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- Sun CTO previews JavaFX-powered game
- Sun Microsystems shows off a new JavaFX-powered game at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Sun CTO Robert Brewin talks to Ken Russell and Chris Oliver of the company's JavaFX team about how they created the animation inside the game Moon Tank using the JavaFX environment.
- Tags: JavaFX, Sun Microsystems, CTO, Sun Microsystems Inc., Games, Personal Technology
- Videos 2008-05-07
- Sun wants consumers to innovate
- In an interview with CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz sheds some light on JavaFX, a rich Internet application environment, and Project Hyrdazine, a new cloud computing service in development.
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Microsystems
- Videos 2008-05-07
- Sun unveils JavaFX apps, Photo Flocker, Movie Cloud
- Sun Microsystems demos two new JavaFX-powered applications, Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud, at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Rich Green, the company's executive vice president of software, shows attendees Photo Flocker, an app that allows users to search for photos by tags and display the photos...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Photograph, Photo Flocker, Movie Cloud, JavaFX, Sun Microsystems, Movie
- Videos 2008-05-06
- JavaOne '08: Sun demos JavaFX platform
- Here's a look at Sun Microsystems’ new JavaFX application, with Flickr and Twitter feeds running in Facebook within the browser, dragged to the desktop, and then put on a mobile phone. Sun Microsystems executives Rich Green and Nandini Ramani showed the JavaFX environment at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco....
- Tags: Flickr, Twitter, JavaFX, JavaOne, Sun Microsystems, Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Internet Application Environment, but no tags matched
- Videos 2008-05-06
- JavaOne '08: Neil Young chronicles music career
- Legendary musician Neil Young shows off a new multimedia project spanning his music career. Joining Young onstage at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco to demo the project--which uses Java and Blu-ray technology--is Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green, Sun executive vice president of software.
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaOne, Professional Development, Programming Languages, Career, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Neil Young, JavaFX, Sun Microsystems, Shakey Pictures, Java
- Videos 2008-05-06
- Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL only
- I wonder what that was all about. I mean the last dozen months of Sun Microsystems seemingly interested in and participating in the definitions of GPL v3, only to come out now that GPL v3 is defined to say they will stick to CDDL for OpenSolaris and for now GPL...
- Tags: Windows, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, Red Hat, Patents, Open Source, Microsoft, Linux, Intellectual Property, IBM, GPL, Enterprise Java, Apache
- Blog posts 2007-06-30
- The era of open source negotiation
- It is just possible the latest exchange of notes between Jonathan Schwartz and Linus Torvalds signals the start of a new era in business.Call it the era of open source negotiation.Taking the notes at face value, Linus has concerns about Sun's strategy as well as GPL V. 3, and Schwartz...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems, Strategy, management, Linux, Legal, GPL, General, FOSS, Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- What's the best defense for open source?
- The OSBC is in San Francisco this week, worrying over defending against Microsoft patent claims.Our own Ed Burnette was intrigued by hints in Jonathan Schwartz' blog this week that Sun Microsystems might help defend Ubuntu and Red Hat, if push came to shove.Interesting given that Sun isn't even a member...
- Tags: Applications, Distributions, documentation, Enterprise Policy, Events, Implementations, Legal, Microsoft, Patents, Strategy, Sun Microsystems
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Sun's plans need political help
- Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has a cunning plan.He wants to license Java FX to phone companies so they can enable Internet access on phones costing as little as $30.I like it. There are only two problems. First, its phone manufacturers who will license the technology, not phone companies. Second, cellular...
- Tags: General, Government, GPL, Hardware, Internet, mobile, politics, Sun Microsystems, wireless
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Sun plans developer-focused, on-demand application grid services
- Before the end of the year, Sun Microsystems will follow the lead of Amazon and Microsoft in providing a "pay as you drink" applications hosting service that provides a lifecycle approach to new web application development and deployment.In addition to announcing JavaFX Script, a lightweight programming language for creating rich...
- Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SaaS, Open Source, Mobile, Microsoft Live, Java, Internet, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, datacenters, convergence, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Happy Sun Day
- My best friend in England is a fan of the soccer team Sheffield Wednesday, which plays most games on Saturday.So despite this being Tuesday, I hereby proclaim it Sun Day. As in Sun Microsystems.Fulfilling the promises of CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Sun today released new versions of its Java Development Kit...
- Tags: Development, Distributions, General, java, Sun Microsystems
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Schwartz and Sun going all-in on open source
- Business Week reports that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is preparing to announce that Suns Solaris operating system will soon be available under the GPL. With the decision on GPL Java already made, its clear that, in poker parlance, Schwartz is going "all-in" on the open source concept. Schwartz first hinted...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems, Strategy, Hardware, GPL, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- SOA consolidation takes on new stripes, while extending to open source-oriented vendors
- IONA Technologies purchase today of LogicBlaze -- while directed at the open-source development and business models for SOA -- also further demonstrates the prevailing diversity of SOA consolidation activities. There seem to be as many variations on the SOA consolidation theme nowadays as there are vendors lining up to provide...
- Tags: Sybase, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Progress Software, JBoss, IONA, Cape Clear, Apache, Wall Street, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, SOA Governance, Red Hat, Oracle, Open Source, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Enterprise Java, Celtix
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- There's little chance Eclipse will suffer the same mistakes as Java
- Colleague and frequent SOA Insights Edition contributor Tony Baer at OnStrategies has a nice context analysis of recent Eclipse Foundation news, and he wonders if Eclipse may be extending itself too thinly. He says this would follow the mistakes of the waning role of the Java Community Process JCP.I think...
- Tags: Programming languages, Java development tools, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Eclipse
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Oracle cozies up to Spring developers by making EJB runtime open source under Eclipse
- Oracle has moved its TopLink Essentials Java persistence API set into the Eclipse Foundation community, the first time Oracle has overseen a runtime project with Eclipse -- and an indication that Oracles Java contribution days are numbered, if not over.Interestingly, TopLink, which was acquired by Oracle when WebGain disbanded several...
- Tags: Apache, Oracle, Java, GPL, Intellectual Property, Web Services, Sun Microsystems, Developer Tools, Eclipse, IDEs, Software Development, SOA, Microsoft, Enterprise Java, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- SOA analysts examine TIBCO's SOA tools, ESBs as platform, webMethods Fabric 7, HP's foray into BI
- Read a full transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 9, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine TIBCOs latest SOA tools news, the role of ESBs as...
- Tags: .NET, database, datacenters, HP, IBM, Interarbor Solutions, Microsoft, Oracle, Podcasts, SOA, SOA Governance, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems, Virtualization, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
- SAMP makes sense for Sun
- Suns transformation into an open source company continued today with its launch of what it calls a SAMP stack.SAMP consists of the three most popular open source application projects -- Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP -- on top of Solaris Express, a developer version of the Solaris 10 OpenSolaris project.When CEO Jonathan...
- Tags: Applications, Development, Distributions, General, management, Sun Microsystems
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Novel music search project creates method for intrinsic, not semantic, classifications
- Read the full transcript.Musical tastes are not easy to classify with just a few tags. What gets one persons foot tapping and their heart thumping is not going to win over their cousin necessarily. Moods also swing or swoon to a fickle beat, and the music you may want to...
- Tags: Home, Mobile, Podcasts, Sun Microsystems, Intellectual Property, search, Google, music
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Gillmor-speak gets redacted into minutiae-as-clarity, for once
- Theres this great blog interpretation/expose by Joel Spolsky where he redacts Steve Gillmors latest blog post, which is ostensibly about Jonathan Schwartz recent blogs. Dave Winers, too, I guess.But, because the post is pure Steve, nothing is ever quite as it seems: Hey, there goes an eight-foot white rabbit down...
- Tags: Intellectual Property, Sun Microsystems, Podcasts
- Blog posts 2006-12-23
- What makes Second Life eerily powerful is the zero-distance between thinkers and technology
- It took about an hour before I finally switched from thinking that my initial experiences with Second Life were a waste of time -- to actually finding them being productive in new ways.I was one of a 3D flurry of invited "VIPs" on Friday to enter an IBM pavilion inside...
- Tags: IBM Corp., SOA, Software Development, IBM, Web Services, SaaS, Sun Microsystems, Virtualization, Internet, Second Life, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
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