Tag Archives: OpenJDK

Daily links for 11/12/2010

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X “Oracle and Apple® today announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS® X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on … Continue reading

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Daily links for 10/25/2010

Scott Laningham : #developerWorks podcast “Rod Smith, Vice President of Emerging Technologies, IBM Software Group,  and Jason Gartner, IBM’s Director of Java Technologies talk about this week’s news on the IBM and Oracle agreement to cooperate on OpenJDK.” tags: developerworks … Continue reading

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Daily links for 10/22/2010

Statement by the ASF Board on recent Java-related events : The Apache Software Foundation Blog “As reported recently in the news and elsewhere, there are two issues currently facing the Foundation that merit a response from the ASF.” tags: apache … Continue reading

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Daily links for 10/14/2010

Microsoft Gives its Blessing to OpenOffice.org – Open Enterprise “The criticisms made in the video are not really the point – they are mostly about OpenOffice.org not being a 100% clone of Microsoft Office, and compatibility problems with Microsoft’s proprietary … Continue reading

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Daily links for 10/13/2010

Red Hat hails IBM’s move to Oracle OpenJDK – InternetNews:The Blog – Sean Michael Kerner “IBM’s embrace of Oracle’s OpenJDK is a good thing for a lot of people in the Java community. Three years ago, I wrote about Red … Continue reading

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Daily links for 10/12/2010 – OpenJDK edition

IBM and Oracle Are Behind OpenJDK! | JavaWorld’s Daily Brew “Today’s announcement that IBM will collaborate on OpenJDK comes at an important time for the Java community. For years, Java developers wondered if Sun would ever open source Java. Recently, … Continue reading

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IBM joins the OpenJDK community, will help unify open source Java efforts

When people talk about open source, the notion of “forking” often comes up. The idea is that some folks are not happy with the direction in which a project is going, so they take a copy of the source code, … Continue reading

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