Java EE —
As I said in my recent post - Java On The Next Billion Devices - Will History Repeat Itself? - all the signs were that we were a matter of days away from the Open Sourcing of the Java platform. Well, today’s the day - Sun Microsystems will announce the first big step to [...]
It’s being reported that an analyst group has predicted Java EE will die within five years. Give me strength.
What’s my problem with this? Let me illustrate with an example. I could, say, predict that Microsoft Windows will be dead in ten years. Depending on your particular viewpoint, you might [...]
RedHat will pay between $350 and $420M in a mixture of cash and stock to acquire JBoss. Seems like a pretty solid result for the shareholders (founders, employees and VC investors). It’s always interesting to see what these type of companies sell for, not least because the valuations the companies achieve gives [...]