Jeff Gould

July 1, 2009

Oracle, do the right thing, set Java free

To 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.
Oracle is about to acquire Sun’s monumental collection of Java intellectual property rights. This includes the patents and copyrights to the code embodied in the Java platform editions (EE, SE and ME) and in dozens of critical Java standards (JSRs) associated with the platforms, as well as the all-important test suites (JCKs and TCKs) that determine what software can claim compatibility with these standards and thus receive these IP rights.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Java community to wrest some concessions from the new owner of Java before the deal is set in stone.

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Wednesday
14Nov

Virtualisation market needs choice

DateNovember 14, 2007

By Chris Green (ITPro UK) November 13, 2007
Panel at Microsoft's IT professional conference point to the immaturity of the virtualisation market and the lack of choice for enterprise customers.
The virtualisation software market, while dominated by VMware, has barely touched the surface of what can be done, and lacks the range of options needed in the enterprise, according to industry leaders.
Speaking at IT Forum in Barcelona following the announcement of Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation technology, a panel of Microsoft and Citrix virtualisation specialists argued that the virtualisation market is not as developed as established vendors would claim.

http://www.itpro.co.uk/servers/news/138438/it-forum-virtualisation-market-needs-choice.html

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