JRuby finds a new home at Engine Yard

Engine Yard (EY) is a enterpricy (serious support and hosting, but pricy) Rails hosting service.  Two months ago at the JavaOne, Engine Yard announced that they will support JRuby. Since then a lot changed, Oracle bought Sun which raised a lot of questions about Sun’s products and frankly I don’t think it looks good [...]

Sun (Oracle) going to launch a Java App Store!

App Stores are the new trend, Apple kinda started it and others are following, e.g. Google Android. Guess who is next?  Java! Like every real star Java is a little bit late to the party, but the potential is huge. Let me explain why …

Oracle buys Sun!

Like the title says: Oracle buys Sun. After the failed acquisition from IBM, Oracle now jumps in and buys Sun.

I am still not sure what this means to the Java world, but this is big news! However, my first thought was: what happens now to MySQL?