Oracle Completes Sun Acquisition

On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced that it was buying Sun Microsystems, in a deal valued at approximately $7.4 billion.

With the completion of this acquisition, Oracle now provides, what is referred to as the complete, integrated stack: "SOFTWARE. HARDWARE. COMPLETE."

With the acquisition completed in January, 2010, Oracle announced a series of Webcast Series and events to clarify the strategy for 'Transforming the IT Industry'.

Check out the following presentation from the series:

1. Charles Phillips: Welcome and Oracle + Sun: Transforming the Industry
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2. Larry Ellison: Oracle + Sun
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3. Thomas Kurian: Software Strategy
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and more.

Apple iPad - Review

After a long wait, Steve Jobs on 27 January, 2010, announced the launch of the Apple iPad - a device that promises to enhance and improve the user's experience in various perspectives: Browsing, Music, Pictures... and of course, eBooks!

With a super sleek size (only 0.5 inch thick) and touch screen enabled, the iPad has many similarities to the revolutionary iPhone.

Check out a quick review of what the iPad is all about:

Under the hood: Google App Engine Architecture

You can find more than a few sources (including our library.cloud.gae) that describe and help to understand various aspects about Google App Engine. Architecture, and more so a Platform-architecture, such as GAE's and design motivations can be quite an interesting topic.

Found an interesting presentation - by Patrick Chanezon, from Google DevFest '09 - which delves into the design and architectural aspects for GAE.

Google Devfest 2009 Argentina - Intro to Appengine

Google App Engine - With Java and Groovy

Google App Engine (GAE) With Java and Groovy

GAE began with supporting Python, but is now able to support applications you write (or deploy) for various languages: Java, Groovy, and others too, that use the JVM-based language architecture (eg. JRuby, Grails). Here's a nice quick peek into some low-level technical aspects and examples of using GAE with Java and Groovy.

Google App Engine With Java And Groovy

Google App Engine Java, Groovy and Gaelyk
Based on the present limitations (or are these by design?), a logical question this would very likely throw up would be what's the motivation behind limiting the support of Java/JEE APIs on GAE?

Understanding Google App Engine (Quickly)

Here's a crisp introduction and overview to Google App Engine: Hosting Data and Apps Using the Google Infrastructure.

Living in the Cloud: Hosting Data & Apps Using the Google Infrastructure