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Mitch Pronschinske11/09/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/9

An SAP spokesperson confirmed that the company's CEO Leo Apotheker sent a letter to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison less than two weeks after the EU antitrust probe began. A Wall Street Journal editorial speculates about the letter's intent in relation to a suit...

Mitch Pronschinske11/07/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/7

The project manager of Jython announced he is quitting his job at Sun. Frank Wierzbicki helped design Jython, the Java implementation of Python, for five years while he worked at Sun. This departure comes just four months after two JRuby developers left...

Nitin Bharti11/06/09
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Can't Buy Me SOA - Herbjorn Wilhelmsen at Oredev 2009

Here at the Oredev 2009 conference in Malmo, Sweden, I had the chance to connect with Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, one of the members of the SOA Manifesto Working Group. Herbjorn presented a 'lightning talk' on the Manifesto, describing its vision and overarching...

Mitch Pronschinske11/06/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/6

After being criticized for selling Facebook fans and Twitter followers, uSocial says it has started selling YouTube viewers as well. uSocial says companies can improve audiences by buying a bunch of views rather than getting them organically. They claim...

Mitch Pronschinske11/05/09
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Miko Matsumura: The Role, Risk, and Future of Cloud Computing

Developers are always looking for, and sometimes making, the next tool that will simplify or eliminate steps in building an application. Abstractions are necessary for eliminating tedious and time consuming tasks. Cloud computing has proved to be a great...

Alex Neihaus11/05/09
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SOA needs manifestation….not manifesto

I’ll bet that it felt like a momentous achievement to get a group of very well-known bloggers, analysts and technologists to agree on a “manifesto” for services-oriented architecture (SOA).

Mitch Pronschinske11/05/09
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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 Competition Commissioner reprimanded Oracle for making no effort to address concerns about owning...

Mitch Pronschinske11/03/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/3

An open source version of the Linux Skype client has been confirmed and is currently under development. A Skype blog says that the open sourcing of the UI will speed up development and allow the use of any GUI toolkit. Skype says this initial open source...

Masoud Kalali11/02/09
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Dynamic SOA and BPM

After several years of companies industry-wide combining Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), the results are mixed. Some companies have had substantial benefits moving to SOA, while others have had average results. All...

Mitch Pronschinske11/02/09
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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 could be blocked by the European Commission. Oracle recently withdrew notification of the acquisition...

Mitch Pronschinske10/30/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/31

ICANN, the nonprofit responsible for worldwide domain names and IP addresses, has decided to allow the introduction of non-Latin characters into domain names. ICANN chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush, says its the biggest technical change to the Internet in...

Mitch Pronschinske10/30/09
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The SOA Manifesto in Review: A Guide For SOA Adoption

The recent drafting of an SOA manifesto raises new questions about the current state of service-oriented architecture and the need for an SOA manifesto. Why do we need an SOA manifesto at this point in time? How will this manifesto help companies build...

Mitch Pronschinske10/29/09
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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 instead of HAL. For a full walkthrough of the features, check out this guided tour of Ubutnu 9.10...

Mitch Pronschinske10/29/09
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Top Open Source ESB Projects

In today's software markets, open source technologies are giving commercial products some stiff competition. Enterprise Service Busses are no exception. Don Rippert, the chief technology officer at Accenture says, "ESBs are software products that...

Mitch Pronschinske10/28/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29

The US Department of Defence released a memo saying that they allow and encourage the use of open source software. It took them six years to clarify this after a 2003 memorandum implied that the DoD shouldn't use open source. Yet another example of speedy...