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 [...]
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 …
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?
Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, discusses current web trends. I actually like his cautious view of RIAs (although it conflicts with Sun’s current JavaFX direction). Some highlights of the interview:
WS* is already legacy.
WS* will be more and more replaced with RESTful services
RIAs are overrated, user like simple interfaces (I totally agree [...]
