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<title><![CDATA[[JavaOne] Sun Hands Keys Of Java To Oracle]]></title>
<link>http://techpulse360.com/2009/06/02/javaone-sun-gives-keys-of-java-to-oracle/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jean-Baptiste Su</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Sun co-founder (right) hands-off the keys of his company to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison It was q]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><img class=" " title="Sun co-founder Scott McNealy (right) hands-off the keys of his company to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2474/3589665915_911cce0de3.jpg" alt="Sun co-founder (right) hands-off the keys of his company to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison" width="400" height="266" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sun co-founder (right) hands-off the keys of his company to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison</p></div>
<p>It was quite an emotional moment when Sun&#8217;s co-founder passed on the keys of his company to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.</p>
<p>Now Java is all Oracle&#8217;s, which includes Java the language, Java the platform (virtual machines, APIs), the newly announced JavaStore (for desktop apps only), JavaFX (a graphical user interface for Java programs), Netbeans (a rising development platform) and Glassfish, an open source application server and direct competitor to RedHat&#8217;s JBoss.</p>
<p>At the show, Sun also announced it&#8217;s upcoming Sun Cloud which should be released incrementally throughout Summer.</p>
<p>I just can&#8217;t help to think that Ellison made quite a deal buying a $14 billion-revenue company for half that, at only $7.4 billion. Can&#8217;t beat that!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[IBM To Buy Sun?]]></title>
<link>http://techpulse360.com/2009/03/18/ibm-to-buy-sun-microsystems/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jean-Baptiste Su</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for a mere $6.5 ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3422/3365099340_801b185840_m.jpg" title="IBM is in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems for real cheap" class="alignleft" width="240" height="180" />Today, the Wall Street Journal <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/18/ibms-flirtation-with-sun-the-next-volley-in-the-data-center-war/">reports</a> that IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for a mere $6.5 billion in cash, less $1.63 billion the Silicon Valley company has already in the bank. </p>
<p>A chump change for Big Blue which has about $12.7 billion in its cash reserve, but a 100 per cent premium for the Santa Clara, Calif.-company stockholders! </p>
<p>What a reverse of fortune for Sun which also approached H-P. I remember co-founder Scott McNealy telling me last year that before anyone think of acquiring his company they will have to have it least $20 billion. Now, it&#8217;s about a quarter of that.</p>
<p>An IBM-Sun combination would become undisputedly the world&#8217;s largest server maker with 42 per cent market share, against H-P (29.5 per cent) and Dell (11.6 per cent); as well as a formidable force in the data center arena, open source software and storage.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Startup Central]]></title>
<link>http://budmantechnotes.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/startup-central/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sbudman</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[While our Nation&#8217;s economy freezes up, waiting to be completely overhauled, it may give some o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>While our Nation&#8217;s economy freezes up, waiting to be completely overhauled, it may give some of you at least a little bit of a warm feeling to know that things are still humming here in the Silicon Valley.</p>
<p>For proof, I offer up the Plug and Play Expo, happening in Sunnyvale.  It&#8217;s where startups meet VCs, business cards fly across the room, dozens upon dozens of pitches get heard .. and deals get done.</p>
<p>Among the startups we saw today are <a href="http://www.mylawsuit.com">www.mylawsuit.com</a>, a way to help both lawyers and plaintiffs get organized.  As you can imagine, this table had a steady stream of people asking questions about everything from housing, to divorce.</p>
<p>Also, <a href="http://www.apprema.com">www.apprema.com</a>, a site aiming at the gift-giving market.  Especially in tough times, this will make sending gifts, corporate or personal, faster, easier, and cheaper.</p>
<p>And how about <a href="http://www.everywun.com">www.everywun.com</a> .. this could change the way philanthropy is handled .. giving you a ridiculously easy way to contribute to a number of charities with the click of a mouse.</p>
<p>For the startups, it was a chance to meet investors, and hear from the likes of Scott McNealy and super VC Tim Draper.  For the investors, a chance to get a bead on what&#8217;s on the horizon.  Hint:  Lots of web apps, aimed at making our lives more efficient.</p>
<p>We wish them luck.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Miopía vs. Ojo de águila]]></title>
<link>http://jordialonso.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/miopia-vs-ojo-de-aguila/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jalonso</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Es curioso mirar hacia atrás en el tiempo, y ver lo que dijeron dos ilustres personajes del mundo de]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Es curioso mirar hacia atrás en el tiempo, y ver lo que dijeron dos ilustres personajes del mundo de la informática:</p>
<p><strong>Bill Gates</strong>, fundador de Microsoft dijo en 1984 a un comentario sobre el direccionamiento limitado de memoria de MS-DOS: <em>&#8220;no veo por qué nadie que no sea un banco vaya a necesitar más de 1MB de memoria para su ordenador personal&#8221;.</em> 24 años después Windows Vista requiere 1GB de memoria RAM para funcionar &#8220;decentemente&#8221;.<br />
<strong>Scott McNealy </strong> fundador de Sun Microsystems, en cambio, decía en 1985: <em>&#8220;The network is the computer&#8221;</em> (La red es el ordenador) &#8211; sólo hay que ver a Google para darse cuenta del acierto de la predicción 23 años después.</p>
<p><strong>Bill Gates</strong>, comparando los avances de los PC&#8217;s con los coches, menospreciando a la industria automovilística, a finales de los 90 dijo: <em>&#8220;los ordenadores son 50 veces más rápidos, son 100 veces más eficientes y cuestan 10 veces menos que hace 20 años, si los coches hubieran avanzado de igual forma, &#8230;&#8221;, </em>la reacción no se hizo esperar, y los fabricantes comentaron: <em>&#8220;cada vez que sacáramos un nuevo modelo tendríamos que dar un curso a nuestros clientes, y cuando tuviéramos que dar un frenazo de emergencia nos diría ¿está usted seguro de querer frenar?&#8221;</em>, entre otras perlas&#8230;<br />
Para ver la visión más acertada de su contrincante, <strong>Scott McNealy </strong>en 1999 dijo en la revista Wired sobre la privacidad <em>&#8220;You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it&#8221;</em> (De todos modos, tienes privacidad cero. Supéralo). Un montón de empresas se escandalizaron ante esta afirmación de una persona como él, con su empresa en la Online Privacy Alliance.</p>
<p>Pues hoy, para ver de nuevo el acierto de McNealy, quería comentaros un artículo que he leído en USA Today, donde aseguran que los fabricantes de impresoras láser, están obligados por los gobiernos a imprimir el número de serie mediante un código especial de pequeños puntos que van apareciendo en las hojas que imprime una impresora determinada, por tanto haciendo posible identificar de forma única de qué impresora ha salido cierto documento. En una prueba hecha sobre 111 impresoras láser de 13 compañías distintas, se han podido comprobar la diferencia de estos puntos. Los servicios secretos, por supuesto, saben cómo identificar estos puntos y de ahí obtener el número de serie. Parece ser que si los fabricantes no implementan esto, no estarían autorizados a vender las impresoras.<br />
Lo dicho, cuando alguien se queja de la cookies de los navegadores, y lleva GPS en el coche, se baja versiones piratas de software, descarga películas ilegales, o se ha comprado un iPhone, yo le diría &#8220;Get over it&#8221;, porque ya está fichado seguro <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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