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Ten big tech trends from 2010

By tim, on December 31st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

This was an amazing year for tech. Here are some of the things that struck me as significant.

Sun Java became Oracle Java

Oracle acquired Sun and set about imposing its authority on Java. Java is still Java, but Oracle lacks Sun’s commitment to open source and community – though even in Sun days there

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What you are saying about the Java crisis

By tim, on November 19th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

A week or so ago I posted about the Java crisis and what it means for developers. The post attracted attention both here and later on The Guardian web site where it appeared as a technology blog. It was also picked up by Reddit prompting a discussion with over 500 posts.

So what are

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WS-I closes its doors–the end of WS-* web services?

By tim, on November 17th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The Web Services Interoperability Organization has announced [pdf] the “completion” of its work:

After nearly a decade of work and industry cooperation, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I; http://www.ws-i.org) has successfully concluded its charter to document best practices for Web services interoperability across multiple platforms, operating systems and programming languages.

In the whacky world of

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The Java crisis and what it means for developers

By tim, on November 13th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

What is happening with the Java language and runtime? Since Java passed into the hands of Oracle, following its acquisition of Sun, there has been a succession of bad news. To recap:

The JavaOne conference in September 2010 was held in the shadow of Oracle OpenWorld making it a less significant event than in previous

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Open season for patent litigation makes case for reform

By tim, on August 31st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

It seems to be open season for software patent litigation. Oracle is suing Google over its use of Java in Android. Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing is suing AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Yahoo and others – the Wall Street Journal has an illustrated discussion of the patents involved here. Let’s not forget that Apple

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Oracle still foisting Google Toolbar on Java users

By tim, on August 22nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Oracle may be suing Google over its use of Java in Android; but the company is still happy to take the search giant’s cash in exchange for foisting the Google Toolbar on users who carelessly click Next when updating their Java installation on Windows. If they do, the Toolbar is installed by default.

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Apple not Android is killing client-side Java – so why is Oracle suing Google?

By tim, on August 19th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Oracle is suing Google over Java in Android; the Register has a link to the complaint itself which lists seven patents which Oracle claims Google has infringed. There is also a further clause which says Google has infringed copyright in the:

code, specifications, documentation and other materials) that is copyrightable subject matter

and that it

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Oracle breaks, then mends Eclipse with new Java build

By tim, on August 4th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Somewhere in the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) is a company field, identifying the source of the JVM. Following its acquisition of Sun, Oracle reasonably enough changed the field in version 1.6.0_21 to reference Oracle rather than Sun.

Unfortunately some applications use the field to vary some command-line arguments according to which JVM is in use.

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Novell’s Michael Meeks downbeat on OpenOffice.org project

By tim, on June 21st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

There is a fascinating interview over on The H with Michael Meeks, who works at Novell on OpenOffice.org development. It would be wrong to call OpenOffice.org unsuccessful: it is a solid product that forms a viable alternative to Microsoft Office in many scenarios. Nevertheless, it has not disrupted the Microsoft Office market as much as

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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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