iPhone killing Java?
In the run-up to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2008, Chris Tompkins, an online editor of The Industry Standard, thinks the iPhone's gaming potential "might finally put the lacklustre Java-based cellphone gaming market to death," according to Slashdot.
He cites the iPhone's use of Core Animation adapted for ARM processors, which he says allows for the advanced effects of OS X and now OpenGL-accelerated 3D games, as well as the importance of an on-demand store and Internet connection.
Tompkins says that while certain genres lend themselves to the iPhone's touch controls, such as real-time strategy games, the lack of physical controls will force developers to creatively approach the multitouch and accelerometer on the iPhone.
Sun updates SOA
Sun Microsystems is updating its SOA and business integration software, adding a data management option and leveraging enterprise service bus capabilities based around the Java Business Integration specification, says InfoWorld.
Event processing and business process management are featured as well. Release 6 of Sun Java CAPS (Java Composite Application Platform Suite) adds the new Sun MDM (Master Data Management) suite, which can be bundled with Java CAPS 6 or acquired separately.
MDM suite provides a single view of customer data across disparate systems, Sun said. With the suite, users can leverage information across their organisations, identify the most valuable customers, and find opportunities to cross-sell and up-sell products and reduce operational costs, Sun said.
Sun eyes SSD
Sun Microsystems, EMC and Seagate are all looking to solid state disk (SSD) flash technologies, but unlike its competitors, Sun believes it's not enough to just swap out storage disks to gain the benefits of SSD, says internetnews.com.
The company aims to integrate SSD flash into Solaris and other open source storage technologies.
Sun's the third major storage player to go SSD. Its effort follows EMC's initial splash into enterprise SSD earlier this year, when it announced it was adding the drives to its Symmetrix DMX-4 storage system.
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