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2006 JavaOne is rapidly approaching – since EJB3.0 has been bubbling away on the burner for the last couple of years, will we see the JSR220 spec finalised in time for this year’s JavaOne?
java.sun.com have a list of some of the ‘must see’ sessions scheduled for this year at this link here.
Scott McNealy has stepped down as CEO of Sun Microsystems, after 22 years. He will be replaced by President, Jonathan Schwartz.
Sun’s stock has long been bumping along at the $3 – 4 dollar level for the last few years, and I hope Schwartz has what it takes to bring the company back to profitability. For a company that has done so much for software development in terms of creating Java and being a steward for it’s evolution, it’s about time they starting reaping the rewards of their efforts.
The current thinking for the 'next new trend' is web-delivered applications. Not your typical online apps that we have today, but office apps – word processing, spreadsheets.
Microsoft have already annouced that this is the direction they are heading in, and so might others be, expecially if Google's purchase of the company behind web-based word processor 'Writely' is any indication.
Silicon Valley Sleuth in this blog post is thinking that Google has what it takes to beat Microsoft at it's own game.
The Red Hat buyout of JBoss certainly was a surprise to most. And there has already been plenty discussed all over the web about whether it is a good move for Red Hat and/or JBoss. I just wish them all the best and hope it works out. I think JBoss have produced awesome software and have done great things for Open Source. Red Hat have also done great things in packaging Linux for the masses.
There have been some very interesting posts though this week, digging up some internet history. Firstly, Marc really did paint a great picture in this post on the JBoss Blog this week.
To hear what Marc really thinks about Red Hat, TheRegister managed to pull up this absolute gem of a blog post from Marc Fleury in September 2004, discussing the merits of Red Hat: “RH is a packager, it doesn’t create JACK, it doesn’t create Linux, it wraps it up in proprietary shit.” This happens to be the best comment I’ve every heard someone say about their future employer 🙂
In case this link disappears, then The Internet Archive also have a copy of Marc’s thoughts preserved in time (scroll down to the Sept 28 article).
So, since JBoss is now owned by ‘open source girly men’, I wonder what he really thinks about Red Hat?