Podcast: Just like old times: Are Oracle and Sun back?
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Oracle, Sun make headlines; the latest from Macworld; and stock-option scandal nails tech exec.
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Time to toss your PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ) contact list. Four executives at the software company have been replaced by counterparts from Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ), which is wrapping
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The Pro::PHP Podcast has released their latest show another newscast hosted by Sean Coates an dPaul Reinheimer discussing some of the recent events in both the PHP and general online communities.   Topics mentioned in this show include:   a mention of their Rant line - 1.888.401.3750 the announcement of php|works Terry Chay's post about PHP and Ruby PHP's rank in the TIOBE Index and the transformation of XUL -> PHP-GTK   Check out what Sean and Paul have to say on these and lots of other topics in this most recent show and while you're listening, subscribe to their feed to get future episodes brought straight to you.
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TechWeb - Sun's recent decision to open-source some elements of Java is pretty exciting -- but a few years overdue, says &lt;i&gt;InformationWeek&lt;/i&gt; columnist Eric A. Hall
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Will developers be happy as Larry? Oracle was banging its drum hard today, as it launched version 11g of its eponymous Database product.â¦
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Back with his own look at the php/db|works conference is Cal Evans wrapping up Day Two:   Day Two at php|works started off with a bang. Rasums presented his "Getting Rich with PHP" as the opening keynote. If you've never seen this presentation, the OSCON version is described here with links to a video of it as well as the slides. It's an interesting presentation. I missed the first section of it at OSCON where he slaps around both IE and FLASH pointing out some serious security holes. Again, it's a great presentation and worth the time to listen to.   Cal talks about...well...the talks and about the interviews he started (like with Chris Hartjes, Ilia Alshanetsky, Chris Shiflett, and Sebastian Bergmann).
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Ziff Davis - In an eWEEK interview, the Sun exec says he sees Solaris, Linux, Java and even Windows coexisting.
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It's not every day that the entire technical press goes bonkers over news in the open source world, but that's what happened last week, when Sun announced that it was buying MySQL.  Doubtless, the pleasant roundness of the sum involved - $1 billion â helped, as did the fact that most of that was cash.  But leaving aside the sense of satisfaction that events in the free software world should be suddenly thrust centre-stage, Sun's move does raise a larger question about the fate of all open source start-ups. read more
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Sun&#39;s Solaris operating system has a long and illustrious history. As the UNIX of choice for most companies with big iron, it&#39;s widely considered to be one of the most reliable UNIX variants available.
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Palm used to dominate the market with the best gadget. What went wrong? Mike Elgan gives his views.
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Sun Microsystems is trying a new marketing strategy ... giving away its new Solaris 10 operating system for free! &quot;Hewlett Packard sells a printer at a low price and makes a lot of money on printer cartridges.
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Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) has revamped its sales-side CRM applications in version 11i.10 of its sales, marketing, partner relationship management and e-commerce application.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest podcast in its PHP Abstract series. This time it's hosted by Paul Jones, developer of the Solar framework project, who talks gives an overview of the project and its place in the PHP community.   Today's special guest is Paul M. Jones. Paul is an internationally-recognized expert PHP developer and technical consultant living in Memphis, TN. On his blog, he writes mostly about his software projects, but also touches on management, business, politics, and culture.   You can grab the show directly or subscribe to the feed to get this and more great shows from the podcast (with topics covered like PHP & Java, CodeIgniter, Security and much more)
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Sun exec: "If we want to keep Java relevant, we have to support this newer programming model."
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At work we're mostly an OSS shop.  Partly because I have a strong bias towards OSS but cost, reliability, security, etc are all leading factors.  For the last several months now I've been in an interesting position to prove the benefits of OSS in a real-world environment.  We've had to extend a number of OSS tools to fit into our production environment.  These are significant additions and non-trivial.  Open Source allows you to STAND on the shoulders of gods.  For example we've been having a problem with the Jakarta DBCP  connection pool.  It was running out of connections in highly threaded environments and is slow.  Certainly slower than would be necessary.  Long story short.  Last night  ...
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted episode #32 of their popular PHP podcast series (PHP Abstract) - "Introduction to symfony" as hosted by Stefan Koopmanschap.   Today's special guest is Stefan Koopmanschap. Stefan is web application developer and professional services consultant for Ibuildings.nl. He is the initiator of the SymfonyCamp event in 2007, and is also trying to promote symfony in The Netherlands with his local website symfony-framework.nl. His own website can be found at www.leftontheweb.com   You know the drill - there's three ways to get this latest and greatest show:   listen on the web via the embeded player Download the mp3 for immediate satisfaction Subscribe to their feed in your aggregator of choice
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Back in February, Ralph Green asked me to speak at the North Texas Linux Users' Group. I discussed Linux administration and then took questions. Some one in the audience asked me about Mono. I gave a cavalier answer having a bias against it. Then someone else in the audience said that I needed to get my facts straight. read more