Its a two horse race, wake up and smell the turf

Shelton says “At this stage of the game, it’s easy to see how [Symbian] will be the biggest community around an open operating system.” Oh dear. Someone is living in cloud cuckoo land. This is so a two horse race, its iPhone and Android. The openness, or lack thereof, is largely irrelevant.

So many iPhones

On the back of Apple’s best quarter ever, with sales of 7.4 million iPhone units, comes the not surprising news that the iPhone enjoys 30% of (some) market share in the US. Yes, I know, lies, damned lies and … but anyway, I was at a kind of Workday techie conference recently, at which there were some 24 techies. I reckon about 18 had iPhones. A much higher percentage amongst geeks then. And my better half wants one, it took her about a month of my “there’s an app for that”.

Cloud computing / SaaS shift

Good summary of the state, opportunities and threats of the cloud computing / SaaS shift.

A job in space and developing for Eclipse too

It doesn’t get much better than this!

The deal that never made sense now officially doesn’t make sense

eBay and Skype: bring on Wall St. to sort it out though.

GMF goes on a diet for Galileo

GMF has slimmed down for Galileo, this is good news. One of our key editors in Workday Integration Studio, our Assembly editor, is GMF based, and it is a bit of hog. It’ll be interesting to see what its like running under the slimmed down runtime.

To jar or not to jar (your Eclipse plugin / OSGi bundle)

That is the question, and it has been answered in Eclipse 3.5

Keep it close

Amazon seeing that people do care about where their stuff is hosted. I read technical and non-technical reasons for this.

JSR-277 is dead, but will it be a case of frying-pan to fire?

As widely reported, JSR-277 is pretty much dead, but as Neil Bartlett points out, will it be a case of from the frying-pan to the fire? I hope not, OSGi is the present and future of Java modularity. Lets all agree that now, and stick with it, and start reaping the benefits.

“If you make a product enough times, consumers will learn to want it.”

I love this quote: “If you make a product enough times, consumers will learn to want it.“  Having the dubious honour of being part of one generation of this net/tv/book/phone/smart/small/web/thin/computer re-invention madness a few years back, I find this quite funny. Read The Register article here.