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Daily Dose - Hudson Creator Joins CloudBees

After the creator of the popular, open source Hudson continuous integration tool left Oracle, he started his own company, InfraDNA, to continue Hudson...

0 replies - 18882 views - 11/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Oracle to Sell "Premium" JVM

Tweets coming out of the weekend's QCon conference revealed Oracle's plan for a premium JVM that comes with a price tag.  Adam Messinger, the Oracle VP of...

4 replies - 23840 views - 11/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - First Release of OpenStack is Out

The OpenStack project for open source, interoperable cloud computing and storage controllers has just released its first public version, codenamed...

1 replies - 15591 views - 10/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Spring Web Flow 2.2 GA

The final release of Spring Web Flow 2.2 is here bringing JSF 2.0 support and Portlet 2.0 support.  This version of Spring Web Flow implements Dojo 1.5,...

0 replies - 19226 views - 10/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - ZFS Finally Getting Data Encryption

Sun/Oracle developers have been working on bringing cryptography functions to ZFS, and now Oracle is announcing that this feature will likely be included in...

0 replies - 15664 views - 10/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Chromium OS on the iPad

A developer who provides nightly Chromium builds has managed to port Google's Chromium OS to the iPad.  He posted a picture of the iPad's web page running in...

0 replies - 20679 views - 09/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - ZFS Creator Leaves Oracle

Jeff Bonwick, the software engineer who led the team that created ZFS, is leaving his position as an Oracle VP.  In his blog, Bonwick gave no sign of rancor...

1 replies - 15303 views - 09/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Lift Raised to the Next Level

The Scala-based web framework, Lift, has reached version 2.1 with a few new features to add to the large list from 2.0.  The support is now tighter for the...

0 replies - 16577 views - 09/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Windows Phone 7 Launch is Oct. 11 Say Sources

According to several anonymous sources, allegedly from Microsoft, the GA launch of the Windows Phone 7 OS is scheduled for October 11th.  Pocket-lint said it...

0 replies - 18684 views - 09/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Android Doesn't Count Upgrades as Activations Either

Google responded to Steve Jobs' implications at the iPod/Apple TV/iOS presentation this week.   At the presentation he said that Apple estimates about 230k...

0 replies - 22598 views - 09/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Adobe's McAllister Speaks Out Against Oracle

In a recent blog entry, Adobe's open source and standards director David McAllister remarked that “the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or...

0 replies - 22162 views - 08/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Google to Oracle: 'Bring it'

In a statement sent out to the media late last week, Google announced its intentions to defend open source and protect Android (and the Dalvik JVM) against the...

1 replies - 22796 views - 08/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Early Victory for SFC in GPL Violation Cases

This week the Software Freedom Conservancy won a default judgement and against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for not complying with the GPL in their use of...

0 replies - 14366 views - 08/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - PHP Language Update

The next version of PHP 5 has been released with over 100 bugfixes, some of which are security related.  PHP 5.3.3 may owe some of these bugfixes to the PHP...

0 replies - 12150 views - 07/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Can We Stop Talking About the iPhone Antenna Now?

In this week's edition of 'Media Frenzy Over Basically Nothing,' Apple finally called a press conference to end all the crazy talk about possible recalls and...

0 replies - 19295 views - 07/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose