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Oracle is an open source of concern – Irish Times

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Irish Times

Oracle is an open source of concern
Irish Times
Oracle's ownership of Java and its patents also became involved in controversy almost immediately. To kick things off, James Gosling, the eminent Sun ...
Gosling Dishes on His Culture Clash with OracleeWeek (blog)
Sun acquisition boosts Oracle's data center lineIDG News Service
Oracle loses another Sun stalwartIT PRO

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Gosling Dishes on His Culture Clash with Oracle – eWeek (blog)

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Gosling Dishes on His Culture Clash with Oracle
eWeek (blog)
The creator of Java, James Gosling, left Oracle back in April after the software giant acquired Sun Microsystems. Gosling announced his departure from the ...

Oracle loses another Sun stalwart – IT PRO

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Oracle loses another Sun stalwart
IT PRO
The most public, and most recent, departure was James Gosling, the creator of Java, last week who did not speak well of Oracle's management. ...

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Sure Enough, the OpenOffice Community Is Seeking Independence from Oracle – OStatic (blog)

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Sure Enough, the OpenOffice Community Is Seeking Independence from Oracle
OStatic (blog)
As we noted in that post, after the Java brouhaha and Oracle's still fairly recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems--long the steward of OpenOffice--"the ...

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K-State researchers honoured for influential contributions to software … – Science Centric

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K-State researchers honoured for influential contributions to software ...
Science Centric
The team published 'Bandera: Extracting Finite-State Models from Java Source code' in 2000. The publication recently received the Most Influential Paper ...

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Oracle’s New Kernel: Custom Tuning or Proprietary Lock-In? – TechNewsWorld

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Oracle's New Kernel: Custom Tuning or Proprietary Lock-In?
TechNewsWorld
Ever since the recent OpenSolaris and Java lawsuit incidents, Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) has not been high on most FOSS aficionados' lists of favorite companies. ...

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Web Architect / Team Lead – Metromode Media

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Metromode Media

Web Architect / Team Lead
Metromode Media
.Net and Java code development. This is a working team leader position in which the incumbent will manage the development activities of their team while ...

Susno charged as ringleader in graft cases – Jakarta Post

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Susno charged as ringleader in graft cases
Jakarta Post
The second charge against Susno relates to his position as West Java Police chief in 2008. He was accused of embezzling the police security budget for the ...

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Everyone but Oracle demands Java independence – Register

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Everyone but Oracle demands Java independence
Register
Oracle inherited Java FX from Sun, and it has declared that FX is the company's chosen technology for rich-internet applications and interfaces on Java ME ...
Oracle's Java father estrangediT News
Java poppa Gosling dubs Oracle 'duplicitous' over handling of JavaJava World
Java Guru James Gosling Pulls No Punches in Oracle DiatribeOStatic (blog)

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RIM launches new web app platform for BlackBerry – International Business Times AU

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RIM launches new web app platform for BlackBerry
International Business Times AU
It boasts of advance features similar to that of BlackBerry Java. On top of the existing BlackBerry web development tools, BlackBerry WebWorks has new tools ...

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Java poppa Gosling dubs Oracle ‘duplicitous’ over handling of Java – Java World

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Java poppa Gosling dubs Oracle 'duplicitous' over handling of Java
Java World
Oracle likely will prove victorious in its lawsuit against Google, Gosling said, noting that finding third-party experts to compare the Java code to the ...
The First Domino Falls: Oracle Loses a Part of SunMotley Fool

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Oracle’s Java father estranged – iT News

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Sun’s ZFS Creator to Quit Oracle and Join Startup – eWeek

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Sun's ZFS Creator to Quit Oracle and Join Startup
eWeek
Indeed, in an interview with eWEEK, Java creator James Gosling said a key part of his decision to leave Oracle was that his decision-making power over Java ...

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LibreOffice isn’t an OpenOffice fork… yet – Computerworld (blog)

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LibreOffice isn't an OpenOffice fork... yet
Computerworld (blog)
In general, Sun's top developers haven't been happy with Oracle anyway. James Gosling, Java's creator, left saying that Oracle had been low-balling key ...
OpenOffice files Oracle divorce papersRegister
More bad karma for Oracle on FOSS frontiTWire
OpenOffice.org splits from OracleHEXUS
CNET -IT Business Edge (blog) -PC Pro
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The First Domino Falls: Oracle Loses a Part of Sun – Motley Fool

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The First Domino Falls: Oracle Loses a Part of Sun
Motley Fool
Many Java developers are nervous about future support for the software they know and love, as Tibco Software (Nasdaq: TIBX) Vivek Ranadive told me when the ...

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K-State researchers honored for influential contributions to software … – PhysOrg.com (press release)

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K-State researchers honored for influential contributions to software ...
PhysOrg.com (press release)
The team published "Bandera: Extracting Finite-State Models from Java Source code" in 2000. The publication recently received the Most Influential Paper ...

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Open source versus proprietary – V3.co.uk

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Open source versus proprietary
V3.co.uk
Sceptics doubted whether Oracle would develop open source software Java following its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in April, but the company has since ...

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Java Guru James Gosling Pulls No Punches in Oracle Diatribe – OStatic (blog)

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Java Guru James Gosling Pulls No Punches in Oracle Diatribe
OStatic (blog)
Gosling, of course, was the creator of Java, and one of the most distinguished technology gurus at Sun Microsystems, which Oracle now owns. ...
The First Domino Falls: Oracle Loses a Part of SunMotley Fool

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RightScale Launches Cloud Package For Developers, Testers – InformationWeek

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RightScale Launches Cloud Package For Developers, Testers
InformationWeek
Front-end cloud management offerings expanded with server combinations for Java, PHP, Ruby, .Net software development. By Charles Babcock RightScale has ...

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Essential GWT – iProgrammer

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Essential GWT
iProgrammer
If you are an experienced Java programmer and understand many of the problems of creating a web application then this book contains a lot of very useful ...