Java- How did the name come??

I have been studying Java for quite some time now. Once lost in oblivion while studying java, a question popped up in my mind. Why did the creator of java--James Gosling--named it java. My goofy mind gave several possible explanatios- he might be a native of Java islands, or he might have thought of some concept of the language while he was holidaying on java islanda....

I finally referred wikipedia to find out. Here is what it says-"The language was initially called Oak, after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling's office - and also went by the name Green - and ended up later being renamed to Java, from a list of random words."

So, java was nomenclatured randomly..?? I cant buy this proposition. It is still an enigma for me that why only "Java"??

Jaaaaavvvaaa!!

The more i explore Java applications, the more i realize taht everything said about java is understated. Java supports so so many devices and services...jesus!! It seems a lifetime is not enough to fathom the ocean of java.

Sun Rising In The East!!

The government of Japan has chosen SUN to deliver better govt. services to citizens under its "New IT Reform strategy". This strategy has a goal of making 50 percent of all applications and filings for government agencies to be submitted online by 2010. Sun has been chosen to create an integrated and inherently secure network, called Trusted Network, using OpenSolaris OS, Sun Java System Identity Manager software, Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite and Sun Ray thin clients.

Not only this, SUN has bagged the contract to develop NEW SINGAPORE SHARES web site..

You can find more here:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-12/sunflash.20071212.2.xml

Sunny Affairs

I have finally created my blog at blogs.sun.com so from now on most of my posts will feature in this new blog.

http://blogs.sun.com/souvik

But surely, every now and then I'll continue to show up on this blog.

Solaris or Linux??

After interacting with some of my fellow students at college, I realize that Solaris vs Linux is one of the hot topics. People who want to try out other operating systems and some of them who want to work on UNIX end up picking up one of the linux distros esp Fedora or Ubuntu. And unfortunately every new batch of students just stick on to this choice without much consideration, mostly because they are unaware of the other OS options and also because their peers/seniors have a copy of these linux distros. In this post I am not asking them to undo their decision but instead just refering to a healthy (factual) comparison between Solaris and RedHat.

Have a look at this blog entry by Bill Vass.

Also here is a comparison chart that you should have a look at. Feel free to comment on his blog/maybe mine too if you find any correction.

Everything FOSS.IN

Stay up to date with whats going around in FOSS.IN

FOSS.IN Website

And haan dont miss the Sun's Official FOSS.IN Blog

Netbeans 6.0

Hey Netbeans 6.0 is all ready for download.

I dont know about the other platforms, but the Mac OS X version seems to be more "responsive" than the beta 2 which is a good thing. The launch time is also a bit less.. about 11.48 secs!! Go get a copy.

Download it here

Firefox 2.0.0.11

Mozilla two updates in a very short interval of time.

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.11/contrib/