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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report.  Just a few weeks ago, the EU's...

1 replies - 1448 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company.  It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition...

0 replies - 2474 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last.  The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface...

0 replies - 2594 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/22

According to Amazon, the world's biggest software company has also racked up the largest number of pre-orders of any product, EVER! That's right, Amazon...

0 replies - 2352 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday.  Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has been...

12 replies - 6632 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Oracle Buys Sun - Coverage from around the Web

In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have...

3 replies - 18401 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Oracle's Effect on Java

With Oracle just after buying Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something...

20 replies - 20917 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Why Microsoft Needs Yahoo: the Real Story

So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called...

0 replies - 12573 views - 02/03/08 by Ivo Jansch in News