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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XenApp 5 - Citrix removes desktop virtualization inhibitors

DateAugust 25, 2008

By Dan Kusnetzky (ZDNet Blogs)
I believe you’d be impressed if you saw a demonstration of all of the capabilities Citrix is bringing to the market. It can integrate cross platform access virtualization in just about any combination and permutation of Windows, Linux and Mac OS; Windows application virtualization and both virtual client and virtual server environments.

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