Users of Java-capable cell phones anywhere may find browsing the Web easier and cheaper now that Opera Software is allowing anyone to download its Opera Mini application. The official worldwide launch of Opera Mini is planned for January but Opera has quietly lifted restrictions that previously allowed only residents of some Nordic countries and Germany to download the application, a spokesman has confirmed.
In what should come as a relief to some customers, Microsoft said it will continue to provide support for its Java virtual machine software until the end of September 2004, 10 months longer than it had originally planned, under a new licensing agreement announced Tuesday with Sun.
NTT DoCoMo and Sun have begun work on a new Java platform for cellular handsets. The work, which began last year but was first revealed two weeks ago at Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, is aimed at refreshing the mobile Java platform for today's more advanced handsets and applications. It could also be promoted as a cross-industry standard, the companies said in interviews.
Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" set of monthly software patches is so minimal for January that at least one security firm is suggesting that IT shops first tend to recently issued patches for more severe vulnerabilities found in Oracle Java, Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader.
The CEOs of Oracle and Google met in court for six hours on Friday but failed to reach a deal to end their massive copyright lawsuit over Google's use of Java in Android.
Businesses that love Java and are looking to move to open source may want to give Compiere a look. The system is a complete ERP and CRM suite that includes accounting, order entry, customer information tracking, as well internal applications such as human resources, sales force automation and even customer call management functions.
I believe in open source and I believe that the results of open source projects are generally on par and often significantly better than those of commercial software. Why else would Linux and Apache be capturing server market share at such a rate? Why else would Java, Perl and Python be such remarkable forces in programming? Why else would tens of thousands of developers and hundreds of companies have selected the open source world as their chosen way to build business?
Oracle’s legal fight with Google over its use of Java in Android goes to a jury trial for the second time on Monday, with Oracle seeking $8.8 billion in damages.
Is there any ready-made code available to get a MAC address from a remote machine (behind a router) when the client is executing a Web page? Something in Java Server Pages or Java would be preferable.
Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy at the 2004 JavaOne conference on Tuesday extended an open invitation to Microsoft and Linux operating system vendor Red Hat to join the Java Community Process (JCP), and also stressed that Sun, which has struggled financially lately, is not going away.
Mainframe customers are taking a fresh look at the Big Iron that celebrated its 40th birthday last month. IBM is spurring things along with new pricing schemes; more powerful processors; support for non-proprietary technologies such as TCP/IP, Linux and Java; and on-demand offerings that put the mainframe in the reach of even the smallest customers.
SpringSource, the enterprise Java vendor recently bought by VMware, announced an acquisition Tuesday that is designed to boost VMware’s cloud computing plans in the platform-as-a-service market.
I have been trying to run a Java-based application (IDXRAD) over IPSec using the Nortel Contivity 1700. For some reason, when users try to run this application remotely via IPSec IDXRAD will not work. You can log in to IDXRAD fine, but it will only display a grey background. I have tried everything from capturing and analyzing the packets, but I can't seem to figure out what is going.
I have been trying to run a Java-based application (IDXRAD) over IPSec using the Nortel Contivity 1700. For some reason, when users try to run this application remotely via IPSec IDXRAD will not work. You can log in to IDXRAD fine, but it will only display a grey background. I have tried everything from capturing and analyzing the packets, but I can’t seem to figure out what is going.
IBM and Sun have a new favorite weapon in the public wrangling over Java development leadership: the open letter. IBM's Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technologies for the company's software group, fired off the latest salvo Wednesday, jumping on Sun technology evangelist Simon Phipps' suggestion at the recent EclipseCon that IBM give its Java implementation to the open-source community.
Nokia expects work to be wrapped up early next year on a Java standard that should make it easier to manage business and consumer applications on mobile phones and other wireless devices, Nokia's CTO said Wednesday.
Java, the popular OS-independent platform and programming language, runs on just about every kind of electronic device imaginable, including computers, cell phones, printers, TVs, DVDs, home security systems, automated teller machines, navigation systems, games and medical devices.
Microsoft has filed a counterclaim in Sun's private antitrust lawsuit against the software giant, with Microsoft claiming that Sun broke a contract that allowed it to distribute its own version of Java.