Tag sunmicrosystems

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 […]

Dalvik: The new name of Sun's worst nightmares.

An excellent article about Java on Android, Sun's licensing trickery, Google's checkmate the slanted meaning of Openness. A must read. Also read this for a retrospective view of the open sourcing of Java one year ago.