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I will be at Nice again this year to enjoy the sights, the sounds and the smells of our industry’s principal trade show. TMW is a mix of the fascinating and the dull, the informative and the vacuous. It’s difficult to predict what will be of value and what won’t. Some keynotes offer a candid […]
Yesterday Oracle stepped in to purchase Sun for $7.4bn after IBM failed to secure a deal just over two weeks ago. The fortnight wait has earned Sun a tasty half-billion Dollars over IBMs last best offer. Oracle’s stake in Java has shot up in the last 15 months. They always had a fairly well received […]
Back, oooh, ages ago, I wrote about the top five OSS platform architecture things. Those where things (issues, concerns, designs, e.t.c.) that needed to be considered when delivering a new OSS product or project to ensure scalability and performance. Rarely does a new OSS application live in isolation. Integration with other systems in the OSS […]
All those cool technologies out there, I wonder how any young developer will have space for them on their two-page curriculum vitae. And it’s not just the quantity, it’s the names. Languages, operating systems and middleware used to have nice short names and acronyms. Concise, optimised, no more than four characters long. But now we […]