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 - 14473 views - 07/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
There's reason to celebrate today as SQLite 3.7 is released in GA. The lightweight, ubiquitous database includes some game-changing new features, which have...
0 replies - 7435 views - 07/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
0 replies - 1880 views - 06/24/10 by Pavel Trka in Uncategorized
Cloudera and Quest Software are building a free software link between Oracle RDBMS and Hadoop. The bi-directional connector, code-named "Ora-Oop",...
0 replies - 4064 views - 06/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Although this "100 day" release of GlassFish 3.0.1 is relatively minor, there are several features that make this version noteworthy. First,...
0 replies - 14559 views - 06/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
CollabNet, the company that donated Subversion to the Apache Foundation late last year, is now introducing a new distribution of the Subversion SCM called...
0 replies - 13108 views - 06/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
0 replies - 5348 views - 05/20/10 by Chris Baughman in Book Reviews
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 - 14157 views - 05/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The Google App Engine 1.3.4 prerelease went live this weekend with authentication capabilities for apps. Applications will be able to authenticate with Open...
0 replies - 14746 views - 05/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
"Software freedom matters, and I intend to prove it." That was the bold statement that Simon Phipps, the former Chief Open Source Officer at Sun...
0 replies - 7291 views - 05/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Sun's open source desktop virtualization application for x86 hardware, VirtualBox, is getting an extreme makeover under Oracle. With some slight re-branding...
1 replies - 10093 views - 04/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The fourth generation iPhone was found in a Redwood City bar about a week ago and is now in the hands of Gizmodo, who reported on the story. All signs...
0 replies - 17829 views - 04/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The first release candidate for the Scala 2.8 JVM language has been announced. 2.8 will be a major revision that will not be binary-compatible with the 2.7...
2 replies - 13717 views - 04/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Over a month ago, Oracle executive Dan Roberts tried to dispel rumors about the 'death' of OpenSolaris: "Oracle will continue to make OpenSolaris...
0 replies - 3852 views - 04/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
"Within a few weeks," says one report, Adobe will drop the lawsuit-bomb on Apple for locking out their Flash-to-iPhone compiler in the revised...
6 replies - 15213 views - 04/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
