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
Managing Developers 101
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments
We all use PHP in our enterprises. It’s become the do-it-all language of choice for Web developers, from the smallest companies to the Fortune 500 and back again. However, PHP — which has been called “the one programming language that makes German look terse” — has problems with scalability. It is all too easy to [...]
Tags: Development · Open Source
Microsoft LOVES open source!?
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments
Microsoft claiming that it loves open source?! What next? Cats and dogs living together?! Seriously, in a recent Network World interview, Microsoft’s General Manager of Interoperability and XML Architecture Jean Paoli said, “We [Microsoft] love open source” and that “We have worked with open source for a long time now.” Really? But what about Microsoft [...]
Tags: Business · Development · Linux · Microsoft · Open Source · Operating System
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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