Open FAIR certification launched
The Open Group today announced the new Open FAIR Certification Program aimed at risk analysts, bringing a much-needed professional certification to the market.
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Sun waits out Microsoft, gets some interoperability bang after all
The biggest shift is not that Microsoft is doing away with the roach motel, it's just that they are not so much concerned with the client any more -- they want (and must) preserve the roach motel on the server. And that means Microsoft needs partners, because the relationship between the virtualized hardware means that multi-core, multi-thread hardware (and the interplay between binary-level software and parallelism) counts more than ever.
Genuitec, Eclipse aim for developer kit to smooth rendering of RIAs on mobile devices
The two tool frameworks will enable mobile web developers to visualize and debug mobile web applications from within an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE). Beyond this the FireFly project will develop next-generation technologies and frameworks to support the creation of mobile web applications that look and behavior similarly to native applications and are able to interact with device services such as GPS, accelerometers and personal data.
Sun refuses to give up on software acquisitions, buys MySQL for $1 billion
We knew that Sun has been lusting after a real software business in addition to Solaris. We knew that Sun "shares" -- that it digs open source, including Solaris and Java. And we knew that Sun had a love-hate relationship with Oracle and a hate-hate relationship with IBM.
Get a load of the new mortar for open source bricks
Having automated configuration and installers, coupled with monitoring, remote management and remediation, will go a long way to making IT managers embrace open source solutions.
TIBCO scores on open source and debugging RIAs in one fell swoop
JavaScript and AJAX applications have been inherently difficult to debug, as TIBCO points out. TIBCO is ramping up with AJAX offerings, and making them look good and easy to enjoy, via open source, for lots of developers. This RIA strategy fits nicely with the back-end SOA stuff TIBCO is producing, making it number 2 in SOA supplies behind IBM, according to recent research by Gartner. The road to SOA is paved with good intentions?
It's IBM's Move: More musings on the Oracle Unbreakable Linux flap
If Oracle is going after the model, and not the company, then IBM -- and again, oddly, the other global systems integrators -- will need to come to open source's ... errr, Red Hat's, aid. Their future is services, even as Oracle bets that it can live on business applications licenses long enough to hollow-out the open source business model.
Java may be free under GPL -- but end-to-end development remains the holy grail
Several new Eclipse-based projects are emerging that provide a strong framework for device development, and the theme is a common framework everywhere. Indeed, the mash-up of open source Java and Eclipse is very exciting. This new Eclipse activity augments and burnishes the Java ME platform, especially as its runtime (if not the community and tools) go GPL open.
Entrepreneur-itis bites again as Marc Fleury leaves Red Hat
"I have done what I can to help Red Hat succeed. People need to understand that Open Source is a tsunami that is transforming the software industry in its wake and its inevitability is now well beyond challenge or the force of individual personality." He will now apparently pursue other personal interests, such as teaching, research in biology, music and his family. That is until his non-compete is up and the entrepreneur bug stirs anew, I suspect.
Ambiguity over open sourcing Java only serves Sun's detractors
Sun is Sun, Java is Java. So be it.