Gosling - now a fellow at Sun Microsystems - is one of the most important figures in the world of programming. In an exclusive video interview with silicon.com, Gosling denied that Sun, which owns the rights to Java, is acting in its own commercial...
When the acquisition was first announced in November 1998, AOL also announced a three-year strategic development and marketing alliance with Sun Microsystems. Despite the insistence of an iPlanet spokesperson at the time of the staff cuts that the...
The Finnish company is also revamping developer access to application programming interfaces (APIs) and is joining forces with other handset makers and Sun Microsystems to streamline software certification for products.
Oracle was number two, with 68 per cent viewing the company's technology favorably in regard to interoperability. Hewlett-Packard and Linux supporters such as Red Hat were tied for fifth place with 55 per cent viewing them favourably.
For its own development work, Oracle is switching from Sun Microsystems computers, he said. Now the transformation has begun for those who work on the database product, said Wim Coekaerts, director of Linux engineering, in an interview at the CeBit...
The only disappointment was that Red Hat didn't raise guidance for its future cash flow, she said. The company also offered guidance for the current quarter, which ends in November, that exceeds analysts' current forecasts.