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Archive for February, 2006

Oracle buys Sleepycat

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

After Innobase, Oracle has bought Sleepycat, the maker of the great database engine BerkeleyDB. Congratulations to the Sleepycat team!

As an aside, Oracle now owns the developers of InnoDB and BDB, two of the most popular transactional table formats used by MySQL database. Shouldn’t MySQL AB start to worry about that?

MXBean support in Java SE 6

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Eamonn McManus’s Blog: What is an MXBean?

One of the important new features of the JMX API in Mustang (Java SE 6) is the ability to create MXBeans. MXBeans provide a convenient way to bundle related values together without requiring clients to be specially configured to handle the bundles. Here’s the […]

Developer talk at EclipseCon’06

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

My talk about Integrating TPTP in a RCP Management/Monitoring Console has been accepted for EclipseCon’06.

See you there!