SD Times Issue 264

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Contents
ISSUE 264 • APRIL 2011
FROM THE EDITORS SPECIAL REPORT
8 Lawsuits pose no threat to Android’s future Business Intelligence adapts
8 The new king maker of Java to modern techniques
8 Letters
NEWS
13 ‘Gamification’ of tasks is serious business
14 EclipseCon heralds new day for Java
16 Harvard’s Valiant wins Turing Award
18 Developers weigh in early on Android Honeycomb
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20 Microsoft gets LightSwitch ready with second beta
20 NVIDIA unifies CUDA memory FEATURES
22 Adobe toes Apple’s line on apps for iOS
A manager’s primer on Windows Azure
25 Enterprises take the spotlight at AnDevCon and SQL Azure
26 Oracle adds mobile application framework
26 Private clouds go professional
29 Analytics finds new world of social data
30 EXI: A smaller, faster XML
33 ComponentOne updates .NET charting, control suites
COLUMNS
67 WINDOWS & .NET WATCHby Larry O’Brien page 49
In the form of a question
Shopping around for app stores
69 GUEST VIEWby Mary Gorman and Ellen Gottesdiener
Are your practices jumping the shark?
71 GUEST VIEWby I.B. Phoolen
Agile tablets in the cloud
73 ANALYST VIEWby Rob Enderle
Is the iPad a fading fad?
74 INDUSTRY WATCHby David Rubinstein
ITIL gains relevance for developers
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OPINION
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LETTERS FROM THE EDITORS
DevOps is Never fear: Lawsuits pose
the way to go
no threat to Android’s future
Great article, Alex (“The coming devops
movement,” March 2011, p. 74). I’m sur- Microsoft’s Android-related lawsuit to hurt Google, which is currently Public
prised that Mike Gualtieri thinks that against Barnes & Noble reminds Enemy No. 1 at Redmond. If Microsoft
cloud computing will be the undoing of us of SCO Group’s 2004 lawsuit against can slow down Android, that gives Win-
the DevOps movement. I think it is quite AutoZone. dows Mobile a chance to catch up.
the contrary. To grossly oversimplify: At the time, By contrast, Oracle’s lawsuit against
In my view, software-as-a-service is SCO alleged that Linux contained code Google—related to Android’s Java virtu-
what started the DevOps movement. stolen from Unix, and it wanted anyone al machine, called Dalvik—is probably
The fact that traditional IT services can who used Linux to pay SCO a licensing focused more on getting cash into Larry
be outsourced to IaaS or PaaS fee. SCO sued AutoZone and Daimler- Ellison’s seemingly bottomless coffers.
providers creates a need for “infrastruc- Chrysler, claiming that because the two In either case, we believe that none
ture software:” software that facilitates companies used Linux, they were using of these lawsuits will significantly
agile deployment, quick spin-up and SCO’s Unix intellectual property without impact Android, Android device mak-
teardown of server instances, and other a license. The suits failed, but did scare ers, software developers or consumers.
sorts of automation. many IT professionals, and perhaps Whether these are resolved in court-
All these “new” operations tasks are slowed down enterprise Linux adoption. rooms or in the proverbial smoke-filled
done in code, so the marriage between The more recent lawsuit by room, they will be resolved in a way
Dev and Ops is natural. Another reason Microsoft alleges that Android violates that doesn’t slow Android’s momentum.
why the move to the cloud is fostering five of Microsoft’s patents. Because Perhaps Google will rewrite key parts
the DevOps movement is that with Barnes & Noble’s e-book reader is of the platform to avoid the IP contested
cloud services, any hiccup in operations based on Android, the suit claims that by Microsoft and Oracle. Perhaps it’ll
has an immediate impact on revenue. B&N is using Microsoft’s intellectual arrange a broad cross-licensing agree-
That’s why developers—particularly in property without a license. ment with customer indemnification.
the SaaS space—always code with Is the goal to get some incremental Either way, we’re not worried we don’t
operations in mind. revenue for Microsoft? More likely, it is believe you should be worried. (cid:2)
Dave Kresse is spot-on with his
remarks about “closing the feedback The new king maker of Java
loop.” DevOps is also very much about
visualization in real time of key metrics.
Tools such as Librato Silverline, New Is the Eclipse Foundation a tool mak- pendent vendor consortium, it’s clear to
Relic, Cloudkick, Loggly, etc. (disclosure: er or a king maker? Mike Milin- that the Eclipse Foundation is the true
I work for Librato) can give real-time kovich, executive director of the Foun- standard-bearer of the dynamic module
insight into server resource usage (virtu- dation, appeared to be throwing down system for Java. Even though the
al or physical), performance bottlenecks, the gauntlet when he told SD Times’ Eclipse Foundation doesn’t even sit on
etc. But a key difference is that it is now Alex Handy, “I made it really clear in the OSGi Alliance’s board, when we
at the application level as opposed to the Eclipse’s vote on the Java 8 JSR that if meet with Eclipse officials, they say
hardware level; that is the feedback loop there wasn’t room for OSGi to play “OSGi” more than “Eclipse.” For the
that cloud services need. within the modularity story for Java 8, past five years, OSGi DevCon has been
With these tools, you can react imme- that we would be voting against it.” co-located with EclipseCon. And, as
diately to unexpected spikes in resource Those don’t sound like the cautious Milinkovich implied, the Eclipse Foun-
consumption or a drop in performance, words of an organization focused on dation is representing—and voting for—
and you can pull up logs and time-series building tools. Certainly, the Eclipse OSGI’s interests at the JCP.
charts to find the source of the problem. Foundation has moved far beyond its We like seeing the new, more active
I say DevOps has only just started. (cid:2) initial spin-off from IBM’s tools group. Eclipse Foundation, willing to weigh in
Nik Wekwerth, United States Its seat at the Java Community Process’ on technologies and specifications
Java SE/EE Executive Committee table beyond its own. The JCP is strength-
is ecognition that Eclipse, not NetBeans, ened through the Foundation’s involve-
Letters to SD Times should include the
is on top of the tool stack. But there’s ment, just as it was with Apache on the
writer’s name, company affiliation and
clearly more going on at the Foundation. board.. We encourage Eclipse to stay
contact information. Letters become
the property of BZ Media and may be One area of interest is OSGi. While involved, and for Mike Milinkovich to
edited. Send to [email protected]. the OSGi Alliance is nominally an inde- keep up the pressure. (cid:2)
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