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The Saga Called Java and the Mac.

The Macintosh has always been unique in terms of software, ever since it came out in 1984. From the now almost disappeared ‘Resource Fork’ of MFS/HFS, the pascal slant of Mac OS releases up until the early 1990s, the multiple architectural and design transitions, the Carbon/Cocoa duality of early Mac OS X, ‘Classic’ and ‘Rosetta’, […]

The Document Foundation

The greatest news for the project-formerly-known-as OpenOffice.org, since it became free software a decade ago. Let's hope that the new maintainers/leaders of the project and the commercial 'supporters' listed on the web site will make LibreOffice a worthy competitor in the age of cloud computing, SaaS and Google's impending dominance (viz. Google Apps) of the market.

Oracle Buys Sun. Sigh.

This is probably one of the worst conclusions to a saga that lasted for several years and was followed closely by so many people; yes, it’s true that Sun has been slowly, but steadily, disappearing from the radar as a major player in this industry, but it has also continued to innovate all the while […]