Oracle and Sun Strategy: Forecast Accuracy
Okay, one of the most important things that I failed to consider and forecast was the time before the first sighting in the wild of a Borg picture and reference to assimilation. Too late now. Clearly,...
View ArticleOracle and Sun: Predicting the Future
It’s done, and the takeover of Sun by Oracle will go ahead. Now the speculation on the future can begin, though we should learn some of the likely strategy during a web conference this evening. I’ll...
View ArticleOracle versus Google
James Gosling clearly joins the wider development community in condemning Oracle’s decision to pursue Google over alleged wilful patent violation. It’s hard to argue with such esteemed commentators,...
View ArticleJava on the Apple Mac [UPDATED]
The recent announcement by Apple that the “Java runtime ported by Apple and that ships with Mac OS X is deprecated” has caused some concern and rather extreme responses. As a company that has recently...
View ArticleJava Returns to the Mac
As I discussed in my recent blog post, Oracle and Apple have reached an agreement that ensures the continuation of Java on the Mac. In essence, Apple are going to drop the majority, if not all, of...
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