Adobe Flash vs Apple iPad: RIA in the balance

By tim, on February 1st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe evangelist Lee Brimelow has posted some images of well-known sites that break if Adobe Flash is not enabled. His point: if Apple’s iPad does not support Flash, none of these sites will work correctly.

While true in the short term, I do not think this is an effective line of argument. 

Let’s presume that you

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February 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: adobe, apple, flash, microsoft, oracle | 4 comments

A year of blogging: another crazy year in tech

By tim, on December 31st, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

At this time of year I allow myself a little introspection. Why do I write this blog? In part because I enjoy it; in part because it lets me write what I want to write, rather than what someone will commission; in part because I need to be visible on the Internet as an individual,

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December 31st, 2009 | Category: .net, Sun, adobe, apple, blogging, exchange, flash, google, internet, microsoft, oracle, silverlight, software development, visual studio, web authoring, windows | One comment

IntelliJ IDEA goes free and open source

By tim, on October 16th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday JetBrains announced that its core product, the IDEA IDE for Java, is becoming open source under the Apache 2.0 license. There will be a free Community Edition and a commercial edition with more features. This list of additional features not in the free edition is rather extensive, including UML class diagrams, code coverage, Android

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October 16th, 2009 | Category: adobe, java, open source, oracle, software development | 7 comments

London Stock Exchange migrating from .NET to Oracle/UNIX platform

By tim, on September 16th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The London Stock Exchange has agreed to acquire MillenniumIT, and will be replacing its TradElect and Infolect systems with the MillenniumIT trading system. TradElect is based on Windows Server and .NET,  and was created by Microsoft and Accenture. Microsoft used to use the LSE’s system as a showcase for .NET scalability, but while it proved

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September 16th, 2009 | Category: .net, linux, microsoft, oracle, sql, windows | 3 comments

Why the EU should not worry about Oracle and MySQL

By tim, on September 4th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The European Commission is examining Oracle’s acquisition of Sun and has concerns about the implications for MySQL:

Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said: “The Commission has to examine very carefully the effects on competition in Europe when the world’s leading proprietary database company proposes to take over the world’s leading open source database company. In particular, the

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September 4th, 2009 | Category: Sun, database, open source, oracle | Leave a comment

Eclipse survey shows Windows decline

By tim, on June 30th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

In May 2009 the open source Eclipse project surveyed its users. Visitors to the Eclipse site were asked to complete a survey, and 1365 did so. That’s out of around 1 million visitors, which shows how much we all hate surveys. Anyway, this report [pdf] was the result. A similar survey [pdf] was carried out

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June 30th, 2009 | Category: eclipse, ibm, internet, java, microsoft, open source, oracle, software, software development, visual studio, windows | Leave a comment

Running Oracle on Amazon’s cloud

By tim, on September 23rd, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Amazon has announced a partnership with Oracle, to run Oracle’s database and middleware products on Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2). Specifically, the products are Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Manager; and for the OS, Oracle Enterprise Linux. A key feature is that both Amazon and Oracle offer full support for these products

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September 23rd, 2008 | Category: amazon, internet, oracle | Leave a comment

Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz makes the case for free and open source software

By tim, on February 21st, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

I interviewed Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz last week, and wrote it up for Guardian Technology. By the way, the picture is much better in the print edition.

Sun is gambling on open source – not only open source, but free software. This is possibly easier for Sun that it would be for, say, Microsoft or Oracle,

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February 21st, 2008 | Category: Sun, apple, google, ibm, microsoft, open source, oracle | 2 comments