Newscast for May 1st
2006
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Main News Items
- Scott McNeally steps down as CEO of Sun Microsystems to
become Chairman, and Jonathan Schwartz takes on the role of CEO
- Looking ahead to Java One
- Top coder open
- Thinkfree office gets big and friendly
- Easy Eclipse 1.0 Beta available
- More from the Rumor Mill, Oracle to buy Red Hat, IBM to
buy SAP
- Applet of the week - VRML viewer in a pure java applet
In Short News Items
- Matisse for My Eclipse has now had it's first milestone
release
- Eclipse 3.2 RC2 is now out
- IBM has released BPEL repository
- Using the NetBeans rich-client platform
- Blue J 2.1.3 - a new version of the Java IDE for learning
and teaching (and a favorite of the posse), has been released
- Gigaspaces has released Gigaspaces 5.0, a so-called "space
based architecture"
- Java 5 is now default on Mac OS X
- Novell has released version 1.1.5 of mono - an open source
implementation of .NET 1.1
- Atlanta Java Users Group has announced the details for the
Atlanta Java Devcon 2006
- New blueprint ajax components demos
- JBoss world in Las Vegas, dates set for June 12th to 15th
2006
- The Java Posse would like to thank
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of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI
popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce
by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr
- http://www.loosebrucekerr.com
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