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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/23

SAP and Microsoft are supposedly ganging up on Oracle with a new marketing agreement.  Microsoft agreed to recommend SAP's BusinessObjects Planning...

0 replies - 12 views - 11/23/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today.  According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures...

0 replies - 1806 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/16

A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Psystar's Mac clones infringe on Apple's copyrights.  Psystar made the case that it could run the Mac OS X on non-Apple...

0 replies - 2072 views - 11/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/14

If Oracle were to sell MySQL to a third-party, who would it be?  Many thought Red Hat was the obvious choice with thier JBoss open source division. ...

0 replies - 2593 views - 11/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/12

Ken Auletta, the author of "Google: The End of The World As We Know It",  recently revealed that Google was interested in buying the New York...

0 replies - 2656 views - 11/12/09 by lyndsey in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/9

An SAP spokesperson confirmed that the company's CEO Leo Apotheker sent a letter to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison less than two weeks after the EU antitrust probe...

0 replies - 2361 views - 11/09/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Has the Motorola Droid 'Force' Hit You?

The buzz surrounding Motorola's Droid, one of the most anticipated handsets to date, reached a deafening peak today.  In an effort to compete with the iPhone,...

5 replies - 3399 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/6

After being criticized for selling Facebook fans and Twitter followers, uSocial says it has started selling YouTube viewers as well.  uSocial says companies...

0 replies - 2460 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report.  Just a few weeks ago, the EU's...

1 replies - 2731 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last.  The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface...

0 replies - 3524 views - 10/30/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29

The US Department of Defence released a memo saying that they allow and encourage the use of open source software.  It took them six years to clarify this...

0 replies - 3000 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/23

Firefox may release its upcoming version 3.6 as a so-called "minor update" even though it is actually a fairly major one.  Mike Beltzner, director...

0 replies - 2962 views - 10/22/09 by lyndsey in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/22

According to Amazon, the world's biggest software company has also racked up the largest number of pre-orders of any product, EVER! That's right, Amazon...

0 replies - 2809 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Giant Eclair Heralds Android 2.0

Google just added a new oversized confection to their front lawn where the giant Android robot resides.  The odd ritual is based on a precedent for new...

0 replies - 2565 views - 10/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Intel Announces a Developer Program for Atom Platform

Intel is looking to build a developer community around its Atom processor.  At the Intel Developer Sept. 22, CEO Paul Otellini introduced the Atom Developer...

2 replies - 1933 views - 09/23/09 by CodeJustin in News