoft now are easily able to integrate third-party Java-based digital signature technology into the .NET infrastructure of E-Notebook -- CambridgeSoft's electronic lab notebook software -- to quickly meet business and compliance requirements of a major pharmaceutical customer. "It takes an incredible amount of work to solve such a complex interoperability problem," said Alfred Nehme, director of application development at CambridgeSoft. "JNBridgePro provided a level of Java and .NET integration that otherwise would have been very difficult and time-consuming to do ourselves."

Bluestreak Technology Platform Delivers Open Flash-based User Experiences

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:00:00 EST

Bluestreak Technology on Tuesday announced that the company’s MachBlue platform has expanded its device support to include new Java and Android powered mobile devices. As a result of this development, companies can now use MachBlue to deploy custom Adobe® Flash-based user interfaces, applications, and web services across the majority of mobile devices in the market today including phones running the Android, Blackberry, Brew, Java, Linux, Symbian, and Windows Mobile operating systems.

Qualcomm & Oracle Pre-integrate Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client on Brew

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:15:00 EST

Qualcomm and Oracle on Monday announced the availability of Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client for Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP). With this release, Sun Java Wireless Client, Oracle's Java implementation for mobile handsets, is now pre-integrated with Brew MP. Handset manufacturers and developers alike are provided with a turnkey solution to incorporate Java technology into mobile devices based on Brew MP in a consistent manner across devices, ensuring seamless integration and coexistence of Java applications with Brew MP native applications.

JavaFX Platform the Official Rich Client Technology for 2010 Winter Games

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST

Oracle has announced that JavaFX and Java platforms are being used as the Official Rich Client Technology by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC). Sport fans around the globe can now explore the historical Winter Games medal results through an innovative JavaFX application,Medal Wheel, available at http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-medals/geo-view/.

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Pivot as Top-Level Project

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced the graduation of Apache Pivot as a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. In addition, the Project announced the release of Apache Pivot 1.4, the fourth update since joining the Apache Incubator in January 2009.

Sun Announces GlassFish 3.0 Webinar

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:15:00 EST

The GlassFish Web Stack is a pre-integrated and optimized AMP stack that provides enterprise-grade support for popular open source components such as Apache Web Server, PHP and mod_jk, among others. Watch this webinar and learn to leverage the AMP/SAMP stack with your existing GlassFish Enterprise Server deployments in your organization.

Developing Software Collaboratively with Hudson

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:30:00 EST

Hudson is an open source "continuous integration" (CI) server initially developed at Sun. This whitepaper describes the capabilities of Hudson, compares Hudson’s key features to those of competitive offerings, and summarizes why Hudson has quickly become the industry’s most widely adopted open source CI server.

A Guide to Cost Savings With Sun GlassFish 3.0 Portfolio

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:30:00 EST

Today's IT managers strive to deliver dynamic applications and interactive workflows to growing numbers of users with greater efficiency and at a lower cost. This whitepaper describes how the Sun GlassFish Portfolio can help organizations to create cost-effective services solutions.

Sun Microsystems Launches GlassFish Enterprise Server v3

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST

Sun Microsystems and the GlassFish community announced the immediate availability of Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, the latest release of Sun's commercial Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application server and its open source counterpart, GlassFish v3. Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 provides customers with an enterprise grade, open source based application server solution focused on reducing application and deployment complexity. Download and begin development with Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 today at: http://www.sun.com/glassfishv3.

SPEC Releases Java Enterprise Benchmark

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has released SPECjEnterprise2010, a new benchmark that measures full-system performance for Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application servers, databases and supporting infrastructure. SPECjEnterprise2010 was developed by SPEC’s Java subcommittee, which includes AMD, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, and Sun Microsystems.

Improve Application Performance and Scalability with Terracotta Ehcache

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:45:00 EST

In this white paper you will see how to boost performance with Terracotta’s Ehcache caching products, identify how to select which Ehcache product is right for your application, and see in performance comparison based on Spring’s PetClinic application how Terracotta stacks up against the database, a leading in-memory data grid (IMDG), and memcached.In short, see why over 100,000 deployments already rely on Terracotta’s Ehcache line of products for a simple cost-effective approach to boosting performance, scale, and reliability for Java applications. Terracotta Ehcache caching products allow your application to utilize the full power of the Terracotta platform by providing a simple plugin object cache using the industry standard Ehcache interface or Ehcacheʼs plug-in support for the the JSR-107 interface. Terracotta Ehcache products also may be used as a Hibernate second level cache. For your convenience, information from your member profile has been used to fill out this form as far as possible. Please provide any remaining information requested, then click 'Submit'.

JetBrains Releases RubyMine 2.0

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:21:00 EST

JetBrains have announced the general availability of RubyMine 2.0, a powerful IDE for Ruby and Rails development. RubyMine's second major release this year delivers many additions and improvements and is a free upgrade for all existing users, according to the "year of free updates" licensing policy.

Intalio Announces Jetty 7

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST

Intalio, the Enterprise Cloud Company, today announced the immediate availability of Jetty 7, the leading lightweight open source Java application server. The new release includes features and capabilities that extend Jetty's reach into mission-critical environments, as well as support its deployment on top of cloud computing platforms.

Australian Customs Selects IP Video Surveillance Solution

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:00:00 EDT

March Networks announced that the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service has selected the Company's VideoSphere solution to enhance its security operations in multiple airports across the country. The integrated systems include March Networks' Video Management System (VMS) software and Edge encoders, as well as host and storage servers from Sun Microsystems.

Sun Microsystems Announces New Release of Sun Java Communications Suite

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:30:00 EDT

To meet the messaging and collaboration needs of the world's largest telcos, service providers and most demanding enterprise customers, Sun Microsystems has announced availability of Sun Java(TM) Communications Suite 7. With more than 170 million seats of earlier versions deployed, this new release builds upon proven strengths in scalability, reliability and performance while providing better interoperability and enabling differentiated services with a low total cost of ownership. To learn more, visit http://sun.com/comms.

Aonix Announces PERC Java Virtual Machine

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:01:00 EDT

Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced Java™ virtual machine support for the low-cost BeagleBoard with its flagship product PERC Ultra. More developers and projects will be able to quickly and more cost efficiently launch development that takes advantage of PERC’s new graphics support via the ARM®-based BeagleBoard.

Aonix Announces New Graphics Support in PERC Ultra Virtual Machine

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EDT

Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announced a new release of its PERC Ultra product with support for AWT/Swing graphics libraries. This release is the first support of AWT/Swing graphics libraries in PERC Ultra for embedded and real-time systems.

The Curious Case of Build Release Management eBook

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:15:00 EDT

Build Release Management (BRM) is truly the next generation of IT Change Management. With BRM, you can get compliant and implement total process automation while continuing to work with whatever version control tool, testing application or IDE you are currently using. Download this essential eBook "The Curious Case of Build Release Management" and learn the basics of what BRM is, why users love it and why every application development team should consider it.

Hosted Solutions Expands Application Hosting Business

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:30:00 EDT

Hosted Solutions, a provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS), announced today that the company has significantly expanded its suite of application hosting and management capabilities to include support for a full range of leading business applications, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, WebSphere, WebLogic and JBOSS.

iCIMS Adopts SpringSource Hyperic HQ

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:00:00 EDT

SpringSource, a provider of Java application infrastructure and management, has announced that iCIMS, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions, has deployed SpringSource Hyperic HQ, a key part of SpringSource’s full solution set, which covers the entire build, run, manage lifecycle for Java application development.

Best Practices for Switching Application Servers

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:30:00 EDT

Thinking of moving to a different Java application server? Need to better understand the impact of your move? The state of the economy is driving a re-evaluation of all major technology decisions. As a result, more and more organizations are switching to a more flexible and cost-effective application server platform.

JavaOne 2009 "Weird" Says the Father of Java

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:00:00 EDT

"This was another amazing JavaOne," wrote James Gosling in his first post-conference blog. "It was also the weirdest: between the Oracle situation, the global meltdown, and the financial situation, it was very different." Sun nearly panicked, Gosling admits, fearing that "no one would show up. Almost every company that usually sends a crowd of people to JavaOne had travel restrictions that meant that few could attend." But all went well in the end.

SYS-CON White Paper: Secure Critical Information in Excel

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EDT

Microsoft Excel is one of the most commonly used tools for reporting, analysis and "what if" scenarios, with over 250 million users worldwide. This paper will discuss the steps involved in understanding the requirements for an automated solution. It will also introduce a solution for automating the generation and secure distribution of spreadsheet reports.

SYS-CON White Paper: Actuate on the Open Source Foundation

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EDT

With the advent of Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Application technologies, the Internet is becoming increasingly interactive. Popular web sites such as amazon.com, google.com and ebay.com have set user expectations that web content be very graphical, customizable and highly interactive. Download this White Paper by Actuate to see how this is important to you.

SYS-CON White Paper: TowerGroup 2009 Predictions

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:15:00 EDT

This report provides critical tips for building a long-term customer retention strategies and maintaining growth in a tough economic environment.

SYS-CON White Paper: Actuate’s Rich Information Deployment Platform

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:05:00 EDT

The majority of information delivery approaches fail to meet two core requirements of success, scaling while adding features and adapting to changing requirements. Learn about an Enterprise Reporting Application Platform that meets the business reporting and analysis needs of any user in an organization, any partner and any customer outside the firewall, within the context of a business-specific application experience. To learn more download this White Paper by Actuate now!

There's Still a Ton Going On at Sun: Sun CEO

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:30:00 EDT

Sun's Project Vector, which will be launched at JavaOne this week as the Java Store, is a network service to connect companies of all sizes and types to the roughly one billion Java users all over the world. According to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz it "has the potential to deliver the world's largest audience to developers and businesses leveraging Java and JavaFX."

Enterprise Java: SpringSource Acquires Hyperic

Mon, 04 May 2009 09:30:00 EDT

“SpringSource is taking responsibility for streamlining enterprise Java to fully cater to the needs of developers, IT administrators and operators who create, deploy and manage business-critical applications,” said Rod Johnson, SpringSource CEO, as it was announced this morning that SpringSource has acquired substantially all of the assets of Hyperic, the open source leader in web application and infrastructure management.

SYS-CON White Paper: Delivering a Breakthrough Java Computing Experience

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:15:00 EDT

The conventional approach to scaling Java applications – distributing applications out on a large number of instances – yields diminishing returns, which leads to unpredictable scalability and escalating costs and complexity. Azul Compute Appliances have proven to dramatically increase application scalability while providing faster, more consistent response times.

InstallAnywhere Webinar: Best Practices for Building Java Installers

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:15:00 EDT

What are best practices for building installers for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, IBM i, and more? Find out in this Webinar. Learn how to build a single project file that generates installers for every platform you target. Also see a demo of InstallAnywhere, the #1 installer tool for Java developers. Watch it now!

Software Trial: InstallAnywhere 2009 for Building Java-Based Installers

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:00:00 EDT

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It's the End of Sun, Only Oracle Survives: Charles Fitzgerald

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Charles Fitzgerald suspects IBM is going to regret not acquiring Sun, and letting Oracle do so instead. "They regretted giving Microsoft control of the software crown jewels for the PC; they may face similar situation now on the server." Fitzgerald knows whereof he speaks, having been Microsoft's former general manager of platform strategy until early last year.

Oracle-Sun: Early Round-Up of What the Blogosphere is Saying

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:55:00 EDT

"Casualties? Java and MySQL for sure, and perhaps Sun's hardware business," says CyberTech Rambler; "Oracle can utilize Sun's Solaris and Java platforms....However the future of MySQL has not been mentioned and may not be so rosy," notes Steve Kennedy. The blogosphere is abuzz with news and views in the wake of Oracle's intended acquisition of Sun for $7.4BN announced this morning.

Oracle-Sun: Schwartz Is Toast - Miko Matsumara

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:15:00 EDT

According to Web visionary and SOA expert Miko Matsumara, there was only one certain result of there being two board factions at Sun Microsystems, one in favor of the IBM deal (the Jonathan Schwartz faction) and the other opposing (the Scott McNealy faction): "Mark my words, Schwartz is toast, IBM deal or no deal," declared Mastumara recently in his 'SOA Thoughts' blog. Now that Oracle has bought Sun instead, will the same apply?

Oracle Buys Sun

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Oracle and Sun Microsystems announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt. "We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle's earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP basis in the first full year after closing. We estimate that the acquired business will contribute over $1.5 billion to Oracle's non-GAAP operating profit in the first year, increasing to over $2 billion in the second year. This would make the Sun acquisition more profitable in per share contribution in the first year than we had planned for the acquisitions of BEA, PeopleSoft and Siebel combined," said Oracle President Safra Catz .

PreEmptive Solutions Ships DashO Version 5

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:23:00 EDT

PreEmptive Solutions, the leading provider of solutions to protect, monitor and manage software development investments, announced the immediate availability of DashO Version 5, integrating application security with business performance monitoring for Java-based applications. This latest version of DashO, the most widely used obfuscation product for Java, includes major functional extensions offering improved application security, extended support for emerging enterprise and mobile frameworks, and the ability to monitor application adoption and end-user behavior.

JavaRebel 2.0 Is Out

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:00:00 EDT

ZeroTurnaround announced the release of JavaRebel 2.0, a JVM plugin that enables Java developers to see changes to their code immediately, without the need for application or container restarts.

Analysts Web-wide Discuss the Possible IBM Sun Deal

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:30:00 EDT

Questions are flying around the Web in the wake of yesterday's reports that IBM is interested in buying Sun for $6.5BN. They include "Has Jonathan Schwartz finally found success?" (Therese Poletti) and "Why isn't Cisco buying Sun?" (Lawrence Walsh).

IBM Willing To Pay $6.5BN To Acquire Sun: Wall St. Journal

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:15:00 EDT

In a deal that would significantly bolster IBM's position as the world's largest server maker, the Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that IBM is willing to pay $6.5BN in cash to acquire Sun Microsystems.

Xpress Suite Adds Automatic Java to iPhone Conversion

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:15:00 EDT

Javaground has announced a new component of its Xpress Suite allowing developers to automatically generate a native iPhone program from a Java source code. Traditionally, developers target the iPhone by re-writing their Java source code in Objective C. Now, their existing Java code can be reused and automatically converted to create high-performance iPhone games and applications.

SYS-CON White Paper: JMS Performance Benchmarks by Fiorano

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:15:00 EDT

This paper by Fiorano presents a performance analysis of publish/subscribe messaging throughput of FioranoMQ, SonicMQ, TIBCO EMS and ActiveMQ. This analysis provides a head-to-head comparison of these products designed to illustrate the products' relative performance characteristics for several messaging scenarios.

Tidal Software Forges Development Agreement with SAP

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:45:00 EDT

Tidal Software has announced a development agreement with SAP AG to integrate the Tidal Intelligent Automation Platform with the SAP Solution Manager application lifecycle management solution. This integration is intended to reduce meantime-to-resolution (MTTR) of issues that impact business. It will also help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) for customers running the SAP NetWeaver technology platform and SAP Business Suite software.

Free Download: Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day Evaluation

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:30:00 EST

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Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz Scopes Out Future for Sun's Cloud

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:15:00 EST

"At Sun, we're planning on maintaining Java's ubiquity as the number one runtime environment, backed by the world's most price performant datacenter infrastructure, all powered by Sun's cloud." That, in no uncertain terms, is Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's vision for Java and stresses the new role that Cloud Computing is beginning to play at Sun.

Spime Offers Java API JSR-293 for OEMs and Mobile Developers

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:00:00 EST

Spime has released JSR-293, a standard API to access mapping, geocoding, reverse geocoding, navigation and POI content and services. Spime’s implementation of JSR 293 is compliant with the Java Community Process, and provides standardized access to LBS services from Java ME applications that dramatically simplify the development of location-based mobile applications. Spime JSR-293 extends JSR-179 Location API, enabling it to work on JSR-179-supported phones that have sufficient memory and processing power. The JSR-293 is targeted for MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.1-enabled devices with the availability of JSR -82 or JSR- 179 API.

Sun Announces Strong Growth in NetBeans Partner Ecosystem

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:45:00 EST

Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans Community announced new third-party support for the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE). These new modeling, business intelligence and mobile application development partner offerings continue to enhance the productivity and choice that developers have with the NetBeans platform. Visual Paradigm International Ltd announced its release of the award winning modeling extension for the NetBeans IDE, Visual Paradigm Smart Development Environment (SDE).

O3SIS Announces Java-Based Device Client Suite for Smartphones

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:00:00 EST

O3SIS AG has announced the launch of its new Device Client Suite. Based on OMA DS (SyncML), Java and IP-Push industry standards, the brand new Clients enable users to synchronize all types of multimedia contents from and to mobile devices. The Clients also fully support Push Mail capabilities of Smartphones such as iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian Smartphones. The functionality of the O3SIS Client Suite includes: Support for a wide range of Smartphones and Feature Phones (including latest Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices); Secure Over-The-Air transfer of following device data;

Mobile Software Merger Combines Android, LiMo Forces

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:00:00 EST

Esmertec, a Swiss firm specializing in Android and Java virtual machines, is acquiring Purple Labs, French vendor of mobile stacks compatible with the LiMo Platform. In a stock deal worth about 19.7 million shares, the two European companies will be renamed as Myriad Group AG. The new Myriad Group would combine two major platforms and development teams for mobile Linux with combined, estimated 2009 revenue of about $125 million, and about 800 software engineers in Europe, Asia, and America.