☞ History In Action

  • Google Code Blog: An update on JavaOne
    Google pulls all their people out of JavaOne. That’s going to be a big hole in the agenda since they employ all the good speakers… (well, most of them)
  • Bradley Kuhn’s recollections of the middle of the process – worth reading along with mine & Spot’s.
  • Interesting and useful exploration of the history of OpenSolaris and Solaris puts Oracle’s actions into perspective. It also shows why Illumos is a true open source community with a bright future, as it’s the coming together of skilled developers who each have different reasons to need a Illumos and are synchronizing those fragmentary interests in an open and equal community around a shared commons.