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An article in Wireless Business & Technology gives chapter and verse on this...it's written by the founder of 4Gwireless.org, who is also one of the prime movers behind a pioneering mesh-networking company.

"The absolute worst-case of this suit is IBM being fined."

oh? Tell me how can Linux survive if your employer could be sued for using it. If the court proves yes Unix code got into the Linux kernel then SCO has legalized extortion. The article above mentioned charges for all linux users. Wouldn't it be great for SCO if Redhat or Suse somehow went under? Well they can sue both companies for damages. IT does not matter whether they knew about the infringment or not. SCO by law would be entitled for compensation for services for every distro sold.

In other news Linux itself could be in jeapordy. I for one would not pay $149 per cpu to run a free os. I would switch to BSD in a second.

Also, none of them currently include a decent report creation tool.

Ahem... may I introduce Oracle Reports, the best enterprise reporting tool on the planet.

:-)

Tha American Scientist article claims that the event that first popularized the term "spam" was the simultaneous posting by the Phoenix law firm of Canter & Siegel to 6,000 Usenet news groups of a message with the subject heading "Green Card Lottery - Final One?" (in April 1994). But Brad Templeton has a VERY different story if he is saying here that spam will be 25 years old next Saturday - not nine. ("The earliest documented junk e-mailing I've uncovered was sent May 3, 1978 -- 25 years ago this Saturday.") This thread confirms, mind you, that the first time a USENET posting got *named* a "spam" happened on March 31, 1993 - so ten years ago last month is maybe right aFTER AL;L

Blue is definitely getting smarter and smarter in terms of both tactics and strategy, according to this article which more or less lays bare the entire marketing philosophy behind WebSphere for 2003.

Here's the URL actually in a link...

A unique- and better yet, free - Linux resource is LinuxGram, you never know what Maureen O'Gara's going to say, pretty outrageous stuff. And there's a new Linux publication to watch out for, due in Q2, looks very promising.

I recently posted a short article on this subject on SYS-CON's SYS-CON's Linux Business and Technology (the publishers of Java Developer's Journal). I think an even better article on Corporate open source adoption is the one in the March 15th issue of CIO magazine.

...said to Linux Business & Technology magazine: "What SCO is doing is ethically wrong and legally dubious. Their complaint rewrites and distorts history."

The author is maybe someone to watch: "Karl McCabe is chief technology officer at Rococo Software, a Dublin-based wireless Java company. Karl was formerly responsible for the development of the Java product line at IONA Technologies and he has worked in various technical roles at IONA and ICL. He has helped to build and deploy distributed systems for many Fortune 500 companies, and his current interest is in extending the reach of these systems out to mobile devices."

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In their WBT article "The Unwired soldier," authors Allen H. Kupetz and K. Terrell Brown introduce their concept of the 'Wal-Mart Soldier' and explain how "every soldier's communication device will be an individual network element with a unique IP address. All the network devices on the battlefield - including those embedded in tanks or other vehicles - will instantly form, heal, and update the network as users come and go. That is, they will associate in an ad hoc manner."

"But unlike cell-based solutions," the authors write, "network coverage and service levels will improve when soldier density increases. Network resources are also better utilized because networks are self-balancing as well. The soldier's subscriber device can hop to distant network access points, away from points of congestion, shifting network capacity to where the demand is."

Here's the really wild part, though: "Finally, this technology will function as a PAN (personal area network), a LAN (local area network), and a WAN (wide area network), simultaneously. This means that the same network can connect a soldier to the squad/platoon, to the battalion, and to a fully mobile division. This is critical to meeting the functionality requirements of the FCS program. It is the equivalent of Bluetooth, 802.11, and 3G converging, but in a single network, with a single device."

They also point out (before you ask!) that "The next-generation soldier's communication device has not yet been chosen. There are several DARPA/DoD projects operating simultaneously, all of which have a communications device component. These include the "Warfighter Information Network - Tactical" (WIN-T), "Future Combat Systems" (FCS - formerly known as Future Ground Combat Systems), "Small Unit Operations/Situational Awareness System" (SUO/SAS), and the "Joint Tactical Radio System - Programmable, Modular Communications System" (JTRS-PMCS)."

Miguel de Icaza himself says that the reason Mono is thriving is that "There are very very very hard parts in .NET...extremely hard"

As another CF programmer, I can definitavely tell you that it not A|J SP for dummies. It is quite a bit more powerful, scalable, faster to develop in, not to mention that yes, Virginia, it *does* run on Linux. Here's an interesting quote from DevCon...

At DevCon in October I discussed Web services in detail, and had the opportunity to demonstrate ColdFusion Web services being consumed by .NET (using C#) as well as .NET Web services being consumed by ColdFusion MX. One of the most blatantly obvious differences was the amount of code it took to consume a Web service - .NET is built around Web services technologies, and ColdFusion puts it to shame with something as simple as consuming a Web service (a .NET Web service at that) - one tag compared to pages of code. biased reference.

Of course, the people posting this are CF developers also, but true is true.

..and in Australia, according to this. The poster says Linux is pushing Windows, Unix and Apple operating systems off the desktops of Australian first-year IT students.

"Time to plug the huge hole in the email dike, my compadres"--that's the rallying cry made here by Jim Newhouse who says: "I've been on the Web with no change in current email address for about 7 years, and I now get about 50 spams a day. I expect that to rise to 100 by the end of 2003, 200 by 2004, well, you get the exponential picture."

me too: take a look at this.

Has anyone noticed that the "J2EE Editor" of Java Developer's Journal, for example, is saying that IBM is in his view strategically intent on becoming "Microsoft Two"...and that the whole process is moving faster than we developers seem to realize? He bases his view on having personally spoken with the SVP of IBM's Global Software Business. Sagar wonders who'll be next on IBM's shopping list: for example,will it be Sun?

Has anyone noticed that the "J2EE Editor" of Java Developer's Journal, for example, is saying that IBM is in his view strategically intent on becoming "Microsoft Two"...and that the whole process is moving faster than we developers seem to realize? He bases his view on having personally spoken with the SVP of IBM's Global Software Business. Sagar wonders who'll be next on IBM's shopping list: for example,will it be Sun?

FWIW: I believe that if you have programs that are going to be running for a good long while, the Java 1.4 VM -server option will optimize heavily-used code. I don't have my 4th-ed Java in a Nutshell handy, which is where I believe I read this.

As for Java performance, I think the best piece I have seen on it so far was a few months ago in Java Developer's Journal - The issue's archives page lists it as "Performance Tuning in Java" - but unfortunately you need to be a subscriber to access the archives, and I am not. There are of course a lot of steps you can take to make Java *relatively* fast, but I think prior posts covered most of those.

"JCP 2.5 breaks new ground by making open source licensing possible for those who work on Java specifications and those who create compatible independent implementations of the specifications," said Jason Hunter, vice-president, Apache Software Foundation and JCP Executive Committee member. "In addition the cost structure has been changed to allow smaller developer groups and individual developers to gain broader access to Java specifications, often times free of cost."

It may not be perfect, but at least it is fully open.

I am not sure about that comment. But McNealy does have Adolf's twinkle eyes =)

The only thing I know about them is that they claimed to be releasing an "AOL PC" which wouldn't actually run AOL. Now, I'm not much of a fan of AOL, but the only people really hurt by this deceptive marketing are regular users who are led to believe that the computer they're purchasing does something that it doesn't actually do. (article here)

Also, they did at some point claim that Lindows ran most windows applications well, when in fact it just runs a few of them badly. (article here)

Honestly, they sound like a bunch of unscrupulous business people who have been making inroads at retail chains largely by making ridicoulous claims to management types who don't know the difference. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them, and I certainly wouldn't give them any of my money. In fact, I'd really like to know why Slashdot gets so excited every time they do something--people like this aren't good for the Linux community.

"It was the first time that the GPL, the cornerstone of the open source and free software movements, had been dragged before the bar. [...]

In the process, a federal judge deemed the GPL enforceable and binding."

(Also, what's with XML-Journal's claim the article has three pages when it only has two?)

That's nothing. The real shocker comes on page 30000658765865786565876585865768735873987634576927 45746592745692734592375927345987263985726475629475 62975692765972634957623457629345769234756923745692 37465927459726923745692374659274597269237456923746 59274597269237456923746592745972692374569237465927 45972692374569237465927459726923745692374659274597 26923745692374659274597237342956237845987234695897 23469576293475972359723649578623948523984759273659 74659274692734659726349576234957623945762934756293 74567465927465792747569726479562987345982346985629 85762398475698760756098734986734876039760398476087 74567465927465792747569726479562987345982346985629 !

This is going to be big!

Has anyone read yet the cover story article in this month's Java Developer's Journal by Ian McFarland, president of Neo Ventures Ltd., a software consulting company in San Francisco, and author of Mastering Tomcat Development, available in September from Wiley?

The article's called "Building Installers for OS X" and McFarland writes that Java on OS X is "a first-class citizen."

A Java developer since release 1.0 alpha 2, McFarland apparently also maintains www.javaosx.com.

Has anyone read yet the cover story article in this month's Java Developer's Journal by Ian McFarland, president of Neo Ventures Ltd., a software consulting company in San Francisco, and author of Mastering Tomcat Development, available in September from Wiley?

The article's called "Building Installers for OS X" and McFarland writes that Java on OS X is "a first-class citizen."

A Java developer since release 1.0 alpha 2, McFarland apparently also maintains www.javaosx.com.

Has anyone read yet the cover story article in this month's Java Developer's Journal by Ian McFarland, president of Neo Ventures Ltd., a software consulting company in San Francisco, and author of Mastering Tomcat Development, available in September from Wiley?

The article's called "Building Installers for OS X" and McFarland writes that Java on OS X is "a first-class citizen."

A Java developer since release 1.0 alpha 2, McFarland apparently also maintains www.javaosx.com.

Has anyone read yet the cover story article in this month's Java Developer's Journal by Ian McFarland, president of Neo Ventures Ltd., a software consulting company in San Francisco, and author of Mastering Tomcat Development, available in September from Wiley?

The article's called "Building Installers for OS X" and McFarland writes that Java on OS X is "a first-class citizen."

A Java developer since release 1.0 alpha 2, McFarland apparently also maintains www.javaosx.com.

So what you're saying is that Java is a niche programming language and not some cure-all omniplatform technology.

I can buy that.

But then, why does the founder of the Java Lobby disagree with you and say that Java is dead on the client?

Don says that two years from now XML Web Services One won't happen. He's right: I've been hearing that Web Services Edge", on both coasts, has already taken over. Why else would Jonathan Schwartz be keynoting for them? Sun sees that XML's the only onion in the Web Services stew too, but he wants to speak at a show that will last for 5-7 years, not die after 2.

"Love of Linux" huh? Why don't you add that the piece also says he's in need of a publisher - clearly it ain't gonna be the SCO Group's Darl McBride!!

wow, who did they talk to I wonder? there's MUCH more detail here The explanation being offered by Linux Business Week is that McBride wants to recognize that 90% of its recent revenue has been coming from Unix operating systems that it bought from the old Santa Cruz Operation (SCO). Not Linux. This is a complete break with Ransom Love, who in his June /. interview, the then CEO of Caldera, Ransom Love, clearly had great visions for UnitedLinux and a strong sense of what the four founding companies could do in terms of rolling out a successful business distro of Linux.

In this article published just this morning that he's not going to be the new general manager of UnitedLinux either, depriving that organization of Love's leadership toward the goal of establishing Linux as the dominant application server platform used by mainstream businesses. If he's not going to be president and CEO of UnitedLinux LLC, then what next? Apparently he's going to write a book instead...somewhat predictably called: Love of Linux. Geddit?

wow, who did they talk to I wonder? there's MUCH more detail here The explanation being offered by Linux Business Week is that McBride wants to recognize that 90% of its recent revenue has been coming from Unix operating systems that it bought from the old Santa Cruz Operation (SCO). Not Linux. This is a complete break with Ransom Love, who in his June /. interview, the then CEO of Caldera, Ransom Love, clearly had great visions for UnitedLinux and a strong sense of what the four founding companies could do in terms of rolling out a successful business distro of Linux.

In this article published just this morning that he's not going to be the new general manager of UnitedLinux either, depriving that organization of Love's leadership toward the goal of establishing Linux as the dominant application server platform used by mainstream businesses. If he's not going to be president and CEO of UnitedLinux LLC, then what next? Apparently he's going to write a book instead...somewhat predictably called: Love of Linux. Geddit?

The Java Developer's Journal can be found here: http://www.sys-con.com/java/

Unfortunately one needs to pay a subscription fee to access the archives. :(

The guy is an admitted sensationalist...

"I purposely went a little over the top just to test the water." (second sentence of second paragraph)

...so take it for what it's worth.

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Maybe 50% incorrect. My point is that in-line cannot occur unless a method is final. Your quote says the same thing because if the optimizer "finds" a method that is used in a non-final way, it will be un-inlined. To me, this is just extra work for the optimizer. Yes, I read the rest of the white paper, but

I am not sold on Hot Spot because it degrades heavily under high loads. Check out JDJ article by Jeremy Lizt (p 66) for a fairly biased perspective. Notice how Hot Spot blows up with many concurrent users. We have observed similar degredation in performance on Solaris with Hot Spot. Food for thought.

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Just FYI, Apple's WebObjects won the Java Developer's Journal Reader's Choice Award for Best Application Server. Definitely worth a look.