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The long awaited deal is confirmed - ‘Oracle buys Sun Microsystems’. Latest flash news from Sun’s official website: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-04/sunflash.20090420.1.xml Valuing each share at $9.50 (NASDAQ:JAVA), the whole deal is approximated at $ 7.4 billion dollar. Sun Microsystems has been believed to be not doing well and not generating much ...

Seems, need to disable the version compatibility check flag in the firefox console. 1. Type about:config in your firefox url bar. 2. Press 'I'll be careful, I promise! ' button. 3. Right click on the page, follow New->Boolean 4. Create a variable with this name extensions.checkCompatibility and choose the value as false 5. Restart the ...

I’ve been reading a lot about scalability and real world architecture. Found that only two out of world’s 11 heavy traffic serving websites us Java. How about the rest? They rely on plain LAMP architecture. (Picture Source: PingDom.com) (Click on ...

Firefox 2 is yet to die sooner. Mozilla has recently announced that the FireFox 2 will meet the End of Life (EOL) by December 2008, and it will no more support the version. This move will encourage the people to switch over to higher version of FireFox (3.0 and above) ...

Google announced the launch of Voice Search Application for iPhone last Friday (15 Nov 2008), but it was delayed due to Apple’s approval process. People bounced from Apple iPhone stores without getting the Google Voice Search App. Techcrunch.com claims that the iPhone should arrive at Apple stores sometimes today (17th Nov ...