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Daily Dose - Translating the PR-Speak in Oracle's Reply to the ASF

Over the last two days the back-and-forth over TCKs continued between Apache and Oracle.  Stephen Colebourne, a certified Java Champion, knows this issue very...

0 replies - 22677 views - 11/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Hudson Creator Joins CloudBees

After the creator of the popular, open source Hudson continuous integration tool left Oracle, he started his own company, InfraDNA, to continue Hudson...

0 replies - 19036 views - 11/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Oracle to Sell "Premium" JVM

Tweets coming out of the weekend's QCon conference revealed Oracle's plan for a premium JVM that comes with a price tag.  Adam Messinger, the Oracle VP of...

4 replies - 23990 views - 11/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - First Release of OpenStack is Out

The OpenStack project for open source, interoperable cloud computing and storage controllers has just released its first public version, codenamed...

1 replies - 15744 views - 10/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Spring Web Flow 2.2 GA

The final release of Spring Web Flow 2.2 is here bringing JSF 2.0 support and Portlet 2.0 support.  This version of Spring Web Flow implements Dojo 1.5,...

0 replies - 19373 views - 10/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - ZFS Finally Getting Data Encryption

Sun/Oracle developers have been working on bringing cryptography functions to ZFS, and now Oracle is announcing that this feature will likely be included in...

0 replies - 15809 views - 10/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Mono 2.8 - New GC, C# 4.0, and LLVM

Ten months worth of development has brought plenty of major updates and new features to the open source implementation of the .NET framework, Mono.  Today,...

0 replies - 7967 views - 10/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - Chromium OS on the iPad

A developer who provides nightly Chromium builds has managed to port Google's Chromium OS to the iPad.  He posted a picture of the iPad's web page running in...

0 replies - 20814 views - 09/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - ZFS Creator Leaves Oracle

Jeff Bonwick, the software engineer who led the team that created ZFS, is leaving his position as an Oracle VP.  In his blog, Bonwick gave no sign of rancor...

1 replies - 15458 views - 09/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Lift Raised to the Next Level

The Scala-based web framework, Lift, has reached version 2.1 with a few new features to add to the large list from 2.0.  The support is now tighter for the...

0 replies - 16725 views - 09/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Google Code Allows More Licenses

Taking a page from the book of SourceForge today, Google has announced that it is now accepting all open source licenses approved by the Open Source...

0 replies - 9337 views - 09/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Daily Dose - Windows Phone 7 Launch is Oct. 11 Say Sources

According to several anonymous sources, allegedly from Microsoft, the GA launch of the Windows Phone 7 OS is scheduled for October 11th.  Pocket-lint said it...

0 replies - 18854 views - 09/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Android Doesn't Count Upgrades as Activations Either

Google responded to Steve Jobs' implications at the iPod/Apple TV/iOS presentation this week.   At the presentation he said that Apple estimates about 230k...

0 replies - 22749 views - 09/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Adobe's McAllister Speaks Out Against Oracle

In a recent blog entry, Adobe's open source and standards director David McAllister remarked that “the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or...

0 replies - 22279 views - 08/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Growing Faith in Open Source, But Few Give Back

The days of enterprises fearing what they don't have to pay for are coming to an end.  Two recent surveys on open source adoption show that open source...

0 replies - 15265 views - 08/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles