Oracle’s hostile takeover bid for Peoplesoft has come to an end as Peoplesoft’s board accepted $26.50/share, or roughly $10billion in total cost to Oracle.
Nvidia in deal with Sony to produce graphics processor for Playstation3
Sony and Nvidia have announced that they have been working together for the past 2 years on developing the graphics processor for the upcoming Playstation3, due to be released next year.
This may also be the reason the Microsoft announced some time ago (last year?) that they were dropping Nvidia in favour for ATI to supply the graphics processor for the new XBox2.
The role of the graphics processor in the PS3 is unclear at this point, as it is already known that the Sony/IBM/Toshiba designed and produced Cell processor which is going to be at the heart of the PS3 is going to incorporate advanced processor capabilities for processing vector graphics and graphics processing.
IBM sell PC business to Chinese company
IBM has annouced that they are selling their PC business to a Chinese company, Lenovo.
IBM have stated that the PC business has become more like selling appliances, and does not fit with their strategy for technology innovation
Running multiple apps under the same JVM with JDistro
OnJava.com have an interview with the developers of JDisto, an app that allows multiple Java apps to run together in the same JVM instance.
The main benefit of this is to avoid the overhead of each app running in its own memory hungry JVM. However, with the tendency of large Java desktop apps to hang and crash after a period of time (IBMs WSAD and DB2 client tools come to mind), I wonder how stable this environment is in practice? Can they isolate one app from another so one hanging app doesn’t effect another?