On my flight back from Oracle OpenWorld, I’m left with several conflicting impressions of what I heard during Thomas Kurian’s keynote and throughout JavaOne. What’s unsettling about it is that I’m both excited and worried about the future of Java. Let’s start with the positive.
The investment in...
Like a lot of companies, Progress DataDirect will have a booth (we're in booth #3519 at Moscone West) at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld / JavaOne trade show. Unlike other companies, however, we're the only ones making a trio of data access experts -...
Everyone, myself included, likes to have an idea of what's coming in order to plan ahead more effectively. For example, if you knew that Apple was about to release a redesign to the iPhone in the next month, you might hold off on buying one until it's been released. Software professionals are no...
Microsoft’s recently released Entity Framework 4 (EF4) is generating deserved buzz among the .NET community. It seems that people can’t wait to make the jump directly to EF4, even if they haven’t even touched EF1. The perception is that EF1 was not up to snuff when it came to important...