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Oracle, Java, JavaFX, OpenOffice, and Thinkfree Office – competing with Google Apps Premier Edition

August 5, 2009

When Larry Ellison spoke at JavaONE this year, he mentioned the importance of Java, JavaFX and OpenOffice for Oracle’s strategy around the merger with Sun.
“We encourage the OpenOffice group to quickly build their version of a spread sheet or a word app using JavaFX.”
And as the Channel Register reports:
The CEO has also made it clear [...]

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OpenSolaris ported to ARM processor cores

July 14, 2009

SUN announced that the ongoing effort of porting OpenSolaris to the ARM processor platform has lead to a first release of OpenSolaris for ARM. The first release supports NEC Electronics’s NaviEngine 1 (NE1). NaviEngine 1 is a powerful single-chip system LSI solution optimized for car navigation systems. Based on four high-speed CPU cores using the ARM [...]

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OpenSolaris 09.06 executive booklet published by Chip India

July 12, 2009
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Jim Grisanzio points to a publication by CHIP computer magazine in India: an OpenSolaris 09.06 executive booklet has been created in an effort to make OpenSolaris better known in the Indian IT industry. Kumar Abishek reports in his blog:
OpenSolaris has been a hot topic in India for quite some time now and in the month [...]

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JavaFX TV – Write Once, Run Anywhere, or Java on TV 3.0

July 10, 2009

When a Canadian working for SUN in 1991 ended up with the task of writing a new compiler for a programming language, he would never imagine the software development revolution he triggered with his work: the entrance of Java into the world of software development, and the Canadian was James Gosling. Meant for set-top-box development, [...]

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Toshiba notebooks with OpenSolaris pre-installed

July 5, 2009

Toshiba in cooperation with Sun Micrososystems offers notebooks with OpenSolaris pre-installed. Based on my little experience with OpenSolaris I got the impression that it’s one of the best operating systems available today, especially with developers using open source technologies like Java, MySQL, PHP, Ruby, RoR, Tomcat, Glassfish and many of the common open source web [...]

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JavaFX 1.1 with JavaFX Mobile enters RIA market

February 15, 2009

In what seemed to be surprise to some of us Sun released JavaFX 1.1, which includes JavaFX Mobile. Long expected, much awaited, Java makes a come-back on mobile devices with “JavaFX to-go”. JavaFX 1.1 can be dowloaded here, and some more information (videos, tutorials) are available on this page. As expected, the company announced a number [...]

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JavaFX road map – will Sun open source JavaFX?

December 31, 2008

Since the announcement of JavaFX at JavaONE 2007 I wondered if Sun will at some point decide to open source the JavaFX technology. In the past years Sun has turned into one of the strongest supporters of the open source software development model. Probably one of the best decisions Sun’s management ever made, and the [...]

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Sun releases JavaFX 1.0

December 6, 2008

This week Sun released version 1.0 of JavaFX technology. After the initial announcement of JavaFX at Java ONE 2007 we’ve been waiting long to see the release of JavaFX.

Through my work at Laszlo and David Temkin I had heard about Chris Oliver’s F3 project. F3 looked very promising, and I thought it was amazing to see what [...]

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