Archives for May 2008
Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo, has a great post about advertising failing on Social Networking sites. He poses the question: what should social networking sites do to monetize their huge traffic? Have I got the definitive answer? Possibly not! In fact, I can tell you that we’re not working on social networking, precisely because I’m […]
If you weren’t following the various Java announcements at JavaOne 2008 last week, the following discussion between Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green gives not only a really great overview, bit also gives some visibility about the ambition that Sun’s senior management have for the “new Java”. Enjoy…
Powerset, a start-up search company focused on so-called “natural language search” is now open for business (see Techcrunch story). So far, you can search only the content on Wikipedia. There’s a reason for that: the Powerset technology doesn’t simply index content by keyword; rather, it runs more computationally intensive software that attempts to figure out […]
Techcrunch is reporting that a $150M venture fund aimed at Blackberry developers, will be launched on Monday (update: it’s now launched). It’s a clear response to the $100M iPhone fund that was recently launched by Apple and Kleiner-Perkins. Taken together, that means that there’s a quarter of a billion dollars of venture capital available for […]
Update 14 May: Sun has updated their on-line info (see below), and Jonathan Schwartz in his blog has stated that JavaFX will be open sourced under the GPL v2 licence.
I’ve been aware of JavaFX, Sun’s new Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, since it was first announced a year ago at JavaOne 2007 (and before that, […]
Rich Green, EVP Software at Sun, kicked off the 2008 JavaOne with a keynote presentation today. He began by saying there were going to be some surprises. He wasn’t wrong; although, having said that, almost all of what he talked about is still being built. Mostly, nothing is shipping yet and so all we got […]
Today, we’ve had the first glimpse into Sun’s future plans for cloud computing, which will be based around the brand new OpenSolaris OS (just released today, after being in preview for some time). You may, or may not, know that Sun already has a cloud computing offering, called Network.com. So far, this has been focused […]
If you’re a software developer, you might want to watch Sun Microsystems this week. Their JavaOne conference, and free spin-off CommunityOne, are taking place in San Francisco; so expect a series of announcements and updates on progress on projects that have been under the covers for a while. Areas where there should interesting and detailed […]
A few days ago, I wrote about it seeming likely that Microsoft would offer a maximum of $33 per share for Yahoo!, but that there were rumours that Yahoo! wanted $37 per share. I said:
If Yahoo!’s shareholders are really holding out for an offer of $37+ per share, as some are suggesting, I suspect they’re […]
If you’ve ever watched an interview with Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz, or read his blog, you’ll realise he has the phenotype of a great CEO. If you’ve bought any Sun servers in recent years, you’ll also know Sun makes some great hardware. If you’ve had a problem during the buying process, you’ll know […]