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JAVA Ticker Not Going Down Well

You should read the comments on Jonathan Schwartz's blog about Sun's decision to change the stocker ticker from SUNW to JAVA. It's just pure pointless, and often thoughtless, hostilities. I think there are about 10 favorable comments in all, out of the 335 (and counting) comments so far.For some reason, people seem to think Sun is making a strategic directional change, or putting all it's efforts behind Java. It's not. I view this as a relatively cheap way to get Sun Microsystems known by the average Joe Schmoe. Techies know about Sun. The average Man on the street doesn't.  Continue reading ►

Bye SUNW, Hello JAVA

As of next week, one of the most actively traded shares on the Nasdaq, will have a new ticker symbol. Sun Microsystems will change it's ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA.  Continue reading ►

Sun Device Detection Tool 1.1

I'd not heard about the Sun Device Detection Tool until I saw this post on Dennis Clarke's (of Blastwave fame) blog.Now this is just what Solaris needs in order to help drive adoption. A tool that will analyse your system and tell you if Solaris has device drivers for all the components it's found. Brilliant!!! I've not heard of a similar tool for Linux distros.  Continue reading ►

The Latest Java Flaw

ZDNET and CNET (Just paraphrasing the ZDNET article) are both reporting that apparently Google's security team have discovered some very critical flaws in the Java Run Time Environment (JRE) that threatens security on pretty much anything that runs Java.  Continue reading ►
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