NetApp sues Sun over ZFS claims
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Passive-Aggressive behavior Network Appliance is suing Sun Microsystems in an intellectual property spat over - you guessed it - file systems.â¦
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As we reported previously, Kodak filed a lawsuit against Sun Microsystems claiming that the company had infringed on its patents by implementing &quot;ask for help&quot; functionality in its Java programming language, which gave a huge boost to the company&#39;s yearly
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Ahead of Apple's yearly developer conference, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz confirmed Wednesday that the next version of Mac OS X -- due in October -- will feature Sun's ZFS file system instead of Apple's HFS+ used previously.
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The Zend Developer Zone has republished the latest roadmap for the Zend Framework as posted by Andi Gutmans of Zend.    Although not always visible due to the infrequent release of new framework packages, there has been a lot of progress in the past few months. More than 100 community members(!) have joined the effort by singing the CLA, and are contributing via proposals, comments, patches, code contributions or documentation improvements.   Now the Summer is over and everyone is back at work, we feel it's the right time to finish planning the 1.0 release. We believe that in order to make a successfull release and get closure on the various aspects, it makes most sense to break up the framework into a limited number of subject areas and form project teams around these areas instead of components.    The following is a list of such areas and the components we believe we should focus on for 1.0. As you can see, a large amount of the work has already been done, but we now have to focus on getting closure on them and tying up loose ends.    Some of the components they've listed fall under the categories of:  Web & Web Services MVC & related Authentication & authorization Databases Documentation & translation    There is also a high-level look at what version 0.2 of the framework will contain and a return to the "post often" methodology they had before.
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Migrate and be damned Sun Microsystems is reaching out to scripters and developers on rivals' IDEs with enterprise tools and a migration program for its latest version of NetBeans.â¦
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Paul Jones has run some benchmarking on four different frameworks - CakePHP, Solar, Symfony, and the Zend Framework - to check for overall speed and has come up with some interesting results.   Anger-inducing broad-brush overview: Solar is 4x faster than Zend, and almost 2x faster than Symfony. Read on for all the nuances and caveats.   Throughout the rest of the post he talks about the methods that he took for testing the frameworks and that his goal was the fastest response time only, nothing about the actual functionality. The test was as simple of a "hello world" that he could get in each one.   He's provided the benchmarking results, as provided by Apache's ab testing script for the base (just PHP manually) and then for each of the frameworks, providing the code used as well. There's also a helpful bit on which classes get loaded for each of the frameworks to see what the overhead is. Symfony tops off this list with 43 total libraries for what ends up as a simple echo statement.
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Paul Jones, developer of the Solar Application Framework, has posted the latest version of said software. Details for the release can be found in this blog posting over on his site.    Last night, I released version 0.24.0 of Solar, the simple object library and application repository. Solar is a PHP 5 framework for rapid application development.   You can read the change notes for a full run-down, but there are a few changes in particular that I want to highlight.    He points out changes in the form of two major packages:  Solar_Request - a new class developed to handle the request information for a script (get/post/cookie/etc) Solar_Session - a new class to handle the sessions in an application, complete with read-once "flash" support  He also mentions a small change to the built-in Ajax support for the handling of the "edit" view.
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Sun Microsystems faces the possibility of having to pay more than US$1 billion in damages now that a federal court jury has found the computer giant&#39;s popular Java languages infringed on a patent held by Eastman Kodak.
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TechWeb - NetApp, which blames Sun for starting the intellectual property dispute, tries to distance itself from SCO&#39;s long-running, controversial lawsuit.
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In a new post to his blog today, Matthew O'Phinney dives in to some of the more advanced features that the Zend_Form component of the Zend Framework has to offer.   I've been working on  for the past few weeks, and it's nearing release readiness. There are a number of features that Cal didn't cover in his DevZone coverage (in part because some of them weren't yet complete) that I'd like to showcase.   These additional features include internationalization, element grouping and array support. He looks at each of these, including some sample code where needed, and shows you how they can be useful to you and your ZF application.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM Corp. says a Sunnyvale, California, company has infringed its patents by creating computers that allow customers to run IBM's System z operating systems and software on mainframes from other vendors. That action amounts to breach of contract and patent infringement, IBM claimed Nov. 29 in a lawsuit filed against Platform Solutions Inc. (PSI) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Founded in 1999, PSI is now testing its product with beta customers, and preparing to launch it in 2007. PSI's emulator system enables a server using Intel Corp.'s Itanium 2 processors to simultaneously run operating systems including IBM's z/OS, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, Linux and Unix. IBM's current generation of System z products include zSeries servers and System z9 servers, both running on IBM's 64-bit z/Architecture and z/OS operating system, and both using software such as IBM's Database 2 (DB2) and Customer Information Control System (CICS). From PSI's point of view, its "patented microcode technology" enables standard, open-system Itanium processors to run the IBM z/OS operating system. But IBM describes those same machines as servers that mimic IBM computer architectures so they can run IBM software. IBM claims that practice violates its software licenses, and has asked a judge to assign damages and terminate PSI's licenses. "PSI's marketing program is a blatant attempt to infringe on IBM's intellectual property and to convert to PSI the fruits of IBM's substantial investments in developing computer systems, architectures, operating systems and other software," the lawsuit said. In turn, PSI has threatened to sue IBM for violating antitrust laws by refusing to extend the software license, the lawsuit said. So IBM also asked the judge to deny that claim. The two companies were once on better terms. In August, PSI demonstrated its emulator system at a meeting of SHARE, the IBM user group. A spokesman for SHARE said the group had a practice of declining comment on IBM management and legal issues. One possible defense by PSI will be to argue that Ronald Hilton, the company's founder and chief technology officer, actually holds a patent for the emulator system. PSI did not respond to a request for comment. A statement on PSI's Web site says, "PSI is very disappointed that IBM has resorted to litigation. While we recognize that we are a competitor of IBM, PSI has always sought and continues to seek a normal commercial relationship. ... PSI is confident in its legal position." A spokesman for IBM declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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Sun filed suit in U.S. District Court in Eastern Texas against the entire NetApp product line, seeking both an injunction and monetary damages.
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Sun Microsystems's CEO Jonathan Schwartz said Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard would rely on a file system that his engineers created: ZFS.
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Apple executives at WWDC said that Mac OS X Leopard will not use Sun's ZFS 128-bit file system, contrary to reports that surfaced last week. Apparently, somebody forgot to tell Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who told a conference that Apple would announce the switch Monday.
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Sun launches products for web infrastructure on Solaris 10 Comment Sun Microsystems has announced a new set of products and services targeting developers, startups, and internet companies seeking to build and deploy their web infrastructure on Solaris 10.â¦
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Software giant's deal with Sun has raised some questions.