Java News Desk

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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... (more)

"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 wi... (more)

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, Schw... (more)

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 ... (more)

PreEmptive Solutions, the leading provider of solutions to protect, monitor and manage software development investments, announced here today the immediate availability of DashO Version 5, integrating application security with business performance monitoring for Java-based applic... (more)

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. Two weeks ago, JavaRebel 1.0 won a JOLT Productivity Award for its role in cutting ... (more)

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). We bring you here a brief roun... (more)

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. Quoting "people familiar with the matter" Journal reporters Matthe... (more)

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 c... (more)

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 characterist... (more)

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 imp... (more)

"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 stress... (more)

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 appli... (more)

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 ... (more)

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... (more)

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. ... (more)

Sun Microsystems announced the availability of the JavaFX Mobile platform, enabling the Java wireless ecosystem to create expressive solutions, which leverage the power and ubiquity of the Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME). The JavaFX Mobile platform delivers rich content and... (more)

This white paper highlights the major problems with developing UNIX installer using shell scripts. It also discusses how Java is being used as a successful alternative to shell scripting for enterprise installations. The paper additionally covers how Java developers use InstallAn... (more)

Sun Microsystems has announced the expansion of its disk storage portfolio with two new high-performance disk storage arrays that enable customers to consolidate workloads within the same data center footprint for greater efficiency. The new Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 modular arra... (more)