This afternoon, the Java FX 2.0 release was made available in public beta format, signifying another big step in Oracle's plan to make JavaFX a premier rich...
0 replies - 27961 views - 05/26/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
2010 was a year of exodus for many Sun employees who disliked the new corporate philosophy under Oracle. The blogger Pelegri has compiled a list of companies...
0 replies - 22062 views - 01/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Yet another great developer has left Oracle this week. Bryan Cantrill, the co-inventor of DTrace, gave a heartfelt farewell to the company he joined in...
2 replies - 14613 views - 07/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
After Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's scathing comments criticizing the (mis)management of Sun Microsystems, former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz had only one thing to...
1 replies - 14298 views - 05/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Johnathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun recently said what he couldn't say about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when he was with the company. "I feel for...
0 replies - 16760 views - 03/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun Just a few months short of his 10th anniversary, Simon Phipps is retiring from Oracle (formerly Sun) according to his blog. ...
0 replies - 17003 views - 03/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Hibernate 3.5 CR1 JPA 2 Compliant The JBoss blog just announced the release of Hibernate 3.5.0 CR 1 (that's "Candidate Release," which is basically...
0 replies - 21725 views - 02/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Oracle Lights the JavaOne BeaconYou know it's official when the call for papers is heard. Oracle just announced JavaOne's call for papers and presenters have...
0 replies - 16598 views - 02/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Sun Loses a Poet
For his last day on the job, former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote his
final farewell in a haiku on
twitter: "Today's my
last...
2 replies - 16840 views - 02/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Facebook Open Sources PHP Innovations The early reports about Facebook's PHP rewrite project were vindicated when "HipHop" was introduced on the...
0 replies - 16951 views - 02/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The Next Yummy Version of Android is… Erick Tseng, the Senior Project Manager for Android, recently told Engagdet what the tasty confection codename for...
0 replies - 16618 views - 01/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Oracle to Cut 50% of Sun Workforce? Sun Says NoLast week, USB analyst Brent Thill predicted that Oracle would cut some 13,800 jobs at Sun if the merger is...
4 replies - 15519 views - 01/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Ellison Plans to Dispense Cloud Computing BeatdownNow that Oracle expects the EU to approve its acquisition of Sun, CEO Larry Ellison revealed his plans to...
0 replies - 13989 views - 12/19/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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