This article on TheServerSide.com discusses the recent announcents regarding EJB3.0 changes and support for POJO persistence, and also the big players voting down the JSR for JDO2.0, due to overlap with ‘other interests’, namely at the time the upcoming EJB3.0 recommentdations.
Bruce Tate’s observations on development of the EJB spec and its future
Bruce Tate makes an amusing analogy between the EJB spec and hunting elephants in this article.
Good comments here about how early adopters felt forced (and still do?) to take on all that the EJB spec offered, even though it was probably not the best fitting solution.
Summary of J2SE 1.5 new features
Google GMail raise the bar with offer of a terrabyte of free email storage
In a recent battle of increasing free storage quotas on free web mail accounts, Google’s controversial GMail service has raised the bar far beyond anyone else so far (Lycos, 1GB, Yahoo – 100MB) and is offering a trial configuration of 1,000,000MB or a terrabyte of free storage with some email accounts.
Just quite what people are going to use that amount of storage for is still questionable. With that amount of storage you could back up 4 of the largest hard drives (250GB?) to your email account.
More info online here.