Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The development community has been demanding it for years Sun has finally let down the barriers to one of the most ubiquitous development platforms in the world. Java is to become open sourced under the GNU GPLv2 license, the license favored by the Linux community.
The open sourcing has already begun with the
release of the JSE (Java Standard Edition) and JME (Java Micro
Edition). This will be followed by releasing the increasingly popular
JEE (Java Enterprise Edition) source.
With Java now released under GPLv2, the open source license favoured by
Linus Torvalds and the Linux community, Java is expected to soon be
freely available with most popular Linux distributions.
Sun, primarily a hardware manufacturer, which made a relatively small
proportion of its revenue by selling Java licenses, believes that
opening up the source code of the widely used language it developed
more than 10 years ago, will encourage increased development of Java
applications optimised to run on Sun servers.
As the original developer of Java, Sun has extensive expertise,
enabling the company to make money on offering support services and
middleware to support Java applications.
A company that has largely been in decline for the past five years,
Sun, which still make the lion's share of its revenue from high-end
servers running its Solaris flavor of the Unix operating system has
moved to revive its fortunes by hitching on to the coat tails of the
trend toward open source software and commoditization of hardware.
In addition to releasing a range of low-end x86 servers, Sun open
sourced the Solaris operating system Common Development and
Distribution License (CDDL) in 2005 and opened its high-end Sparc
platform to run Ubuntu Linux in recent months.
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