One reason why IPv6 adoption has been so slow is that everyone is waiting for everyone else to adopt it first. If that’s the reason for your own company’s sluggishness, it’s time to reconsider, because important online partners are already using the network address protocol: Google is leading the way, by offering its services over [...]
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IPv6, Google, and Your Business
August 31st, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Development · Google · Internet · Network · TCP/IP
Java developers’ reaction to Oracle, Google lawsuit
August 28th, 2010 · No Comments
What do the programmers and companies that depend on the Java software family make of Oracle suing Google? To find out, we asked them. The lawyers and analysts all see potential trouble ahead for Java developers and ISVs coming from Oracle suing Google, but what do they think? I looked around the Web and asked [...]
Tags: Business · Development · Embedded · Google · Java · Open Source · Oracle
What Google’s Data Center Can Teach You
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments
Jeff Dean, a Google Fellow who has been with the company since 1999, gave a speech at the Web Search and Data Mining meeting in 2009 where he unveiled how Google puts together its data centers (PDF). Because the meeting was in Barcelona, Spain, his speech didn’t receive the attention it deserved in the United [...]
Tags: Google · Infrastructure · Internet · Linux · Network · Operating System · Search · Server · Web Services
Google targeting Apple iPad with Chrome tablet?
August 19th, 2010 · Comments Off
Google Android was always going to be the heart of many Linux-based iPad like devices. That’s no news. But, what is new and news is that Google and Verizon appear to be working together to create a Chrome operating system based tablet. According to the first report, from The Download Squad, HTC is building the [...]
Tags: Apple · Business · Google · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Tablet
Is Oracle going after Google because Ellison is buddies with Jobs?
August 18th, 2010 · Comments Off
can think of all kinds of reasons why Oracle is suing Google over its use of its Java IP (intellectual property) in Android. Making money from its Java patents strikes me and most experts as the most likely reason. But, I’ve also heard suggested, time after time, that the real reason is that Larry Ellison, [...]
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