Sun has joined the club of companies building platforms for Rich Internet Application (RIA) platforms with JavaFX. The company hopes to give Java, which is in the process of being open sourced by Sun, a boost with the FX twist, joining Adobe's Flash and Apollo and Microsoft's Silverlight as a scripting environments for creating RIA Web experiences across various devices.
Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the J2ME Connected Device Configuration (CDC) and Foundation profile for Linux.
Shortly after Independence Day 2010, Education Corp. of America will open its first in a series of what the company hopes will become a series of campuses focused on offering degrees in renewable energy technology and sustainable design principles.
A post on the virtues (and meaningfulness) of cross platform is coming, but after seeing this on Digg today, I had to say something, because it really proves what I've been alluding to all this time - cross platform matters. I'll go more into detail on this later this week, but economically, it may not make sense. However if you do cross platform well, you win. Pass go, collect $200, you're going to Disneyland, put on the green jacket; you win. Why? Because the people that use Linux are absolutely crazy - in a good way.
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Last week, while at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun drew some major lines in the sand for Java and now, about the only thing we can do is sit back and watch to see what happens. If I had to sum up what I heard, it's that the battle for supremacy in the RIA space (that's Rich Interactive Application if you're Microsoft, Rich Internet Application if you're not) will be fought in the mobile and embedded spaces.
Barring a sudden cold shoulder from IBM, a gaffe by Sun Microsystems, or some other unlikely event, Java is on track to become one of the primary programming languages of e-commerce. And it should provide a bright future for those who know their way around the Beans and Enterprise Editions.
Open-source software is the future, and it is free, assuming it can survive capitalism.
The infrastructure and tools required to make Linux a green operating system are now in place, according to Linus Torvalds, who was in Melbourne this week attending Australia's largest Linux conference.
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) might be in full throws this week, but some of the coolest devices may be found off the Net -- blueprints and all. A burgeoning trend in open source hardware is putting up some devices on the Web -- from machines that make anything (including themselves) to cars -- with the specs to make them yourself.
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