CodeFutures News & Industry Commentary Blog
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Spring Overtakes EJB as a Skills Requirement
Rod Johnson uses job listing statistics to
make the argument that Spring has overtaken EJB as a technology of choice for Java application development:
Job listings are a good indicator of the true adoption of technologies. They
indicate whether or not companies are spending money, making it possible to
distinguish substance from hype; they indicate the importance for developers of
gaining and growing the relevant skills (an important element of technology
perpetuation); and they provide a good guide to the safety for companies in
adopting a particular technology.
CodeFutures can confirm that we got so many requests for Spring support in FireStorm/DAO that we just had to do it.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
John Crupi on TV!
JackBe’s CTO, John Crupi was a guest analyst on Fox Business Network. You can
watch the video clip here.
JackBe has also been in the news recently after winning the Best Enterprise Mashup Platform in InfoWorld 2008 Technology of the Year Awards.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Sun Acquires MySQL
Sun has acquired MySQL for $800 million in cash and $200 million in stock. The move is consistent with Sun's recent open source strategy and should certainly shake up the market by making Sun a real player in the database space. It's said that only 1% of MySQL users actually pay for deployment support - but that does not change the fact that Sun will now have one of the key parts of the LAMP stack. I presume that Sun will try to leverage MySQL to sell more X86 Linux hardware into LAMP stack users.
It should be noted that MySQL is Sun's second open source database product (Java DB is the first).
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Oracle Buys BEA
Oracle Corporation has finally concluded the deal to acquire BEA Systems Inc. for $8.5 billion.
Will products be cut? Probably. Will prices rise? Definitely!
Monday, January 07, 2008
seeMore Wins Best Database Middleware Award
seeMore Technologies has
won InfoWorld's Best Database Middleware award.
This is what InforWorld has to say about seeMore:
This brilliant tool from seeMore Technologies will enable a large enterprise to gather its far-flung databases -- regardless of their origins -- under a single, relational roof. The Virtual Database Server seeks to provide access to just about any data source, even flat text files and highly structured COBOL databases, through standard ODBC, JDBC, or OLEDB interfaces.
