The Register - Software: ApplicationsBiting the hand that feeds ITEclipse slams Sun for 'mockery' of a Java process- June 6, 2008 Just like an old hardware vendor Sun Microsystems has earned the displeasure of the Eclipse Foundation over its proposed modular Java specification alternative to the OSGi, for the next version of Java.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/06/eclipse_jsr277/ Firefox 3: now available bug-free, say devs- June 6, 2008 Ready for record attempt Mozilla is claiming the second release candidate of Firefox 3.0 is free of bugs.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/06/firefox_release_two/ BEA AquaLogic SOA business dismantled- June 5, 2008 Busting the $300m dream BEA Systems' AquaLogic service oriented architecture (SOA) business, assembled through a multi-million dollar M&A splurge, is being dismantled it seems.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/05/bea_aqualogic_oracle/ Tech luminaries honor database god Jim Gray- June 3, 2008 A tribute, not a memorial In the early nineties, when David Vaskevitch decided that Microsoft should tackle the enterprise database business, the first thing he did was pick up the phone. He dialed the sharpest software minds he knew, and he asked each one who he should talk to about all things DB. They all gave the same answer: Jim Gray. And each described him in exactly the same way: Jim Gray, they said, is smarter than I am.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/03/jim_gray_tribute/ US town tells Street View to push off- June 2, 2008 Private community snaps removed from Google Maps Google has removed a private Minnesota community from its Street View feature after the town politely asked the search monolith to keep its roving spycars to itself.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/02/north_oaks_street_view/ |