Is not there a risk, that Sun one day will change it's license-policy for Java and start asking (huge) amount of money for (newer versions) of the Jdk packages, a bit like SCO does today? Thereby creating a problem for all thoses enterprises that have build applications on top of it? Either they pay the money or they are stucked in a dead-road.
Has there really been a court-case in Germany which stopped SCO from unproven claims about copyright violation in Linux - on the grounds of law against unfair/untruthful marketing?
I cannot find any articles on the internet about it, also not on german sites. Can the previous author provide some hyperlinks to such articles?
Two days ago, I asked Daniel Brookshier, author of articles and a book about JXTA (1), if JXTA-compliant collaboration software could become the platform of choice for socalled Global Issues Networks.
Global Issues Networks are proposed by Jean Francois Rischard, World Bank's vice-president for Europe, in solving the biggest worldproblems (2). Global Issues Networks start in Rischard's vision with a limit number of specialists, and should grow to many thousands of people in a few years time. In this networks people collaborate to define ways for solutions and should push governments in this directions. Global Issues Networks will need fast scaleable collaboration software-solutions.
I asked Daniel also how much time it will take to grow the technology?
His response: "Yes, indeed JXTA will work. I can't imagine it taking too long to develop either. The next release should add the final touches to the ID system to make collaboration much easier to implement. As far as scalability, I don't see any problems. As to platform of choice, I believe that JXTA is the only platform that makes sense. The closed networks like Groove do not cause innovation. Specialty networks like Gnutella just don't have the breadth of API to do collaboration".
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Is not there a risk, that Sun one day will change it's license-policy for Java and start asking (huge) amount of money for (newer versions) of the Jdk packages, a bit like SCO does today? Thereby creating a problem for all thoses enterprises that have build applications on top of it? Either they pay the money or they are stucked in a dead-road.
Has there really been a court-case in Germany which stopped SCO from unproven claims about copyright violation in Linux - on the grounds of law against unfair/untruthful marketing?
I cannot find any articles on the internet about it, also not on german sites. Can the previous author provide some hyperlinks to such articles?
Thanks in advance!
Cor
"Is this protocol (JXTA) going anywhere yet? "
Two days ago, I asked Daniel Brookshier, author of articles and a book about JXTA (1), if JXTA-compliant collaboration software could become the platform of choice for socalled Global Issues Networks.
Global Issues Networks are proposed by Jean Francois Rischard, World Bank's vice-president for Europe, in solving the biggest worldproblems (2). Global Issues Networks start in Rischard's vision with a limit number of specialists, and should grow to many thousands of people in a few years time. In this networks people collaborate to define ways for solutions and should push governments in this directions. Global Issues Networks will need fast scaleable collaboration software-solutions.
I asked Daniel also how much time it will take to grow the technology?
His response:
"Yes, indeed JXTA will work. I can't imagine it taking too long to develop either. The next release should add the final touches to the ID system to make collaboration much easier to implement. As far as scalability, I don't see any problems. As to platform of choice, I believe that JXTA is the only platform that makes sense. The closed networks like Groove do not cause innovation. Specialty networks like Gnutella just don't have the breadth of API to do collaboration".
I hope you find this information interesting.
Regards,
Cor
(1) Article: Brookshier, D. (december 2002) "JXTA: P2P grows up".
Book: "JXTA: Java(TM) P2P Programming"
(2) www.rischard.net