Evans Data research company has a report from a survey in Europe and Middle East and shows that the number of developers currently using development tools such as PHP and Perl on a Linux platform is slowing declining. The research company is speculating that these developer are moving to Java instead.
IBM donate effort to help with Apache Geronimo project
Since IBM puchased the company Gluecode, they now have a vested interest in seeing Geronimo succeed. Gluecode is a pacakger and promoter of Geronimo, and develop a set of management tools that make administration of a Geronimo server easier.
Yahoo’s search index now larger than Google?
Yahoo are claiming that they now have an index for their search engine which covers 20.8 billion pages. This is larger than the previously known largest claim by Google of 11 billion.
Getting started with JDO
Despite the ongoing development and momentum building with EJB3.0 and it’s radically simplified persistence approach (similar to Hibernate), the JDO spec is also still alive and kicking as another alternative.
Sun have an article on their site giving an overview and quick introduction to JDO along with code examples.