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A review by Thomas C. Green: If Sun gets very serious about Solaris
10 on x86 and the Open Solaris project that it hopes will nourish
it, Linux vendors had better get very worried. That's because, in
the many areas where Linux is miles ahead of Solaris, Sun stands a
good chance of catching up quickly if it has the will, whereas in
the many areas where Solaris is miles ahead, the Linux community will
be hard pressed to narrow the gap. In this series of articles, we
take a careful look at Solaris x86, examining the good, the bad, and
the ugly, with Linux as our chief point of reference. And the rest
on The Register.
Something has happened to the open-source software movement. It is
losing some of the intellectual purity that first drew in the ponytail
crowd. It is being subverted to the interests of bigger technology
companies something that makes the idealists who created it angry
and perturbs the romantics who like to see in it proof that individual
human ingenuity can still outsmart faceless corporate power. Further
commentary from Richard Waters can be found here.
Supporters of the next GNU General Public License are girding for an onslaught of comment and controversy, but they remain confident that the open-source community will survive and be made stronger for the effort.
More here.
Admittedly there's some very cool Open Source'd' stuff on Alphaworks
- and there's no denying Eclipse is a quality IDE. But for all that
amazing IBM IP in extant: Where's the beef? Some nominal Linux contributions
that don't exactly live up to promises.
Besides Eclipse: How 'bout it, Big Blue? Maybe an Open Source DB2?
Maybe some pieces of Lotus? It'll take some doing to catch up to number
one.
The OSCON Open Source Convention wrapped up Friday with a feminine touch as some of the community's most prominent women discussed the possibilities, problems, and parenthood aspects of open source software participation. More on some experiences from women in Open Source here.
The NetBeans open source project is proud to announce NetBeans IDE
4.1 and Mobility Pack 4.1 final releases. NetBeans IDE 4.1 introduces
support for development of applications on the J2EE 1.4 Platform and
their deployment to the Sun Java System Application Server 8.1 Platform
Edition.
Visit NetBeans.org to
download the NetBeans
IDE 4.1, the Mobility
Pack 4.1
Highlights and further information can be found at the NetBeans IDE
4.1 release
page.
NetBeans 4.1 Tutorials, Guides, and Articles are here.
And for a top level view about the NetBeans.org community in action,
read the weekly newsletter #204
and the monthly NetBeans Edge.
OpenOffice.org announced the availability of the 2.0 beta version
of its open source office suite. Major highlights include the open standard
OASIS OpenDocument XML format as the default file format, Multi-pane
view, support of CustomShapes and more. Find those changes in the release
notes and download the source below.
http://download.openoffice.org/2.0beta/index.html
The OpenSolaris project is an open source operating system, a community
development effort and a place for collaboration and conversation
about OpenSolaris technology. It is aimed at developers and users
who want to develop and improve operating systems. The OpenSolaris
technology represents cutting edge operating system design, but the
innovation is just getting started!
+ Announcing Grid Engine
6.0 Beta2
The Beta refresh Grid Engine 6.0Beta2 is now ready and courtesy binaries
are available for download.
Grid Engine 6.0 is an important step forward to simplify Grid Computing
at the Enterprise and Cluster Grid level. Important new features of
Grid Engine 6.0 are support for flexible to use cluster queues, resource
reservation and availability of the job submission and control library
DRMAA. http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ProjectDownloadList
+ java.net - The Source for Java™
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and other forums. Ask questions from experts. Get valuable tips and
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But whatever you do, join
the the java.net community - THE community for java developers. http://www.java.net/index.html
+ JXTA J2SE release, 2.3 "Jambalaya"
Release is available
Jxta.org is pleased to announce the availability
of a new JXTA J2SE release, 2.3 "Jambalaya". A lot of progress
has been made in this release and there is a lot to be excited about!
The JXTA Jambalaya release provides significant functional enhancements
of the JXTA J2SE platform, some important performance and scalability
improvements, along with a number of important bug fixes. Binary,
and source downloads are available at: http://download.jxta.org/stablebuilds/index.html
+ Jini - New licensing model
for Jini technology
Sun has announced a new licensing model for Jini technology. Check
out the details.
And to start working Jini.org has an updated Starter
Kit. The v2.1Beta release of the Jini Technology Starter Kit
is now available for testing and evaluation at: http://starterkit.jini.org/downloads/index.html
