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Mitch Pronschinske11/18/09
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CTO Ari Zilka Says Terracotta is Fast

Terracotta is having a defining year in 2009.  Their Hibernate and EHcache products provide innovative methods for object-relational mapping and distributed caching.  The Terracotta 3.1.1 server is already extremely fast, but Terracotta is trying to make it...

Mitch Pronschinske11/18/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence.  That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open source.  The TCP/IP stack and cryptography stack are still closed, however, because a third-party owns...

Mitch Pronschinske11/17/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mark your calendars!  The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World.  Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th.  Register here for a chance to present at either conference.

Mitch Pronschinske11/16/09
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Inside the New Apache Solr

In 2006, Solr was donated to the Apache Foundation and integrated into the Lucene project.  Apache Solr is an enterprise search platform that powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.  It harnesses the popular...

Mitch Pronschinske11/16/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/16

A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Psystar's Mac clones infringe on Apple's copyrights.  Psystar made the case that it could run the Mac OS X on non-Apple machines.  Apparently, Psystar didn't read the Mac OS X end user license agreement, which states...

Mitch Pronschinske11/14/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/14

If Oracle were to sell MySQL to a third-party, who would it be?  Many thought Red Hat was the obvious choice with thier JBoss open source division.  Reporters have been asking Florian Mueller for his prediction for quite a while now and he finally answered:...

Mitch Pronschinske11/13/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/13

Can't stand your tiny 30-inch, panoramic monitor?  Why not upgrade with the single-slot Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 graphics card?  It drives eight monitors, each at 2560 x 1600 pixels.  If eight monitors isn't enough, try combining two for a seamless, 16...

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

Google has until the end of the week to revise its book deal with the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers.  A judge extended the deadline after criticisms from competitors and regulators forced Google to revise the terms of the...

Mitch Pronschinske11/10/09
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/10

Today is the 5 year anniversary of Firefox 1.0.  Thousands of add-ons have been contributed over the years because Firefox's XUL based architecture makes it easy for developers to write extensions.  Firefox's 3.5 version is now the second most popular web...

Mitch Pronschinske11/09/09
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JNBridgePro 5.0 Bridges Java and .NET

JNBridge, a provider of interoperability tools between Java and .NET frameworks, announced the newest versions of JNBridge Pro and its JMS adapters.  JNBridgePro 5.0 comes with support for more Java and .NET implementations and adds new security protocols to...

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...

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...

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...