The CTO of Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, Lew Tucker, and Sun's Sr. VP, Cloud Computing and Developer Platforms and Chief Sustainability Officer, Dave Douglas, were both speaking this morning in New York about "Communities and Clouds." Douglas, who is also keynoting at SYS-CON's ...

In a deal that would significantly bolster IBM's position as the world's largest server maker, the Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that IBM is willing to pay $6.5BN in cash to acquire Sun Microsystems.

Cloud computing, Sun reminds the industry on its corporate web site devoted to the subject, "is about managing petascale data" - and its server and storage systems are all designed "to radically improve the data-intensive computing emerging in the cloud." All without having to invest i...

Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz has been reviewing Sun's three major strategic imperatives, and the company's progress going in to its next fiscal year. As industry blogs go, the three entries he's produced so far are miniature masterpieces.

This paper by Fiorano presents a performance analysis of publish/subscribe messaging throughput of FioranoMQ, SonicMQ, TIBCO EMS and ActiveMQ. This analysis provides a head-to-head comparison of these products designed to illustrate the products' relative performance characteristics fo...

Join the live Webcast for an exclusive look at IBM's latest innovations from IBM System x and BladeCenter. IT professionals in small and medium businesses, branch offices, and large enterprises will benefit by adopting IBM System x and BladeCenter's next generation hardware portfolio. ...

ESRI's release of ArcGIS Business Analyst Server 9.3 brings an enterprise solution for collaborative business geographics to the marketplace. It enables the creation, sharing, and deployment of workflows and analysis across entire organizations, allowing for more sophisticated business...

Tidal Software has announced a development agreement with SAP AG to integrate the Tidal Intelligent Automation Platform with the SAP Solution Manager application lifecycle management solution. This integration is intended to reduce meantime-to-resolution (MTTR) of issues that impact bu...

In early September of '08, I did realized that something was very wrong with the economy. Back then, we’ve deposited a check from one of our customers, a very large enterprise. A week later, we’ve got the message from the bank - the check bounced. That company went belly up.

In the agile community there are many different opinions about the value of automated testing. While many argue about automation's place in agile, the business realities of geographic separation, multiple teams, and limited resources dictate a more pragmatic approach. The process of so...

Fifteen years ago, when a New York company needed a programmer, it would publish an ad in the classified section of Sunday edition of New York Times. The paper would charge by column/inch. The ads were short and up to the point. Only big guys like IBM, Microsoft or Oracle could afford ...

In possibly the coolest concept I've seen in a long time Ilya Grigorik founder and CTO of AideRSS, has come up with an intriguing idea to implement Google's Map/Reduce algorithm in a browser via HTTP & Javascript.

Commercial systems are developed with a huge range of performance requirements and we are concerned in this article with the small number of systems where absolute maximum performance is demanded either in terms of execution speed or available memory. We'll discuss the role of bespoke ...

Faced with the demands of mission-critical applications, many enterprise developers have pushed the Java language and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to the limit. The most common issue seen in transactional environments is achieving predictable response time or latency - in other words...

"At Sun, we're planning on maintaining Java's ubiquity as the number one runtime environment, backed by the world's most price performant datacenter infrastructure, all powered by Sun's cloud." That, in no uncertain terms, is Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's vision for Java and stresses the...

Spime has released JSR-293, a standard API to access mapping, geocoding, reverse geocoding, navigation and POI content and services. Spime’s implementation of JSR 293 is compliant with the Java Community Process, and provides standardized access to LBS services from Java ME application...

Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans Community announced new third-party support for the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE). These new modeling, business intelligence and mobile application development partner offerings continue to enhance the productivity and choice that d...

O3SIS AG has announced the launch of its new Device Client Suite. Based on OMA DS (SyncML), Java and IP-Push industry standards, the brand new Clients enable users to synchronize all types of multimedia contents from and to mobile devices. The Clients also fully support Push Mail capab...

Sun Microsystems announced the availability of the JavaFX Mobile platform, enabling the Java wireless ecosystem to create expressive solutions, which leverage the power and ubiquity of the Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME). The JavaFX Mobile platform delivers rich content and servi...

The goal of this article is to demo a sample Pet Store application written in JavaFX 1.0. I work for a company called Farata Systems. Laura is our office manager, and she doesn’t know Java. Everyone else does. We work in the enterprise RIA space using Adobe Flex as a main development ...

As a competitive edge and a user enticement, Sun has created a broad, integrated, pre-tested open source stack around the GlassFish web server. The widgetry is called the GlassFish Portfolio and is supposed to lower TCO as well as improve overall price/performance and speed time-to-mar...

Sun Microsystems announced the release of Sun GlassFish Portfolio, the open source Web platform based on GlassFish. Built on open source projects including Apache Tomcat, Ruby, PHP, Liferay Portal and GlassFish, the Sun GlassFish Portfolio packages these components into an open source ...

JavaBlackBelt, a leader in Java learning and now powered by over 50,000 developers in its European community, today announced the opening of its web 2.0-based Java skills management services to enterprises in the US and India. Specifically, it has reached agreement with Boston-based G...

Ray Roxas-Chua leads the Philippines government's information and communications technology (ICT) initiatives. In the wake of the Satyam scanda in Inida, it seems the potential to outsource to the Philippines instead has grown. I interviewed him in late 2008. The interview occurred bef...

Ideum has announced the release of a ruggedized multi-touch, multi-user table built specifically for museums. The MT Table supports multi-touch and multi-user interactions. It has a 50" (diagonal) surface with a high resolution 1280 x 720 display. The large display also makes it easie...

KonaKart v 3.2.0.0 is a new release of the java eCommerce shopping cart software which now includes multi-store, fast indexed searching, Liferay and Google Base integration and much more.

McObject® has released Perst™ 4.0, the latest upgrade of its open source, object-oriented embedded database for Java and .NET. Version 4.0 greatly expands Perst’s usefulness in a broad range of applications by enabling it to add persistence to any object—including objects created by ot...

Caché is a high-performance object database that is ideal for providing data persistence to Java applications. Caché eliminates object/relational mapping, which shortens development time and boosts runtime performance. Caché gives you several options for persisting data, allowing you t...

In this White Paper, Bluenog explains the benefits of SOA, and how Service-Oriented Architecture can meet business challenges by helping to reduce development costs. The pressure to reduce the costs of operations and future development has become a fact of life for today’s financial se...

Sun lost $209 million, 28 cents a share, in the December quarter, half way through its fiscal year, because of a $222 million restructuring charge that it’s taking to cover the firing of those 5,000-6,000 people, the 15%-18% of its workforce it vowed to terminate back in November. The ...

SoftSlate is pleased to release version 3.0 of SoftSlate Commerce, a flexible shopping cart program written purely in Java and JSP. The focus of this major upgrade has been on revamping the application's web-based administration with non-technical users in mind. Now, managing an online...

Instantiations and SureAvenue, a solution provider for system consultation and system development, have announced an official reseller relationship. Under terms of the agreement, SureAvenue is exclusively licensed to resell Instantiations' GUI development, quality improvement, and soft...

Sun Microsystems announced that SAP has signed a multi-year agreement with Sun to provide Java Platform Standard Edition for Business (Java SE for Business) to its customers using the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. This will allow SAP customers to continue using Java SE 1.4.2 on bo...

When a product a colleague worked on recently shipped its first generally available release, the event was accompanied by a marketing fanfare of podcasts, press releases, and conference trips to beautiful cities with boxes of presentation materials, branded lapel pins, and flashing fri...

Three Pillar Software concluded 2008 with a strategic merger and a tactical acquisition designed to provide the company with significantly enhanced infrastructure and consulting services. According to Three Pillar CEO David DeWolf, the merger with Firefly allows Three Pillar to go to m...

Sun Microsystems announced it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds. The Q-layer organization, based in Belgium, will become part of Sun's Cloud Computing business unit. The Q-layer technology simp...

From today's integrated J2EE applications through the emergence of service-oriented architectures (SOA), enterprise Web applications are becoming more complex, dynamic, and vital to business success. The payoff is huge, but so are the new risks that have materialized. IT teams have an ...

Project Insight has announced the release of version 8.0 with an interactive Gantt chart, an updated interface, and additional shortcuts for navigation. Project Insight helps project teams collaborate on project schedules, share documents and assets, allocate project resources, and run...

Active Endpoints has announced that it has made available a new learning tool for Java developers in the form of a complete and fully documented service-oriented architecture (SOA) application, written in ActiveVOS. The "Vintage Old Stock" application automates a fictional classic car ...

Only if you were on the dark side of the moon could you have missed the impact of the iPhone. Its sweeping success has brought mobile services into the mainstream. As the first device to convincingly integrate traditional phone capabilities with Web access, it highlights the multi-chan...