Sun adding open source app server to Amazon cloud
April 22, 2009Sun Microsystems will make its open source GlassFish application server available on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform on Wednesday.
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Sun Cloud looks beyond Java
April 21, 2009Sun Microystems, which announced Sun Cloud in March, is taking a different tack than the Java clouds from Google, Aptana, and Stax because it wants to be more than just a Java provider. The new cloud will create new clusters of machines from any disk image, including some of the most popular versions of Linux and Solaris. Java, of course, will be found in most of these images, but you don't need to use it if you want to, say, run some emulated version of Cobol on a version of Puppy Linux. Unless Sun Cloud is interrupted by Oracle's acquisition, it should be available in a few months.
Physicist Stephen Hawking undergoing tests to diagnose trouble
April 21, 2009A University of Cambridge spokesman said that physicist Stephen Hawking is undergoing tests in an effort to diagnose an illness that has forced him to be hospitalized in England.
Is Java as we know it doomed?
April 21, 2009With Oracle set to buy Sun Microsystems, some Java backers are questioning whether the software vendor might try to exert more control over the open-source technology than even Sun has.
Java in the cloud: Google, Aptana, and Stax
April 21, 2009Just as the megastars in Hollywood seem to find each other and fall in love, it was only inevitable that two of the greatest buzzwords ever hatched -- "Java" and "cloud" -- would meet and begin to breed. Now that a number of companies have launched Java clouds, or begun weaving Java into their hosted development platforms, the race is on to remake the Java infrastructure in the cloud image.
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NASA: Mars rover IT problems may be age-related
April 21, 2009NASA engineers are continuing to work to determine what has gone wrong with the Spirit Mars rover so it can continue its mission to explore the surface of the planet.
I Think My Hard Drive is Dying
April 21, 2009Repartitioning software told Bloodboughtme that his hard drive had "bad blocks." He asked the Answer Line forum for advise.
Four-wheeled robot that can hop 25 feet is in the works
April 21, 2009The U.S. government-funded Sandia Labs research facility has hired an MIT spin-off firm to build a robot that can leap 25 feet in the air to avoid obstacles in combat situations.
What to do if your cloud provider disappears
April 21, 2009Software developer Christopher Shockey saw the first signs of trouble in late 2008. A sales rep who had always represented Web application development provider Coghead was now calling on behalf of Coghead's much larger rival Salesforce.com.
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is hospitalized
April 21, 2009World-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has been hospitalized in Cambridge, England, with a chest infection.