Java News

Yahoo! and Gannett are hiring! Join them and recruiters from other top media companies and universities at the ONA09 Career Summit & Job Fair, Thursday, Oct. 1, at the Hilton San Francisco to hear about current openings. Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Front Page, Yahoo! Media, and Yahoo! Talent Acquisition all will be on site to recruit talent for positions in Sunnyvale and Santa Monica, Calif., and Washington, D.C., including: Yahoo! News: a Chief Editor to drive a new analysis/politics section, a Managing Editor for multimedia and a Social Media Editor to track trends in Twitter and Facebook. Yahoo!: Senior Programmers, generalists as well as people with Personal Finance, Tech and Entertainment expertise, a Senior Producer for partner portals, and Search Trend editors to surface p... (more)

Gartner Predicts 2009: The Evolving Open Source Software Model

The influence of open source continues to expand across software markets. As open source becomes increasing ubiquitous, new patterns are emerging that will have a profound effect on adopter IT strategies and on the model itself. This white paper from Actuate will look at how open source is evolving the software industry in numerous ways. Click Here to Download This White Paper Now! ... (more)

Sun Releases GlassFish Enhancements

Sun Microsystems has announced several technology updates to the Sun GlassFish Portfolio, the most complete, open source, high-performance Web application platform. The GlassFish Portfolio is comprised of leading open source technologies, including OpenESB, OpenMQ, Liferay Portal, Sun GlassFish Web Stack and GlassFish(TM) – the industry's most downloaded application server. Additionally,... (more)

Oracle-Sun: Oracle Issues Statement

Oracle yesterday evening issued the following statement, attributable to Dan Wall, Latham & Watkins counsel to Oracle: "We've had a very good dialogue with the Department of Justice and we were almost able to resolve everything before the Second Request deadline. All that's left is one narrow issue about the way rights to Java are licensed that is never going to get in the way of the deal... (more)

Veryant Helps Businesses Bridge the COBOL to Java Divide

Veryant has announced a new software release to help organizations lower operational costs by modernizing COBOL assets. This latest version of Veryant’s isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (APS) simplifies COBOL and Java integration, enhances the Eclipse-based development environment, and includes several improvements to make moving to isCOBOL from alternative platforms even easier. “Man... (more)