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July 1, 2009 Oracle, do the right thing, set Java freeTo nearly everyone’s surprise, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has thrown a last-minute banana peel in front of Larry Ellison’s bid to buy Sun and Java. |
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July 3, 2009 By Hilton Collins (Government Technology)
But does this openness make it less secure than its closed source brethren? Open source advocates certainly don't think so.
Open Source Security July 3, 2009 By Sumner Lemon (CIO)
Cloud-based services are being rolled out without enough attention being paid to securing these services and the information they handle. That was the finding of a recent study commissioned by RSA Security.
July 3, 2009 By Alex Goldman (Internetnews.com)
Enterprise software makers are focusing more on ease of use with their recent releases, an element usually associated with video games and mobile devices than in complex enterprise software products.
July 2, 2009 By Joe McKendrick (ZDNet Blogs)
One of the criticisms leveled at service oriented architecture is that the ‘architecture’ aspect has often been overlooked. In one of his latest analyses, ZapThink’s Ron Schmelzer wonders where architecture fits among all the excitement around cloud computing.
July 2, 2009 By Dennis Howlett (ZDNet Blogs)
No vendor on the planet has successfully pulled off the ‘end to end one stop shop’ trick and Oracle most certainly won’t do it. Regardless of the hubris.
I’m still betting that in the long term, Oracle’s strategy will be shown as fundamentally flawed. The turkeys may be voting for Christmas in July, but I wonder how they’ll feel come December 24th. If not 2009 then 2010.
July 2, 2009 By Alex Handy (SDTimes)
It's been 50 years since the initial specifications of COBOL were laid out, yet the future remains bright for the venerable programming language. With mainframes making a comeback, Linux taking over for Unix, and a new generation of fearless developers waiting in the wings, COBOL might just make it through the next 50 years with the help of .NET and the coming move to the clouds.
Mainframe July 1, 2009 By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
For all the hype around cloud computing, two big issues continue to keep CIOs from feeling safe participating: security and interoperability. Red Hat, by announcing its Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program and Amazon's entry in that program, hopes to allay these concerns…
July 1, 2009 By Evan Levy (Information Management Blogs)
The recent acquisition of Sun by Oracle has raised a lot of speculative discussion about the latter vendor’s strategic pursuits. The move may or may not result in a power triumvirate of HP-IBM-Oracle. But Oracle expanding its portfolio to include hardware could be a game-changer.
July 1, 2009 By John Foley (InformationWeek)
IBM is pushing into the business market in a bigger way with new products and services for on-demand, self-service IT capabilities. IBM is introducing “purpose built” cloud appliances, new public cloud services, and consulting and integration services to help companies build internal and hybrid computing clouds.
Cloud Computing IBM July 1, 2009 By Arthur Cole (Expert Knowledge Databases)
virtualization requires a new kind of management architecture is well known. What’s new is how some of the leading systems are now being integrated into wider platforms aimed at providing a single point of control over all manner of data center functions…
