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Daily Dose - What's the Honeycomb Version Number?

It looks like Google may hold on to the Android 3.0 title for another more spectacular future release.  As it stands, a source reports that the next version...

0 replies - 26787 views - 12/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Nominate Someone For The 2011 Eclipse Awards!

The Eclipse Foundation is now taking nominations for the 2011 Eclipse Community  Awards.  The deadline is January 28, 2011.  Categories for awards include...

0 replies - 21595 views - 12/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - U.S. Dept. of Justice Receives Complaint About Oracle Tactics

"Oracle’s position appears to be the most onerous and draconian of any major hardware manufacturer," claims Claudia Betzner, the executive director...

0 replies - 29697 views - 11/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Translating the PR-Speak in Oracle's Reply to the ASF

Over the last two days the back-and-forth over TCKs continued between Apache and Oracle.  Stephen Colebourne, a certified Java Champion, knows this issue very...

0 replies - 22508 views - 11/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Hudson Creator Joins CloudBees

After the creator of the popular, open source Hudson continuous integration tool left Oracle, he started his own company, InfraDNA, to continue Hudson...

0 replies - 18873 views - 11/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Oracle to Sell "Premium" JVM

Tweets coming out of the weekend's QCon conference revealed Oracle's plan for a premium JVM that comes with a price tag.  Adam Messinger, the Oracle VP of...

4 replies - 23829 views - 11/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - First Release of OpenStack is Out

The OpenStack project for open source, interoperable cloud computing and storage controllers has just released its first public version, codenamed...

1 replies - 15578 views - 10/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Spring Web Flow 2.2 GA

The final release of Spring Web Flow 2.2 is here bringing JSF 2.0 support and Portlet 2.0 support.  This version of Spring Web Flow implements Dojo 1.5,...

0 replies - 19217 views - 10/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - ZFS Finally Getting Data Encryption

Sun/Oracle developers have been working on bringing cryptography functions to ZFS, and now Oracle is announcing that this feature will likely be included in...

0 replies - 15651 views - 10/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

MySQL Fork "Drizzle" Shows Signs of Life

While other Sun projects such as OpenSolaris and OpenOffice.org were driven to make forks (Illumos and LibreOffice respectively) under Oracle's new leadership...

0 replies - 6661 views - 09/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - Chromium OS on the iPad

A developer who provides nightly Chromium builds has managed to port Google's Chromium OS to the iPad.  He posted a picture of the iPad's web page running in...

0 replies - 20662 views - 09/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - ZFS Creator Leaves Oracle

Jeff Bonwick, the software engineer who led the team that created ZFS, is leaving his position as an Oracle VP.  In his blog, Bonwick gave no sign of rancor...

1 replies - 15292 views - 09/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Lift Raised to the Next Level

The Scala-based web framework, Lift, has reached version 2.1 with a few new features to add to the large list from 2.0.  The support is now tighter for the...

0 replies - 16563 views - 09/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Google Code Allows More Licenses

Taking a page from the book of SourceForge today, Google has announced that it is now accepting all open source licenses approved by the Open Source...

0 replies - 9250 views - 09/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Daily Dose - Windows Phone 7 Launch is Oct. 11 Say Sources

According to several anonymous sources, allegedly from Microsoft, the GA launch of the Windows Phone 7 OS is scheduled for October 11th.  Pocket-lint said it...

0 replies - 18667 views - 09/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose