InfoWorld: “”Our entire line of development tools, both our Java development tools as well as C, C++, and Fortran tools, will be made available on Linux by the end of this calendar year,” said Sanjay Sarathy, director for developer programs at Sun, on Wednesday.
Tools included in this effort are Sun Studio, Sun Java Studio Enterprise, and the upcoming Sun Java Studio Creator, which the company has been portraying as its easy-to-use tool for Java development.”
Sun will also launch a second version of it’s Java Desktop System:
InfoWorld: “Sun released last year the debut version of the Java Desktop System (JDS), its attempt to win a share in the desktop operating system (OS) and applications market away from Microsoft Corp. The software is currently selling at a promotional price of $50 per user, per year, but the cost will rise to the product’s planned selling price of $100 per user with JDS’ second release, according to Peder Ulander, Sun’s desktop products marketing director.
While the first release of JDS focused on the software’s user side, version two will beef up the product’s functionality for administrators, Ulander said, with features such as a desktop updates tool to ease deployments of patches and new software. Administrators will also be able to remotely manage aspects of their users’ desktop environments, customizing features and application options, for example, according to users’ job roles.”
MadPenguin.org: “While I see potential in this desktop, it has a long way to go before it is ready for mass consumption. It’s obvious that this is their first attempt at a Linux desktop, but in the same respect it shows that Sun at least is making an effort in this newly emerging market. The good thing is that we are not quite ‘there’ yet with the Linux desktop so they have some time to hone their offerings a bit… this is assuming that they continue their desktop OS efforts, and I recommend they do. Sun is a strong force in the market, so they have potential to do much more with the desktop than they are. With some guidance, I think they can make it there.”
C|Net: “Take a look at Sun Microsystems’ recently relaunched Java developer Web site, and you’ll see something new: a picture of James Gosling.
Despite being one of the primary inventors of the popular development language, Gosling spent the last couple years detached from daily development of Java within Sun. The well-known software engineer took a “technologist’s vacation” and started his own research project, called “Jackpot,” looking at ways to make programming easier.
Now, Gosling can don the “Java guru” hat again.”
IBM developerWorks: “Even though most Linux users have treated Linux as an operating system for their x86 white boxes, Linux runs equally well on PowerPC machines. David looks at Linux on the PowerPC and the appealing range of PPC machines produced by Apple, where the option of using Linux is of great value to many users.”
IBM developerWorks: “In the early days of Java technology, allocating objects got a pretty bad rap. There were lots of articles (including some by this author) advising developers to avoid creating temporary objects unnecessarily because allocation (and the corresponding garbage-collection overhead) was expensive. While this used to be good advice (in situations where performance was significant), it is no longer generally applicable to all but the most performance-critical situations.”
Joel Spolski: “For some reason, Microsoft’s brilliant and cutting-edge .NET development environment left out one crucial tool… a tool that has been common in software development environments since, oh, about 1950, and taken so much for granted that it’s incredibly strange that nobody noticed that .NET doesn’t really have one.
The tool in question? A linker. Here’s what a linker does. It combines the compiled version of your program with the compiled versions of all the library functions that your program uses. Then, it removes any library functions that your program does not use. Finally, it produces a single executable binary program which people can run on their computers.”
A while ago I saw zef.nu wasn’t registered yet so I registered it (the Dutch word ‘nu’ means now). Today I set up some blogging software and I might be using it for a dutch blog about more local stuff, such as movies on tv, things I heard on the radio etc.
Zef.Nu (about the shortest domain you can imagine :P)
