java developers in comment and analysis
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment This was bad for business and to address it malware developers dropped the self-replicating part of the Trojans, which were now spammed out in controllable chunks. Most people are familiar with the dangers they pose, yet... [19 Nov 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The politics of enterprise applications
Comment The main alternative to J2EE for application developers is Microsoft's .NET. IBM's WebSphere is the leading Java-based application server written to support a standard called J2EE. The ongoing battle for... [01 Oct 2004]
3GSM Diary: Silly new ideas, BREWing Java, and Woosh - Kiwis connect
Comment A few developers in the early days used to joke about its beer connotations (beer in the US, would have been tea in the UK I'm guessing) but Jacob said the company "almost didn't do it", for fear of confusion. [26 Feb 2004]
The Ovum View: Sun's accidental asset - Java, the consumer brand
Comment It charges licence fees from phone vendors like Motorola and Nokia but it doesn't charge developers anything to write applications for J2ME. That's why there are hundreds of thousands of developers doing... [18 Mar 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft's 3G plans, IBM's web services plans, and Napster's survival plans
Comment A Tivoli plug-in allows developers to monitor applications, a Domino plug-in enables developers to create integrated WebSphere and Domino applications and the DB2 plug-in will give... [17 Jun 2002]
Web services: Glossary
Comment Arousing a great deal of interest from developers, it purportedly has the ability to make applications written in any language .Net compatible, leading to comparisons with Java. However, unlike Sun's... [04 May 2002]
Microsoft's must-win grasp for developer hearts and minds
Comment Microsoft claims it has 2.5 million more developers than Sun has with Java. For one thing, some 3.5 million copies of Visual Studio .Net and the .Net Framework have been distributed to... [13 Feb 2002]
The Ovum View: The reality of end-user IT circa 2002 - PART TWO
Comment Faced with the array of 'great ideas' that make up the tangled mess that many IT departments have to live with, there is now more focus in Europe on reducing the complexity that developers, administrators and, all too... [20 Jan 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Paying for web content, skills and future '192' services
Comment One solutions vendor we spoke to in the last few weeks stated there has never been a better time to go out and look for Java developers. Private software developers will, no doubt, come... [19 Oct 2001]
Developer portals: Life just got a little easier
Comment It offers over 6,500 modules from several hundred developers, who program in Java as well as Microsoft languages. Developers can chat on the bulletin boards and customers can use them as... [24 Jul 2001]
Larry, Bill and Scott too...
Comment Development environments are complex beasts and developers will need to be presented a very compelling argument to make a permanent switch. So after breakfast, Larry and Scott joined forces to announce details of a... [19 Jun 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Banking on CRM to ditch those lemons
Comment On Tuesday they will be honouring DIY software developers from 27 forces who will be demonstrating software systems they have written in their spare time to tackle policing problems. Polese, who worked on the original... [06 Apr 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Mac OS X, virtual justice and MS C# versus Java
Comment How long before Visual Studio developers get fed up with using out-of-date products? Sun has protected itself for a short period by allowing the old Java version to continue but one cannot help feeling... [29 Jan 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Java's big hope and Microsoft's major headache
Comment Engineers and developers were free to press on in their labs without being distracted by commitments to the publicity machine. However, in September, the J2ME Mobile Information Device profile was released for... [19 Dec 2000]
'Java not an ugly duckling,' claims Gosling
Comment Gosling told silicon.com that his team of developers at Sun are now looking at exploiting its potential beyond the desktop, in phones for example, and before long, in such devices as fridges (see today's Agenda Setters... [07 Dec 2000]
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