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Java vs. Mono

SD Times' David Worthington this week published an excellent article contending that Microsoft's Mono framework has become more popular for Linux desktop applications than Java . "'We have seen a real spike in Mono [application] development for the Linux desktop over th...

AMR: Oracle/Sun to 'Wreak Havoc' on Enterprise Software Market

...nt Dennis Gaughan," Gage writes. "If Dennis is right, and he has a good track record of being right, Oracle lawyers are already getting ready to go to the mattresses. This battle will make...

Download Java, Get a Free Month of Online Backup

Sun Microsystems and Carbonite have announced a partnership under which users who download the newest version of Java will receive a free 30-day trial of Carbonite Online Backup . "Carbonite Online Backup installs in a few clicks and runs automatically in the background, continuall...

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Get a Handle on Expenses

Karin Price Mueller had a piece not long ago on how to get a handle on your expenses that should be required reading if you manage a business. This is not the kind of economy in which you should be spending unnecessarily. Some expenses are obvious areas to pare back, but others-those vampire expen...

Can You Get Money from the Government? Maybe...

Michael Sanibel had a helpful blog post recently on government grants. He looks at all the basics: What is a grant? Who can qualify? How do you apply? What types of grants are available? What are the advantages and disadvantages of getting a grant? Why would a grant application not b...

Can Wind Power Make a Profit?

...looks at one specific example... A windmill doesn't make economic sense, even though this poor entrepreneur is gouged 19 cents per kilowatt-hour from his utility. A 121-foot, 100-kilowatt turbine ...

Social Entrepreneurship using Facebook

... a website for sharing photos and contact info. with friends but also a good way of starting social entrepreneurship initiatives. The video below illustrates this in a very easy way: Find more...

Apple Finally Patches Java Vulnerability

© arquera Apple this week finally released a patch for a serious Java security flaw that's been around since December of last year. "The flaw is fixed in Mac OS X 10.5.7 and Mac OS X 10.4.11, available from Apple's website or via OS X's built-in software update mechanism...

Genuitec Intros MyEclipse 7.5

Genuitec this week released version 7.5 of both MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench and MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench Blue Edition . "For our Blue Edition customers we're proud to share new design and advanced layouts that IBM shops will feel comfortable adopting," says Genuit...

How to Create an Action Plans

... do something . But deciding to do something is different than deciding how to do something... Entrepreneur.com had a good piece recently on creating an action plan. This is the number one secre...

Problem Solving is Key

Success in starting a business is mostly about figuring out what to do when challenges arise. So I couldn't help but get a little excited when I say this point on problem solving . In the piece Sid Kemp looks a six basic steps to assessing and solving problems. And in his view, most of it is c...

Microsoft Hearts Java

© A Y U M i (LoveLiveLaugh) At last week's JavaOne conference, Microsoft execs did their best to woo the Java developers in attendance. "'I want to say, absolutely, we come in peace,' pledged Steven Martin, one of a pair of Microsoft executives to address the crowd at ...

Entrepreneurial Life

...ue their personal freedom more than the average Joe. There were other observations - things like being bold enough to thrive in a recession, or having a particular approach to efficiency that leads ... ... © tedmurphy I came across a interesting piece last week from Small Business Trends : Entrepreneurial Lessons From The Experts. It was a list of simple observations about the life of entrepreneu...

Social Networking With Purpose

... Entrepreneur.Com had a piece recently that made a simple point: You should be selective with your social networks. The simple truth is that social networking can be a time consuming endeavor. It&#...

Coming Soon: Java-Based Netbooks?

© nDevilTV At this week's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison raised the idea of creating Java-based netbooks. "The expansion into computers is considered a logical offshoot by Ellison given Sun's experience in hardware and other fields outside of ...

Time to Start Your Business? Maybe...

... on the wings of today's economy. It charts its own course... I saw a piece recently at YoungEntrepreneur that reflected on a short list of companies that were started during a recession. Why w...

Social entrepreneurship: A three decade history

...Skoll Foundation has created a n excellent video giving an overview of social entrepreneurship initiatives done in the last 30 years. Leaders from Acumen Funds, Skoll Foundations and some entrepreneur...

Beer company to contribute to social entrepreneurship movement

...ess has pledged to raise €2.5 million in start up capital for its Arthur Guinness Fund for Social Entrepreneurs. The money is aimed to support approximately twenty-five social entrepreneurship initiat...

Viral Marketing Chocolate Grasshoppers

...eting gurus with a simple message: if you can eat one of these, you probably have the guts to be an entrepreneur, too. From Rob May, founder of Lifestream Backup articulated the idea: “My theory is t...

ROI Measurement and Misunderstanding

...e the IT department, anymore than IPX/SPX or TCP/IP do. My feeling is that IT departments which are being controlled at such a level that they are being precluded from making their own decisions as to...

Wine Time: the Bunnel Family Cellar in Washington State

... Entrepreneur.com had an interesting piece this month on a family winery and wine bar in Prosser, Washington. The Bunnel Family Cellar was recently opened on the Yakima River. The 3,700-square-foot...

Using Video to Boost Your Profile

... © renaissancechambara Entrepreneur.com pointed out recently how easy it is to create and host online a video about your business. It's a powerful marketing tool that can give your business...

Entering an Era of Virtual Currencies?

...o watch over the next few years. And it has real world business implications. A few link... Teen entrepreneur Catherine Cook says myYearbook's Lunch Money adds up - VentureBeat Hi5 begins g...

Sun CEO Announces Plans for Java App Store

Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz this week announced plans to launch an app store (currently called Project Vector) for Java software. "It will be modeled after Apple's iPhone App Store and will allow users to download and install new software over the Internet," wr...

Apple Fails to Patch Key Java Vulnerability

© bfick Apple has been slow to fix a key Java vulnerability which has remained unpatched for months, according to a security memo released this week by Intego . "While Apple's safety record is pretty good — that is to say the actual number of security breaches on the platfo...

Franchises: WYNTK

We talked recently about how well franchises do during a recession. To balance that I thought I'd point out this piece by Jeff Elgin on buying a franchise. Elgin looks at some things you should know about a franchise contract. One of the things he points out is that strong franchises usual...

Working with a Web Designer

... have the in-house talent necessary to create a site on their own. So they find a web designer... Entrepreneur.com had some good tips recently for working with a web designer. They say that it is p...

Cashing in on the disgust with banks

...of them will be cashing in on the public disgust with banks. One of the first out of the blocks is entrepreneur Richard Branson. The Guardian reports that Branson plans to launch an Internet bank t...

Hope Cleaning Services creates sustainable jobs in San Antonio

...Social Entrepreneur is an individual who identifies an environmental or social problem in society and creates a venture that will direct its goals to improve society and the environment. A business en...

Dayton RFID Convergence Center: World’s First Business Incubator for Start Ups

... It is being dubbed as world's first business incubator for start ups pertaining to the field of RFID. The Dayton RFID Convergence Center is located at the thirty acre Tech Town Business P... ...and assistance with financing. The RFID Business incubator will be nurturing around 150 entrepreneurs every year who in turn will be supporting over a thousand vendors, suppliers and workers and a...

SpringSource Buys Hyperic

Enterprise Java vendor SpringSource has purchased Hyperic . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. "The move will expand SpringSource's Java offerings and allow the company to provide a more comprehensive open source stack," writes Ars Technica's Ryan Paul . "Spring...

The Balance of Life

...t answers or prefabricated solutions are available. The problem: maintaining a balance between your entrepreneurial endevears and the rest of life. You do have a life , don't you? You should. ...

Failure Whets the Appetite for Success

...t everybody's favorite topic: failure. More specifically, he looked at how failure impacted the entrepreneurial spirit. Give me the experienced entrepreneur whose last company was a failure 100% o...

JCP Announces 2009 Star Spec Leads

The Java Community Process (JCP) Program Management Office (PMO) today announced the 2009 Star Spec Leads , recognizing JCP Spec Leads who maintain high quality along with exceptional service to the community. The awards are based on feedback from fellow Spec Leads , Expert Group members...

How Sound is Your Business Plan?

...rocess, as it may be useful for organizing thoughts and details of a venture." Tim Berry at Entrepreneur.com thinks that an economic downturn is a good time to revisit your business plan and m...

From Ideas to Reality

... to presenters at a two-day conference - the 99% Conference . If you're interested enough in entrepreneurial issues to be reading this blog to start with, you probably already knew rule number o...

Oracle and Sun: What's Next?

© storem Following Oracle's $7.4 billion purchase this week of Sun Microsystems , what does the future look like for both companies? "Sun made its name as a supplier of server hardware during the dot-com heyday, but its best-known technology is software: the Java programming langu...

Clothing Optional in Bavaria

...g solely to those willing to shed clothing for the duration of their stay..." The project from entrepreneur Frider Haferkorn is designed to attract the growing European population of naturists, t...

PreEmptive Releases DashO 5

PreEmptive Solutions today announced the release of DashO Version 5 . "DashO 5 offers the same runtime session and feature monitoring that PreEmptive's Dotfuscator does for .NET developers," writes SD Times' David Worthington . "That includes instrumenting Java appl...

Renegotiating in Down Times

Robert Jones made the point recently that in an economy where businesses are failing and everyone's concerned with cutting costs, renegotiating your costs is a meaningful strategy. Everything can be renegotiated. Everything . If it was negotiated to start with in some way, it can definitely...

What's Next For Sun?

© tehduh The talks between IBM and Sun Microsystems have broken down, and it's unclear what will come next for Sun. "Sun and IBM failed to agree on terms and a price, which IBM reportedly had dropped from $10 to $11 per share three weeks ago to as little as $9.40 in the past few...

Hard Questions for a Business Leader

Entrepreneur's David Javitch had a blog post a couple of weeks ago now that's stuck with me. He looks at five questions any business owner/manager needs to consider in the current economic climate. and they all have to do with employee relations. Your employees need you most when times are...

Entrepreneur 2.0

... 名称： Entrepreneur 2.0 简介：面向企业家的社会化网络...

Google to Invest in Biotechnology

...rsonal genomics . Its target is to invest $100 million in the coming year, with the boston area being one of its geographic areas of interest. Miner, a Boston-area serial entrepreneur who played ... ...bio-tech and health care. According to the Boston Globe report : Google Ventures will scout for entrepreneurial opportunities in a broad range of fields, from search and advertising to mobile comp...

Introducing MindTouch 2009

MindTouch today announced the release of MindTouch 2009, "extending the development platform's collaboration capabilities through a bidirectional message bus," according to InfoWorld's Paul Krill . "With the bus, push-based e-mail notifications can be sent. MindTouch ...

Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur

... Entrepreneur took a look a couple of weeks ago at what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur and the piece has floated around in my mind for a time now. Author James Stephenson lists 25 common c...

The Value-Price Relationship

... Entrepreneur had a good piece by Barry Farber earlier this month on how the relationship between value and price can make or break your business. I remember seeing this statement above a local print...

GAE Gets Java

The Google App Engine (GAE) is expected to soon get full support for Java. "Java is definitely important to Google, and the company has a seat on the JCP , which makes it kind of strange that Java hasn't been part of Google's cloud offering," notes JavaWorld's Josh ...

The Personality of an Entrepreneur

... Young Entrepreneur had a piece recently on entrepreneurial personality. It was an interesting look at the importance of matching personality to your job function. The article interviews consultant ...

The story of the Kiva from its founder

...p. 2008, but interesting...the link is here ). She got obsessed by the idea of becoming a social entrepreneur after hearing a speech by Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Hearing his story changed here life. Some...

IBM Buying Sun?

© lumaxart The Wall Street Journal this week broke the news that IBM is considering purchasing Sun Microsystems . "Teams of International Business Machines Corp. lawyers are examining Sun Microsystems Inc.'s contracts and documents in a due-diligence process that could take a...

Staying Motivated

... Young Entrepreneur hand some sound tips on Things to avoid if you want to stay motivate in your business venture. Top of the list: Avoid getting a knock back. You know what that means: Perhaps...

Tax Extension: E-File Business and Personal Extensions at FileLater

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Sun's Ian Murdock Joins the Great OS Debate

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 1624654 At next month's Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit , representatives of Sun Microsystems , Microsoft and the Linux Foundation will debate the future of their respective operating systems. Expect bloodshed. "Linux Foundation Ex...

Confessions of a Startup Addict

...f you share his problem). Then he looks at himself as a case study. I started dozens of businesses, being successful in some, and failing in some others. Like many personal development gurus said, you... ...ake full advantage of this disorder (if you have it). It's a tongue-in-cheek look at life as an entrepreneur. I enjoyed it. Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 4915287 ...

OSBF Creates Bridge Between Java and .NET

The European Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF) this week introduced the Internet Service Bus (ISB), a platform that leverages service-oriented architecture (SOA) for cloud computing and creates a bridge between the Java and .NET worlds. "The secret sauce that blends the Java and ...

Gregg Ruth Jewelry

...llections that reinterpret timeless, classic designs and give them a stunning new spin. But to this entrepreneur and CEO, it is a natural enthusiasm and relentless passion for his work and his team ...

Sun Intros GlassFish Portfolio

Sun Microsystems this month released the Sun GlassFish Porfolio , a complete Web application platform based on GlassFish . "With an integrated AMP stack that works alongside Java, Sun's new GlassFish Portfolio aims to help the company extend beyond its core Java application serv...

WagerLog: Track Your Gambling Stats

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Introducing AribaWeb

Ariba, Inc. this week released its AribaWeb application development framework. "AribaWeb features AutoAJAX, which produces interfaces automatically, InstantApp technology so users don't have to maintain their own interface code, Live Edit & X-Ray so developers can see how code...

New book: The power of unreasonable people...

...le man". This is the main theme of the book "The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World" by John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan and ...

Mark Cuban's Open Source Funding: Can Your Business Plan Break Even in 60 Days?

Entrepreneur Mark Cuban wants to fund your business plan. IN the words of Seth Godin , he's calling your bluff: Post a business plan that meets certain criteria and he'll consider funding it, right here, right now. There's a short list of 13 requirements. You can find those at Blog M...

Sun Launches JavaFX Mobile

Sun Microsystems this week introduced its new JavaFX Mobile platform. "JavaFX Mobile, which makes its formal debut next week during GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, won't replace Java ME , the Micro Edition for smartphones, mobile phones and other handheld devices,&qu...

Google Experimenting with AJAX Search Results

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 863840 SEO Smackdown's Michael VanDeMar broke the news that Google now appears to be delivering AJAX-based search results. "AJAX can use more memory than pages generated by flat HTML, especially in Internet Explorer, so some older machines w...

The Guts To Be An Entrepreneur... (Do You Have What It Takes?)

... Young Entrepreneur published a post late last month. Call it inspiration if it motivates you, or scare tactics if you think about the hardships it mentions and you decide that maybe the life of an e...

Java EE 6 Platform Draft Published

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 2267590 As InfoQ's Dionysios G. Synodinos reports, "The public draft of the Java EE 6 Platform specification has been published and will remain open for public review and feedback until the 23rd of Feb, 2009. Maybe the most notable part of t...

Tough Times for Java Coders

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 7922307 Sun Microsystems announced 1,300 job cuts this week, hitting the Java community hard. "Sun's decision to dump 1,300 people was expected," notes ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn . "Less expected was where they came from: open s...

Building a Start Up from Scratch

... Evan Carmichael over at the Young Entrepreneur blog has a nice basic step-by-step on how to start out with nothing and build yourself a start up business. Here are the steps that I took. This proc...