GigaSpaces Release 3.2 introduces new Distributed-Caching Mechanism boosting performance by orders of magnitude ... New York, NY, March 4, 2004. GigaSpaces a...
Time is running out to register for the Jini Community[SM] meeting in Cambridge, Mass from March 23-25, 2004. You'll find in-depth presentations, technical...
Hi, I have been a silent member of this group for a while and this is my first posting on the list. So far I was more curious about what JINI is all about but...
You are not alone. I have wanted to use JINI and more specifically JavaSpaces in my projects for years. The showstopper has always been the license. As ESR...
Daniel Creswell has sent me an e-mail asking me to communicate his views on this subject. Here is an extract: <<you can find the thread I'm talking about...
From: http://www.dancres.org/cottage/scsl_probs.html [A number of people have written to me and stated that they have concerns similar to mine regarding the...
Hi Folk, I suspect that I'm not the only one that doesn't have time to wade through the various threads trying to figure out who's opinion (if any) is most ...
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Unfortunately this is all too typical of Sun's inept handling of its software portfolio. Sun is a company run by clever hardware engineers and their bossman...
... And the above helps.... how? Cheers ... -- Ian R. Nandhra Phone : 209 532 8919 FINDbase LLC FAX :...
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No Ian, it doesn't help, I am just trying to put the problem into perspective. I dont have an easy answer how to rectify this mess. You could lobby McNealy...
This isn't aimed at anyone and is >NOT< intended as a personal attack on anyone either - it's not as if I post that much :) The various differing views about...
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... Can you clarify what you mean by this? Is it the fact that companies might have to accept the SCSL to use the software? Have you ever found customers who...
... Good Question! I suspect that the majority of customers care more about functionality and can actually be driven away by apparent license disputes. How...
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Here's what I mean when I say I'm not comfortable about JINIs availability. We deliver software to customers for them to install and run. All of the final...
... If you are ignorant, I will join you - it's what happens when you get lawyers involved in things. But for the legal department, so much would have been...
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<<Extensible Markup Language co-author Tim Bray has joined Sun Microsystems Inc. as technical director of the company's software group, reporting to Sun...
Hi, Good news! We are recruiting for our head office in Windsor, England. We are looking for talented people just like you, that have passion for technology...
... I guess the important parts of the SCSL to me are the following pieces: 2. Additional Requirements and Responsibilities. a) Distribution of Source Code....
... What? Jini comes with free beer? When did this start? Can it be downloaded through one of these "Internet Pipe" deals? Can we get lite beer? Or the Atkins...
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FYI: The Blitz JavaSpace stats visualization tools will be on display at the 7th Jini Community Meeting next week! There are some preview screenshots of these...
A number of you attended this event. I trust you had a productive time. I gather from one source that only two commercial end-users and one journalist...
NYJavaSIG is a very interesting Group based in New York (there's a surprise). I believe a lot of the members are concerned with developing apps for financial...
<<Sun also said Friday that it plans to cut 3,300 jobs after it issued an earnings warning. <Sun and Microsoft reach a deal on antitrust and patent issues,...
<<This agreement leads me to wonder what's next for Sun. If McNealy isn't ashamed to publicly back "seamless computing" — which has become Gates' favored...
Just seen an interesting viewpoint in Internetweek as follows "The wide-ranging pact calls for seamless interoperability between Windows and Solaris Unix...
<<But the reason that these two longtime foes were talking friendly was the recognition that more dangerous mutual threats loom on the horizon. <In case you've...
I have been looking into this meeting further and it appears that there were a few more non-ICT end-user companies than I first stated, at least seven plus the...
<<The recent settlement also explains something else - why Sun has rejected requests from the OSS community to open-source (yes, this is now a transitive verb)...
Hi, I am trying to get applets working in web browsers, at least IE if possible, which can then access JavaSpaces on the server, download an object, compute...
