Open Container Initiative Moving Fast

It's been almost exactly a month since a coalition of industry leaders and users joined forces to create the Open Container Project to establish common standards for software containers. Now known as the Open Container Initiative (OCI) (renamed to avoid confusion with another Linux Foundation project), the group has announced the availability for public scrutiny of a draft charter for the nascent organization and the addition of 14 new members.

Posted by John K. Waters on July 24, 20150 comments

Pivotal and Cloud Native Java

O'Reilly's annual Open Source Convention, better known as OSCON, is in full swing this week in Portland. Among the more joyful attendees at this year's event is James Watters, vice president of Product, Marketing and Ecosystem for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal. How do I know Watters is a happy camper? His latest blog post, in which, among other things, he enthuses about the dramatic uptick in conference sessions on microservices -- 30 this year, up from only one last year, which Pivotal presented.

Posted by John K. Waters on July 22, 20150 comments

Oracle v. Google: Now the Fair Use Argument for Java APIs

Now that the Supreme Court has decided not to review Oracle America Inc. v. Google Inc., the long-running lawsuit returns to the Federal Circuit Court in San Francisco, where Google will have a chance to argue that its use of 37 Java APIs -- now considered copyrightable becuase of the Supreme Court's pass -- in its Android operating system falls under the doctrine of fair use.

Posted by John K. Waters on July 8, 20150 comments

VMware: Making the Developer a First-Class Datacenter User

Among the more interesting vendor announcements at last week's DockerCon was VMware's preview of two new products: AppCatalyst and Project Bonneville. Both are emblematic of VMware's relatively newly amped up effort to, as Kit Colbert, vice president and CTO of VMware's Cloud-Native Applications group, put it, "make the developer a first-class user of the datacenter through our cloud-native applications."

Posted by John K. Waters on July 6, 20150 comments

GitHub Announces Atom 1.0

It took 18 months, 155 releases, and the efforts of hundreds of contributors to get here, but version 1.0 of GitHub's Atom text editor is now available. First released to open source in May 2014, Atom is a customizable, cross-platform text editor built with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Node.js integration. It runs on the Electron framework, and it works on OS X, Windows or Linux.

Posted by John K. Waters on June 26, 20150 comments

Onno Kluyt on Java at 20

I knocked on quite a few doors last month, looking for Java mavens to talk with about the language on its 20th birthday. Lots of people got back to me (I think they got tired of the banging), and I heard some great stories. But I was surprised that, to my first question -- "What has been the most significant change in the Java language and/or platform in the past 20 years?" -- no one answered, "Open sourcing Java." It's probably the way I phrased the question, but I remember Java jocks clamoring back in the day for Sun to release their beloved language under an open source license.

Posted by John K. Waters on June 9, 20150 comments

Java at 20, Part 3: Q&A with JCP's Patrick Curran

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Posted by John K. Waters on May 29, 20150 comments

Java at 20 Years, Part 2: Still Top Dog After all these Years

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• Java at 20 Years, Part 1: What's In a Name?
• Java at 20, Part 3: Q&A with JCP's Patrick Curran

Posted by John K. Waters on May 26, 20150 comments

Java at 20 Years, Part 1: What’s In a Name?

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• Java at 20 Years, Part 2: Still Top Dog After all these Years
• Java at 20, Part 3: Q&A with JCP's Patrick Curran

Posted by John K. Waters on May 22, 20150 comments