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14
Dec

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for OSX (Henrik on Java)

Oracle and Apple just issued the following press release:

REDWOOD SHORES and CUPERTINO, California–November 12, 2010–Oracle and Apple® today announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS® X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for a new graphical client. OpenJDK will make Apple’s Java technology available to open source developers so they can access and contribute to the effort.

“We are excited to welcome Apple as a significant contributor in the growing OpenJDK community,” said Hasan Rizvi, Oracle’s senior vice president of Development. “The availability of Java on Mac OS X plays a key role in the cross-platform promise of the Java platform. The Java developer community can rest assured that the leading edge Java environment will continue to be available on Mac OS X in the future. Combined with last month’s announcement of IBM joining the OpenJDK, the project now has the backing of three of the biggest names in software.”

“We’re delighted to be working with Oracle to insure that there continues to be a great version of Java on the Mac,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “The best way for our users to always have the most up to date and secure version of Java will be to get it directly from Oracle.”

Apple also confirmed that Java SE 6 will continue to be available from Apple for Mac OS X Snow Leopard® and the upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion. Java SE 7 and future versions of Java for Mac OS X will be available from Oracle.

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This announcement is the result of a discussion between Oracle and Apple that has been going on for some time. I understand that the uncertainty since Apple’s widely circulated “deprecation” of Java has been frustrating, but due to the nature of these things we have neither wanted to or been able to communicate before. That is as it is, I’m afraid.

For the sake of all Java developers out there, I am very happy that the future of Java on OSX is now assured. I’m sure you have tons of questions, so let me start with a few:

Q: When will JDK 7 be available for OSX?

A: My expectation is that we will release on current supported platforms first, and that OSX support will follow later. The JDK 7 schedule can not easily accomodate large changes like the addition of a new platform.

Q: How much later? What about subsequent releases, will they be simultaneuous with other platforms?

A: Too early to say, sorry.

Q: I love Java and OSX! How can I be part of this?

A: Join OpenJDK as a contributor. Or apply for a position with Oracle (examples, more examples), we’re hiring!

More information will follow over the coming weeks and months. Until then, safe coding!

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13
Dec

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10
Dec

The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee : The Apache Software Foundation Blog

The Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee.  Apache has served on the EC for the past 10 years, winning the JCP “Member of the Year” award 4 times, and recently was ratified for another term with support from 95% of the voting community.  Further, the project communities of the ASF, home to Apache Tomcat, Ant, Xerces, Geronimo, Velocity and nearly a 100 mainstay java components have implemented countless JSRs and serve on and contribute to many of the JCPs technical expert groups.

We’d like to provide some explanation to the community as to why we’re taking this significant step.

The recent Java SE 7 vote was the last chance for the JCP EC to demonstrate that the EC has any intent to defend the JCP as an open specification process, and demonstrate that the letter and spirit of the law matter.   To sum up the issues at stake in the vote, we believe that while continuing to fail to uphold their responsibilities under the JSPA, Oracle provided the EC with a Java SE 7 specification request and license that are self-contradictory, severely restrict distribution of independent implementations of the spec, and most importantly, prohibit the distribution of independent open source implementations of the spec.  Oracle has refused to answer any reasonable and responsible questions from the EC regarding these problems.

In the phrase “fail to uphold their responsibilities under the JSPA”, we are referring to Oracle’s refusal to provide the ASF’s Harmony project with a TCK license for Java SE that complies with Oracle’s obligations under the JSPA as well as public promises made to the Java community by officers of Sun Microsystems (recently acquired by Oracle.)  This breach of the JSPA was begun by Sun Microsystems in August of 2006 and is a policy that Oracle explicitly continues today.  For more information on this dispute, see our open letter to Sun Microsystems.

This vote was the only real power the Executive Committee has as the governing body of the Java specification ecosystem, and as we indicated previously we were looking for the EC to protect the rights of implementers to the degree they are able, as well as preserve the integrity of the JCP licensing structure by ensuring that JCP specifications are able to be freely implemented and distributed.  We don’t believe this is an unreasonable position – it should be noted that the majority of the EC members, including Oracle, have publicly stated that restrictions on distribution such as those found in the Java SE 7 license have no place in the JCP – and two distinguished individual members of the EC, Doug Lea and Tim Peierls, both have resigned in protest over the same issue.

By approving Java SE 7, the EC has failed on both counts : the members of the EC refused to stand up for the rights of implementers, and by accepting Oracle’s TCK license terms for Java SE 7, they let the integrity of the JCP’s licensing structure be broken.

The Apache Software Foundation concludes that that JCP is not an open specification process – that Java specifications are proprietary technology that must be licensed directly from the spec lead under whatever terms the spec lead chooses; that the commercial concerns of a single entity, Oracle, will continue to seriously interfere with and bias the transparent governance of the ecosystem;  that it is impossible to distribute independent implementations of JSRs under open source licenses such that users are protected from IP litigation by expert group members or the spec lead; and finally, the EC is unwilling or unable to assert the basic power of their role in the JCP governance process.

In short, the EC and the Java Community Process are neither.

To that end, our representative has informed the JCP’s Program Management Office of our resignation, effective immediately.  As such, the ASF is removing all official representatives from any and all JSRs. In addition, we will refuse any renewal of our JCP membership and, of course, our EC position.

The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee : The Apache Software Foundation Blog.

25
Nov

HP looks to shut out Oracle with Salesforce deal | ITworld

HP is set to sign a major deal with Salesforce in what could be a blow to Oracle. According to press reports, the computer giant is looking to ditch its CRM software, Oracle Siebel and sign a deal with Salesforce to support 35,000 to 40,000 seats.

If the deal comes through it would be the culmination of a couple of simmering feuds: HP would be giving a fingers-up to its former chief executive Mark Hurd, who joined Oracle as co-president, after resigning from HP after sexual harassment accusation. And new HP CEO Leo Apotheker was embroiled in a vicious legal battle with Oracle when he was CEO of SAP.

The deal, however, would not be about settling scores. According to one analyst, quoted in International Business Times, moving to Salesforce would save HP a hefty slice of cash. “Contacts tell us that by moving to Salesforce, HPQ may be saving 40% – 50% over ORCL Siebel,” Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at Global Equities Research is quoted as saying.

Chowdry, whose analyst note started the rumours, added that the Salesforce was hoping to announce the deal at its forthcoming Dreamforce event.

Both HP and Salesforce would not comment on the reports but the SaaS company has been bullish about its prospects. The company has just announced the results of its third quarter has reported revenues of $429, an increase of a whopping 30% year on year. The company said that it was on course to deliver $2 billion in revenue in 2012.

HP looks to shut out Oracle with Salesforce deal | ITworld.

19
Nov

Oracle is anticompetitive, services group tells DOJ | ITworld

IDG News Service —

A trade group for computer-service providers has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to block Oracle’s policies on customers using third-party service providers for Sun Microsystems gear.

The Service Industry Association (SIA), made up of 134 companies that offer aftermarket maintenance of computer hardware, claimed on Wednesday that Oracle has changed the policies on maintenance of Sun equipment to discourage users from using third-party support companies. Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun early this year.

The SIA accused Oracle of making the changes in order to capture an estimated US$2.4 billion of business done by independent service organizations (ISOs) with Sun customers. It accused Oracle of pushing customers toward buying all their maintenance services from Oracle and of imposing requalification fees on customers that go to a third party for maintenance and later want to go back to Oracle.

The SIA wrote to Oracle with its complaints in May, according to documents on the group’s website. In a response in June, Oracle rejected the allegations.

ISOs do about half the maintenance on Sun hardware, said Claudia Betzner, the SIA’s executive director. On average, they charge about 35 percent less for their services than do the original equipment vendors, she said.

Oracle officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

Oracle is anticompetitive, services group tells DOJ | ITworld.

12
Nov

Oracle defends MySQL support pricing changes | ITworld

November 11, 2010, 02:16 PM — IDG News Service —

Oracle may have raised the price of an entry-level support contract for its MySQL database, but customers are going to get a lot more than they did from former owner Sun Microsystems, according to an official blog post Wednesday.

News emerged last week that the lowest-price MySQL support contract from Oracle is now US$2,000 per server per year. Before Oracle acquired Sun, a basic support offering for $599 per server per year was available.

While the $599 option has been dropped, “it included just access to patches and updates and [the] ability to call only within business hours and get resolution for only two incidents per year — very, very limited support. This was not a popular option anyway,” states the post by Oracle senior director of product marketing Monica Kumar.

The $2,000 per server price point for Standard Edition grants customers unlimited, around-the-clock support as well as a Workbench tool, in all a “much higher level of support and more functionality,” Kumar wrote.

Oracle is also offering an Enterprise Edition support option at $5,000 per server per year.

A separate product, MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition, is now available via subscription for the first time at $10,000 per server per year, Kumar wrote.

In all cases, customers are receiving “better support and more features than in the past,” she said.

However, Kumar did not mention that those pricing levels are for servers with between one and four sockets. For ones with five or more, the subscription fee is doubled, according to an Oracle price list posted Nov. 1.

Oracle defines a socket as “a slot that houses a chip (or a multi-chip module), which contains a collection of one or more cores,” according to the price list. “Regardless of the number of cores, each chip (or multi-chip module) counts as a single socket.”

Kumar also sought to dispel any confusion over whether the InnoDB storage engine is still included in MySQL’s freely available Community Edition.

It most certainly is, she wrote, although MySQL Classic Edition, a version meant for embedded use by ISVs, swaps in the MyISAM engine.

Oracle defends MySQL support pricing changes | ITworld.

11
Nov

Apache declares war on Oracle over Java | ITworld

Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation has called upon other members of the Java Community Process (JCP) to vote against the next proposed version of the language, should Oracle continue to impose restrictions on open-source Java use.

The nonprofit organization has also indicated that it could end its involvement in the JCP if the licensing restrictions stay in place.

“Why would we want to be in an organization where the rules of law don’t matter? Our being on the [JCP Executive Committee] would be a sham. It would show that the community doesn’t matter, that we’d basically cave into Oracle pushing stuff through, whether or not it would be in the best interest of the community,” said Jim Jagielski, president and cofounder of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), in an interview with the IDG News Service.

This is not a new battle for the ASF, and for the JCP as a whole. It has been such a contentious issue, in fact, that it has long delayed the voting process of the next version of the Java standard, Java 7. But the battle lines have recently been redrawn and the discussion over the JCP itself has reached a fevered pitch.

In October, the ASF was ratified for another three-year term on the JCP Executive Committee (EC), by an overwhelming 95 percent margin. Now, the ASF is hoping to use this influence to get Oracle to relinquish the Field-of-Use (FOU) restrictions that the Java trademark’s former owner, Sun Microsystems, placed on the technology. Oracle purchased Sun in January.

It was a victory in an otherwise dire month for the ASF. At that time, IBM announced that it was shifting developer support from Apache’s own open-source version of the Java Standard Edition, called Project Harmony, to another open-source project, the OpenJDK.

IBM was one of the staunchest supporters of Apache’s position on the FOU, and its move to the OpenJDK at least suggests that the company would support Oracle in an upcoming vote on Java 7, Jagielski speculated.

If so, Big Blue would be joining a number of other organizations willing to let Oracle have its way, for the good of the language as a whole, including Red Hat and the Eclipse Foundation.

The battle revolves around whether restrictions should be placed on how open-source versions of Java are used.

Apache declares war on Oracle over Java | ITworld.

19
Oct

Rising Open Source BPM Company Bonitasoft now has Offices in Oracle’s Back Yard

Rising Open Source BPM Company Bonitasoft now has Offices in Oracle’s

I’m not going to lie, Bonitasoft‘s success could probably give a lot of American entrepreneurs a run for their money. Based out of Grenoble, France, the 30-person team that that specializes in open source business process management (BPM) solutions is on its way to becoming France’s next “open source star”, following in the footsteps of Talend and ExoPlatform. And after 8 years of R&D at INRIA (the French national institute for research in computer science), the company officially founded in June 2009 has announced that it is setting-up shop in the US just a few months after its first birthday – with offices in San Francisco and Boston.

According to CEO and co-founder, Miguel Valdès-Faura, the strategy of the company has been to target customers that are after something less expensive and more flexible than the solutions of bigger BMP players, like IBM-Lombardi, Oracle or Pega.

Rising Open Source BPM Company Bonitasoft now has Offices in Oracle’s Back Yard.

13
Oct

Slashdot Developers Story | Oracle’s Newest Move To Undermine Android

“Oracle’s decision to shift focus from the Harmony Java open source project to OpenJDK seems innocuous enough — but InfoWorld’s Josh Fruhlinger explains it’s part of an effort to derail Google’s mobile Android OS by gutting the open source project that Android has been driven by. IBM has signed on, apparently in return for getting the Java Community Process reactivated, leaving Google in a bind.”

Slashdot Developers Story | Oracle’s Newest Move To Undermine Android.

21
Sep

Oracle pushes deeper into cloud technology | Stuff.co.nz

Oracle pushes deeper into cloud technology

Oracle, the world’s number 3 software maker, unveiled a new all-in-one product to help companies manage so-called “cloud” computing.

Chief Executive Larry Ellison opened Oracle’s annual technology and user conference on Sunday by revealing Exalogic, which combines server, storage and networking technology with Oracle’s software, that companies will use to run their business applications.

Oracle competes with European software giant SAP AG and International Business Machines (IBM) in the business software and database products markets.

It also vies with hardware vendors such as Hewlett-Packard after a multi-billion dollar purchase of Sun Microsystems earlier this year.

Ellison attempted to wrest control of the term “cloud,” a word that’s meaning is the subject of much debate, as he described Exalogic as a “cloud in a box.”

“The whole idea of cloud computing is to have a pool of resources that is shared amongst lots of different applications inside your company,” he said.

He said Exalogic takes advantage of virtualization technologies and is elastic enough to meet surges in demand for computing power within companies.

Ellison hopes to double the size of Oracle’s hardware business, taking share from IBM and others.

BACKDROP OF DRAMA

The OpenWorld conference – which attracts more than 40,000 people – is expected to feature more drama than in years past because of Mark Hurd, the recently ousted CEO of Hewlett-Packard, who Ellison has just hired as president.

The move prompted HP to sue Hurd, and Ellison to fire some harsh words HP’s way. The two companies have been partners for more than two decades — with more than 140,000 joint customers — but the relationship has appeared strained.

The spat did not prevent HP from making a high-profile appearance at the Oracle conference, although Ellison did not appear on stage with any HP executives.

Ann Livermore, who runs HP’s enterprise business, had been scheduled to speak at OpenWorld long before the Hurd controversy erupted.

Livermore noted how connected the two companies’ businesses are. HP has roughly 12,000 IT services employees who do nothing but work on Oracle systems, she said.

Oracle’s software runs on HP servers and storage products, but the companies are now competing more directly, as Oracle pushes into the server market.

Oracle on Thursday reported better-than-expected net profit and sales, helped by strong demand for its new business software and faster-than-expected growth of its new hardware business.

Hurd was named co-president of Oracle on September 6, replacing Charles Phillips. Oracle shares surged when his hiring was announced.

via Oracle pushes deeper into cloud technology | Stuff.co.nz.