Thursday, April 30, 2009
Eagerly waiting ...
Today morning, as usual, I connected to the Internet to read what is going on in the world. The very first news item I read which is about swine flu put me on thoughts...
I am worried about what is happening in the world currently. Most of countries have been directly or indirectly dealing with some kind of war which has become a headache to the entire world. Moreover, each and every country is suffering from the recession and struggling to recover. Climate changes happening are reported not to be for the betterment of the humanity too. Plenty of deceases have attacked the entire world and nations are trying to eradicate those. Everyday, news related with murders can be found in I would say, any of news media.
There are plenty of things world has to worry about. Adding another problem, swine flu has come to play putting world in fear and contributing to weakens world economy further.
I don't know when those problems be solved or vanished. But, I am quite happy about the fact that the No 1 problem in Sri Lanka which is the terrorism by LTTE is being destroyed with support from international community although, there is a strong support for terrorism from so called developed countries. I am eagerly waiting for a better future in my country with full of peace..
I am worried about what is happening in the world currently. Most of countries have been directly or indirectly dealing with some kind of war which has become a headache to the entire world. Moreover, each and every country is suffering from the recession and struggling to recover. Climate changes happening are reported not to be for the betterment of the humanity too. Plenty of deceases have attacked the entire world and nations are trying to eradicate those. Everyday, news related with murders can be found in I would say, any of news media.
There are plenty of things world has to worry about. Adding another problem, swine flu has come to play putting world in fear and contributing to weakens world economy further.
I don't know when those problems be solved or vanished. But, I am quite happy about the fact that the No 1 problem in Sri Lanka which is the terrorism by LTTE is being destroyed with support from international community although, there is a strong support for terrorism from so called developed countries. I am eagerly waiting for a better future in my country with full of peace..
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Handed over donations for the people rescued from LTTE
Today, I participated to the event of handing over donations we (team members of the organization I work for) have collected for the people rescued from LTTE terrorists in the north of Sri Lanka. The donations were handed over to the collection center at BMICH. By the time we reached BMICH, I saw several other vehicles were also in the queue waiting until their turn of handing over what they have collected. Some donations were personal donations while others were from different organizations. There was a crew to collect and arrange items handed over to BMICH. Having seen what have been collected and willingness of people for donating, I was pleased that children of mother Sri Lanka have got together to help their own relatives as we did when Tsunami hit Sri Lanka in year 2004. More information about donating can be found here.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Few thoughts on Oracle's acquisition of Sun
"Oracle acquires Sun", a major news item being discussed in specially Oracle and Sun community. On April 20th 2009, Oracle has announced that an agreement was placed to acquire Sun Microsystems (Sun). They say that the acquisition would combine best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems. According to what Oracle says, the plan is to deliver an integrated system which consists of all the pieces fit and work together so that customers do not have to do the integrations. This sounds good so far.But, I am still curious about the future of Java Community Process (JCP). Among organizations like Apache Software Foundation, Elipse Foundation Inc., Google, IBM, Intel, Springsource etc., Oracle is also an executive member of JCP. With acquisition of Sun by Oracle, although, it is too early to predict the future of JCP, I assume that there would be a considerable impact on JCP. May be Oracle would take the control of JCP.
Another area as a Java fan, I am interested is the Java Open Source Community. With the acquisition, I am bit scared about open source products in IT industry. For example, It is predictable that GlassFish which is an open source application server would have a huge impact from Weblogic server which is owned by Oracle after the acquisition of BEA. How about Sun’s MySQL open source database customers? I assume there would be a huge impact on MySQL with this acquisition from industry leading commercial DBMS Oracle.
On the other hand, I would be happy to assume that improvements to OpenOffice could be seen in the future with this acquisition. A good competition will be there between OpenOffice and MS Office.
The deal has not been closed yet and it is too early to predict what would happen in each community due to Oracle's acquisition of Sun. It is obvious that acquisition has made Oracle more powerful than ever and it would be interesting to see the reaction from IBM.
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