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Java core has stagnated, Java EE is dead, and Spring is over, but the JVM marches on. C'mon Oracle, where are the big ideas? Try a little harder
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They were busy with the corpse of MySQL?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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That may have slowed them down: perhaps they can only kill one product at a time?
TTFN - Kent
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Is MySQL actually dieing? I wasn't able to find anything showing DB marketshare trends. I know a lot of people, myself included, expected Oracle to run it into the ground when the acquisition was announced. But other than a number of DB agnostic FOSS projects changing their default suggestion to Postgresql I haven't seen any indications of it slumping. From the other side, I know someone who is a MySQL DBA for a managed hosting company; he's told me that since the take over, Oracle's applied it's internal expertise to make MySQL much better at scaling across multiple cores. As of when we talked about it (2?? years ago), it would still eventually hit a scaling wall where more cores didn't help, but that limit was several times higher than before.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Not exactly dying, but do not get the resources it need to develop new features (we have to admit that a pure volunteers based development can't hold up with a project that large)...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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The guy in the article says Windows is a 'dead man walking'...Microsoft Windows, Zombie Edition will probably be my desktop 20 years from now...
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Programmers can spend a lot of time worrying about, thinking about, and optimizing the way that the code they’re writing looks. Whether it’s language designers obsessing about the way that you’ll find the length of string or language-users sweating about whether the function should be called findClassById() or get_class(), all thinking about naming is arguably a colossal waste of time. And the other guy always uses the wrong naming conventions
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I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm gonna call you SPEAK! Because that's what you do!
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Today's children are one step away from assuming that technology is a natural, spontaneous part of the material world. They’ll grow up thinking about the internet with the same nonchalance that I hold toward my toaster and teakettle. I can resist all I like, but for the next generation resistance is moot. The revolution is already complete. I'd have to have an internal brain before I worry
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Kent Sharkey wrote: for the next generation resistance is moot
And what of it? I expect light to come out of the bulb when I flick the switch without having the faintest knowledge about electrons in motion. I probably learnt more words via television than my grandparents actually knew. The internet is just a step on the technology continuum - it isn't something special and unique.
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I agree. And besides, when it all breaks, it will be spectacular.
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News broke today that Microsoft is offering employees in China a Lumia 630 device to leave the company voluntarily. What's the punishment if they stay?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What's the punishment if they stay?
They get an iPhone?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What's the punishment if they stay?
They get a Surface.
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I think what surprises me about this offer is the utter cluelessness of the people who made the offer. Didn't they see that such an offer would be the object of wide spread mockery on the internet? The whole thing is a beautiful premise that begs for any number of glorious punch lines.
Seriously, how detached from the public do you have to be in order to think this offer was a win?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What's the punishment if they stay?
2 Lumias...
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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With close to $2 billion down the tubes and a new CEO more interested in operating systems than devices, the days of the Microsoft Surface tablet could be numbered. "'Tis but a scratch"
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But the latest Surface tablet is getting nice reviews.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Wasn't there similar gloom and doom over the X-Box?
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Yeah, I seem to recall reading billion dollar loss headlines about it as well. And still. I don't think that division has ever made money.
TTFN - Kent
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By itself, the division may not rake in the money, but with the license fees for game developers to get SDKs, devkits, etc, along with first-party games like Halo, they don't really need to worry too much about it.
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True, and they (XBox) have been doing better lately. I think that you've hit on a big difference between XBox and Surface though: there seems little way that the Surface can create such an ecosystem. The XBox devices themselves can do poorly, but the ecosystem as a whole does well.
Quote: The company took in $19.9 billion in revenue this quarter – up 10 percent compared to last year's earnings – with $4.97 billion in net income. Revenue for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, which includes Xbox 360 hardware and software sales, grew by 8 percent ($134 million) this quarter, and 6 percent ($566 million) year-on-year.
Microsoft additionally reports that Xbox Live transactional revenue grew by nearly 20 percent during the last quarter year.
TTFN - Kent
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