October 28th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in Uncategorized
Here’s the updated FAQ. Short summary: Oracle plans to keep and invest in all Sun products such as: Netbeans, Glassfish, MySQL, VirtualBox, and OpenOffice.
April 20th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java, oracle
Oracle is probably the biggest user of the java applet technology. Oracle Forms runs as an Applet in the browser. Now, Oracle Forms isn’t the hippest tool ever, people have been expecting it to die for a couple of years. But it’s still around. Mainly because Oracle still uses Forms in their Oracle E-Business Suite.
Recently, [...]
April 20th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java, oracle, oss
So Oracle just bought Sun. At first look it might seem like closed source versus open source. Most of Oracle’s well known products are closed source, whereas most of Sun’s products are open source. But that’s not the full story. Oracle is also involved in Open Source. It just takes a different approach.
There are a [...]
April 6th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in oracle, oss, software development
Interesting discussion on friendfeeds new database usage: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data. It’s basically a key-value database implemented on top of mysql, to get around schema-change and index performance problems in mysql.
There is a lot of activity around non-RDBMS databases recently. Although it’s always interesting to see new development and innovation, [...]
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