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Oracle packages adware with Java updates

Posted March 24, 2011 - 2:15 pm

Since last month Oracle has included with Java updates the kind of self-installing virus scanner that gets Ask.com and others labeled adware.
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Jenkins Defends Split from Oracle's Hudson

Posted March 2, 2011 - 8:53 am

Andrew Bayer of the Jenkins project seeks to clarify the Hudson/Jenkins split from the Jenkins point of view, after Oracle's description of the situation last week.
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Choosing Java sides

Posted February 16, 2011 - 8:50 am

A new Dalvik-free Android project, and IBM's rise to OpenJDK power mark the Java goings-on this month.
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Oracle continues protectionist stance on open source

Posted January 24, 2011 - 2:57 pm

Oracle has been making what seem to some as drastic changes in the way it handles the open source projects it inherited from Sun Microsystems. The open source community has watched with anything from bemusement to outright shock at some of the actions Oracle has taken without apparent rhyme or reason. But if you look close enough, the reason will usually make itself clear soon enough.
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Updated: Research seems to point to Google infringement of Java code, now refuted

Posted January 21, 2011 - 10:10 am

Fans of Google who were rooting for the company in the Oracle v. Google copyright infringement case over Java may be a bit dismayed after reading the claims from Florian Mueller this morning. According to Mueller, there is mounting evidence in the original source files from Oracle's Java and Google's Android that code was indeed infringed. Update: additional research reveals that examined code isn't even in Android.
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Will Hudson by any other name smell as sweet?

Posted January 14, 2011 - 11:18 am

What's in a name? Apparently, every thing. That's one of the take-aways from the apparent fallout of talks between the Hudson software project within Java and Oracle.
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Holiday Party: Sailing into dangerous waters

Posted December 24, 2010 - 10:00 am

On the way to the ITworld Holiday Party, a lost open source blogger finds himself in the wrong party confronting someone decidedly unfriendly to open source.
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Apache walks out of Java Community Process

Posted December 10, 2010 - 12:00 pm

Fed up with ongoing problems with Oracle, the Apache Software Foundation resigns from the JCP with some sharp words on the way out.
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Disharmony Over Harmony in the Java Community

Posted December 7, 2010 - 12:27 pm

According to media reports, the Apache Software Foundation seems to have lost its bid to have the Java Community Process vote down the roadmaps for Java 7 and 8, thus creating a situation where, based on earlier statements from the ASF, may see the open source organization walking out from the Java governing board.
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Oracle Sends Hudson Up the River

Posted December 1, 2010 - 5:46 pm

The Hudson Project decides to shift their code to a better, but non-Oracle, infrastructure, and learns that Oracle will consider their code a fork if they do.
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Oracle may be righteous vs. SAP, but open sourcers call it the oppressor

Posted November 10, 2010 - 1:40 pm

Since buying Sun in 2009, Oracle has made huge changes to Sun properties, among them changing open-source projects in ways that have the best developers bailing.
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Oracle ~~strikes~~ is stricken by blow for open Java

Posted October 25, 2010 - 6:44 pm

A developer Java gurus call a Java Guru has resigned from Java's governing body because, he said in a scathing exit letter, Oracle has replaced the community structure guiding Java development into a puppet government wh
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Oracle/AMD Rumors: An Apple for the Enterprise?

Posted October 8, 2010 - 3:10 pm

Oracle has Sparc, Java, Oracle database, and OpenOffice.org. Now there are rumors it's thinking about picking up AMD. If true, what possible reason would it have? Here's a thought: to build cloud-ready devices.
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The Five Winners of Oracle suing Google

Posted August 23, 2010 - 5:03 pm

In the long run, who knows? But, in the short run, there are some clear winners.
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Is Oracle going after Google because Ellison is buddies with Jobs?

Posted August 18, 2010 - 3:34 pm

At first, I thought this was just a silly rumor. But, after having several C-level executives tell me this theory, I began to seriously consider it.
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Lawsuit Raises Questions about Open Invention Network, Linux Foundation

Posted August 17, 2010 - 11:39 pm

There's been some talk that the lawsuit between Oracle and Google proves the ineffectiveness of the Open Invention Network and the Linux Foundation. If either organization had been effective, the argument goes, then this lawsuit would not have happened.
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Time for an OpenOffice.org Foundation

Posted August 16, 2010 - 12:32 pm

OpenOffice.org has always had issues with too much control from the top. An OpenOffice.org Foundation would ensure the project's longevity and increase innovation.
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"SCOracle" Weaponizes Java

Posted August 13, 2010 - 9:03 am

Last night, Oracle announced it was suing Google for alleged Java patent infringement. But in all the shouting, one wonders: what's next for OpenOffice.org?
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Will Wall Street require Python?

Posted April 19, 2010 - 12:44 pm

One surprising element of regulatory response to the last years' financial catastrophes is a move to expression of complex contracts in executable programming languages, rather than legal verbiage. Python takes a leading role in an early proposal.
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Oracle: Open Up or Watch Sun Set

Posted April 14, 2010 - 10:00 am

Last week's departure of James Gosling from Oracle marks another milestone in a worrying trend for Oracle's continued standing in the open source community. The solution may be something from which Oracle historically cringes: sharing. But if they don't, a lot of value they got from Sun will set forever.
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PDF active playground for tool advances

Posted February 3, 2010 - 12:08 pm

PDF is an elephant no one technology is big enough to grasp
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Recompiling Tomcat may cause runtime problems

Posted October 27, 2009 - 8:51 am

Currently, Tomcat 6.0's source tree contains 1257 Java source files -- it is a significantly large codebase. And, if we're not careful, there are things that can go wrong when we compile it.
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Java, .Net developers want a piece of the iPhone

Posted September 16, 2009 - 5:29 pm

There are some strange paths to iPhone application glory.
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The App Store: Apple's latest gift to the IT world

Posted June 3, 2009 - 10:10 pm

They didn't invent it, but they spurred the imitators.
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Java's iPhone envy

Posted December 16, 2008 - 3:23 am

Their motto: if you can't beat 'em, complain about 'em and/or imitate 'em.
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