Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 29th Apr 2011 22:06 UTC, submitted by sjvn
Attachmate now owns Novell and therefore, by extension, also owns SUSE and openSUSE. With Oracle currently doing everything in its power to thoroughly destroy what's left of Sun's open source commitments, scepticism abound about the future of SUSE, and more specifically of openSUSE. Attachmate's CEO has answered some questions about the future of SUSE and openSUSE, and as far as words go, it's looking good.
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RE[9]: As far as words go....
by pantheraleo on Tue 3rd May 2011 14:28
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What was being discussed was web technologies,and these days java in LOB applications is almost exclusively an intranet technology and is also disappearing there for new projects.
Ah. So that's why e-bay is powered by Java. And why IBM and Oracle's blogging sites are powered by Java. And why Google App Engine is built on Java. And why e-trade is built on Java. And why Twitter's back end is built on Java. And why a lot of open source software sites use the JIRA issue tracker, which is built on Java. And why Wells Fargo's online finance applications are built on Java. And why L.L Bean is built on Java. Because no one uses Java to build public Web sites anymore. I get it now.
and is also disappearing there for new projects.
Got a citation to back up that claim? I'm quite certain the reason Google spent millions of dollars to develop support for Java on Google App Engine is NOT because no one is writing new Web applications in Java. I'm also quite certain they didn't develop GWT because no one is writing new Web applications in Java.
You also completely failed to address my point about why attempts to determine how many Java Web applications are out there are flawed. Because unlike PHP, you usually can't probe a a Web site and find out that it is using Java.
RE[9]: As far as words go....
by pantheraleo on Tue 3rd May 2011 14:54
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Member since:2007-03-07
What was being discussed was web technologies,and these days java in LOB applications is almost exclusively an intranet technology and is also disappearing there for new projects.
There is also something else you are overlooking, which is that we have hit the limits of Moore's law. The free ride that developers have been enjoying of faster CPUs has come to a halt. Intel has been warning developers that this was going to happen, and that developers were going to have to start writing their applications to be concurrent as we start adding more cores because of the fact that we can't make them go faster anymore. Within a few years, Intel will be producing desktop CPUs with 32 cores.
What are these massively concurrent applications going to be written in? Python? Ruby? PHP? Concurrency is notoriously difficult to do well in any of these languages.
Once again, enter Java. Several new functional programming languages, such as Clojure and Scala, have been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years, specifically because of their concurrency features (immutable data structures, software transactional memory, etc).
So again, your argument that "no one is using Java anymore" is flawed. Java has been well ahead of the concurrency curve for years, running and scaling well on systems that have thousands of cores. Python, Ruby, and PHP have a hell of a lot of catching up to do if they want to compete with Java in this new world where developers cannot rely on faster CPUs anymore, and are forced to deal with writing massively concurrent applications.
Edited 2011-05-03 14:57 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 23:22 UTC
"Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:04 UTC
"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:01 UTC
"In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 17:52 UTC
"The wave of departures is a sign of internal struggle, but amidst all the bad news, there is a glimmer of hope. According to an anonymous HTC executive cited by WSJ, the crucial HTC One is selling 'pretty good so far'. The executive revealed that HTC sold about five million One units since launch, a performance that is deemed encouraging. However, sales have been limited by the persisting supply issues that still plague the production of the HTC One." Finally some good news for HTC. Five million units amidst supply constraints is very impressive.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 22:23 UTC
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 13:38 UTC
"The Verge has learned that HTC's Chief Product Officer, Kouji Kodera, left the company last week. Kodera was responsible for HTC's overall product strategy, which makes the departure especially notable on the heels of the global launch of the make-or-break One. It's not just Kodera. In the past three-odd months, HTC has lost a number of employees in rapid succession." I really hope HTC pulls it together.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 13:30 UTC, submitted by JRepin
"It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. This is a snapshot of Debian 'sid' at the time of the Debian 'wheezy' release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release." Important note: 75% of Debian packages are supported bu Debian GNU/Hurd. Impressive.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 22:06 UTC
"The first killer app was VisiCalc. This early spreadsheet turned the Apple II from a hobbyist toy to a business computer. VisiCalc came with room for improvement, though. In addition, a new architecture and operating system, the Intel-based IBM PC and MS-DOS, also needed a spreadsheet to be taken seriously. That spreadsheet, released in early 1983, would be Lotus 1-2-3, and it would change the world. It became the PC's killer app, and the world would never be the same. On May 14, IBM quietly announced the end of the road for 1-2-3, along with Lotus Organizer and the Lotus SmartSuite office suite. Lotus 1-2-3's day is done." Impressive 30 year run.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:45 UTC
"There's a disconnect between how Apple CEO Tim Cook sees his company's tax strategies and how some members of the US Senate view it. That became clearer than ever today after Cook and two other Apple executives testified before Congress, explaining why they're holding most of their international income in Irish subsidiaries like Apple Operations International, which declare no tax residency anywhere in the world. AOI hasn't filed a tax return anywhere in the world for the last five years, yet it earned $30 billion in income from 2009 to 2012, according to a Senate report released yesterday." Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's just. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many more - these companies might not be breaking any laws, but it's obvious to anyone that what they are doing is scummy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 15:53 UTC
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"More News »
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Here are some statistics that are not flawed however:
* Java is the #1 language on Sourceforge.
* IBM, Red Hat, Oracle, VMWare, and HP are all strongly behind Java.
* 100% of Fortune 1000 companies use Java.
And here are some current numbers from dice.com as far as the demand for various languages. From most demand to least demand:
Java: 15911 job listings
.NET: 9084 job listings
PHP: 2996 job listings
Python: 2447 job listings
Ruby: 1478 job listings
Coldfusion: 335 job listings.
Java is clearly the dominant platform. The only platform that is even on the radar as a potential threat is .NET. "
I was not aware that sourceforge is only used for creating publicly accessible websites.
Likewise IBM, Red Hat, Oracle, VMWare, and HP only business is to create publicly accessible websites.
What was being discussed was web technologies,and these days java in LOB applications is almost exclusively an intranet technology and is also disappearing there for new projects.
Java is however straddling a number of technology segments, like LOB, embedded and mobile and will of course hold out for a long time before it disappears completely, kind of like cobol.