Ok, now this is just scary. From 2008, Microsoft are to be the sole supplier of ECUs (Engine Control Units) for Formula 1 cars. Given the reputation of Microsoft for supplying robust software, I don’t think I would want to get in one of those cars and drive 200mph knowing that Microsoft is controlling my engine. Actually, worse than this, if their software controlled the braking system, I don’t think they would ever pass the saftey tests..
Eclipse 3.2 now available
Eclipse 3.2 was released last week, along with a whole collection of developer tools and utilities, bundled together in a release called ‘Callisto’.
OnJava.com has a brief overview of some of the new features in the core Eclipse tool (the article doesn’t cover any of the additional IDE add-ons included in the Callisto bundle). The article covers some interesting history behind Eclipse and it’s origins, and highlights a couple of new features that make life easier for developers using Eclipse.
RedHat sued for JBoss Hibernate ORM technology
Firestar software are suing RedHat, the owner of JBoss and the Hibernate ORM technology, for infringing on it’s patent regarding Object Relational Mapping technology.
Analysts are speculating why they chose to single out RedHat, and why this point in time – ORM solutions have been around for a number of years. They could have chosen to go after Oracle for Toplink, a ORM solution they acquired from WebGain, or any one of a number of implementations of the now standardized JSR220 EJB3.0 Java Persistence API, which is based on Hibernate.
Sun CEO Schwartz to reveal how much it makes from Java
CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz, has stated that he will soon reveal how much Sun makes from selling Java related services. It has long been thought that Sun has missed a golden oportunity with Java for making some serious cash, and assumed by giving away Java for free it makes money from companies buying it’s hardware on which they run Java based systems. Schwartz did not give a date but will reveal the information soon.