Spencer F Katt speculates in his column in the January 15th copy of eWeek that Marc Fleury might be planning to leave JBoss, now part of Red Hat. Fleury has been out on paternity leave, and Katt believes that based on Fleury’s indication from a prior interview with eWeek in November, he is so disillusioned wuth Red Hat’s commitment (or lack of?) to JBoss, that he may not come back to the company.
JavaPosse discuss Java on iPhone, but Jobs says ‘no Java for you’?
In episode #99 of the Javaposse podcast, the group discussed how the Apple iPhone will be running full Mac OS X, and therefore not only should it be possible to run full OS X apps on the device, but this also likely means that a Java JM will be available. Since this device is more fully featured than any mobile device we’ve seen so far, will this mean it will run SE or ME?
There has been a number of posts and speculation, and a comment from Jobs as well, stating that Java would not be supported. Surely it would be a big mistake to not be able to cash in on the mobile Java apps market that has become so large over the last couple of years? ANyone know for certain whether Java will be supported?
On O’Reillynet.com: ‘Google Spreadsheets mean the end of Java’?
When I read articles like this from O’Reilly I can’t stop thinking about a spoof site that was around (is it still around?) called ‘O’Really’. The author of this article has an interesting point about Google leading the way forward for web based applications, and if Google are successfuly in this space then you bet Microsoft will be following in their footsteps with an exact clone on Google Spreadsheets. Microsoft already dipped their toe in this water a couple of years back with their ‘Hailstorm’ initiative to provide online services for everything (think subscription based on-demand online Microsoft applications), but they never got this off the ground – maybe it was ahead of it’s time? Anyway, Google are making a good go at this and you bet Microsoft are watching.
The author’s point though is a little far fetched, since there is always going to be server based processing of data of one kind or another. Ok,so now he’s got our attention, ‘it’s ok folks, nothing to see here, move along’ – you can all go back to your Eclipse or your Netbeans and continue working on your latest Java project…
Debian add’s it’s Linux flavor to the list of distros available for the PS3
Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) was the first out of the gate with their version of Linux for the PS3 available on launch day in the US. Next came news of Fedora Core 4 available for installation. Next up is Debian, with their version of Linux available for doanload and install on the PS3.
Apparently hardware support is limited in each of these distros, but I understand YDL has the best support so far, but it is still limited to access only 1 of the 8 Cell Processor cores, and doesn’t not have exclusive access to the PS3 NVidia RSX graphics chip, so you won’t be seeing any hot home-brew games based on Linux taking full advantage of the hardware just yet. Still, if you’re looking for a running general purpose OS to use from your sofa with a wireless keyboard and mouse, then there are a number of options out there.