As the new Mac platform is going to be based on x86 architecture, Jonathan Schwartz, executive VP at Sun, offers Apple the chance to use Open Solaris, available for x86 platform as the new OS for Macs…
JavaOne 2005 day 1 annoucements
Sun have announced today at day 1 of JavaOne 2005 that they will be open sourcing the new release of Java System Application Server Platform 9.0, indicating their commitment to the open source community.
Also being offered as open source is Java ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), an implementation of the Java Business Integration spec, JSR208, to support SOA based architectures.
Other annoucements today:
- Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE), 5.0, the successor to J2EE 1.4 api spec. Sun have also released their Application Server 9.0 based on the Java EE 5.0 spec, as the Reference Implementation).
- I expect EJB3.0 with the long awaited and enhanced (as it should have been from day one) Entity Bean spec, based closely on Hibernate, will be part of the Java EE 5.0 platform.
- A preview of new features of the Java SE 6.0 release expected next year, with new Windows ‘Longhorn’ look and feel, revamped XML stack, improved support for annotations, and dynamic scripting language support. All of these are currently avaialble as source code to be downloaded from java.net
PS3 developer kit hardware?
Is this really the early PS3 developer kit hardware?
I’ll need to find some more room in the living room to accomodate this monster of a machine 🙂
Could OS/2 be open sourced?
OS/2, the operating system developed by IBM (and initially with Microsoft in the early days before Microsoft took some of the kernel code and build Windows NT on top of it), may be due for a come back, if a group of enthusiasts at OS/2 World have their way.
<a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22793
“>The online OS/2 community is petitioning to have have IBM release the source code for OS/2 as open source. Whether this will actually happen is anyone’s guess. OS/2 was initially a far superior operating system and far more stable that Windows 3.x available at the same time, but IBM never managed to get the marketing right to capture a sufficient market share, and instead were steamrollered by the marketing juggernaught of Microsoft.