<<Mashups have arrived as the next web services battleground, with Microsoft Corp, Yahoo Inc, and America Online all this week announcing projects that will...
<<A new tool offers to create websites on any subject, allowing web surfers to sit back, relax and watch a virtual space automatically fill up with relevant...
<<While nuisances like bandwidth management, budgeting issues, and trust will continue to hamper adoption for many, the last few pieces that are really needed...
Eiren, Here is another article for you to get your teeth into: <<In the David-Goliath matchup between OpenOffice 2.0 and Microsoft Office, the little guy is...
Well, it looks as if Google is on the way to building a Web Office: <<Continuing its trend of gobbling up promising Web 2.0 startups, Google has acquired...
<<To understand why this deal is Peal Harbor for Microsoft, and a declaration of all out war for Google, i think one has to make a leap and consider that this...
Very interesting perspective from Paul Murphy here - and I think he is right about this particular elephant. That said I was using Open Office last year....
<<The next version of Novell's Inc's business Linux desktop will feature functionality that enables the OpenOffice.org productivity suite to cope with...
<<"There have been a number of language coming up lately," noted James Gosling today at Sun's World Wide Education & Research Conference in New York City when...
We are proposing to hold this conference in Andorra in November 2006 or January 2007, probably the latter. If this interests you, you can read about it at: ...
Interesting POV. One might argue that web services have made the write once run anywhere point moot (and that Gosling appears to be stuck in a pre-web services...
Write once run anywhere will always have a serious advantage, it stops OS lockin. This allows many scalability options, as well as allowing flexibility, in...
More specifically, Java is probably primarily used on the server side these days implementing systems that provide web services. Thus the issue of web...
It looks as if Open Office has improved somewhat: <<OpenOffice 2.0 has the chops to replace Microsoft Office in business offices, with a little help from...
<<The Queensland (Australia) University of Technology is in the early stages of a project that would implement Ruby on the .NET CLR, Bertrand Le Roy writes...
<<My observation is that the main technique Rails uses to improve developer productivity is code generation, even though Ruby's dynamic nature makes the code...
<<IronPython is the code name of the new Implementation Running on .NET of the Python programming language. It supports an interactive interpreter with fully...
<<We knew even then that we were slightly over the top. But we continue to believe that zero deployment, low cost of ownership, and the prospect of escaping...
I suppose we are doing something "unusual" in Java. Our frontend isn't a web browser, but a fat swing client. Seems like an eminently wise decision (to me),...
Craig, Putting my moderator's hat on, there is no need to keep the message traffic on this Group at a low flow rate. My SOA Group has had over 300 messages...
Over the last many months IronPython has become dependent on just the latest dotnet framework. Another approach is to use the regular Python implementation...
... We use fat swing clients for everything. But, we use Jini and ServiceUI to deploy the applications onto a single desktop application that lets have icons ...
<<The Economist takes a look at the successes and failures of the open source movement, and comes to this conclusion: "The most important thing holding back...
Here is the article from the Economist in question: Open, but not as usual Mar 16th 2006 From The Economist print edition As "open-source" models move beyond...
Interesting observation, although I suspect it's too late for Java in browser. Since MS removed it from IE (all winxp boxes), applets have been doomed I would...
Craig, Where you write you agree with me, these are not my words - they are the words of the blogger I am quoting. In my Groups I use "<<" and ">>" as ...
I am in contact in my day to day job with open-source developers. While it is well true that some of them are really volunteers, I must say that there are...
Whoops, my bad. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for your efforts with the list Gervas I find it one of the most interesting lists I'm on, with an excellent...
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