Oracle announced today of acquiring Sun Microsystems for a total price of $7.4 billion. This transaction has long lasting and possibly game changing impact on several market segments in the IT industry. My analysis per market segment is listed below.
Open Source segment focusing on Java and MySql Database
By acquiring Sun, Oracle is probably the largest [...]
The respondents to Computerworld’s annual forecast survey voted .Net as a hot programming skill for ‘09. It is surprising there is no mention of Java/JEE in the top nine list of hot skills. Per the survey, the top skills for ’09 are:
1. SAP, .Net in application development category
2. Help desk/technical support
3. Project management
4. Networking
5. Business [...]
IDC recently published the findings from a survey on IT cloud services (cloud computing). The survey was conducted on 244 IT executives/CIOs and their colleagues about their companies’ use of, and views about, IT Cloud Services. Summary of top three findings from this survey is mentioned below in two categories:
Benefits:
1) 63.9% find the number one [...]
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a provider’s network of servers situated around the globe to effectively deliver web content to the end users. A CDN is the best solution in addressing inherent performance and scalability problems associated with delivering of web content on a global scale. While a CDN is an appropriate solution to [...]
Devuntiy, Amy Editor and SubEthaEdit have one thing in common; they all enable your code to be shared with other developers online. Devunity is operating in stealth mode and is not available for a test drive. However one of the interesting and unique features of Devunity is it allows a developer to write code online [...]
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a hosted application stack that can be used to build and deploy a web application with no servers to configure or administer.
PaaS changes the economics of application development and delivery by drastically reducing the development costs while simultaneously providing scalability, high availability and reduced maintenance. Some examples of PaaS [...]