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LXer: JavaOne conference may get a rival

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http://www.linuxquestions.org – Published at LXer: Even before the first Oracle-driven JavaOne conference has seen the light of day, an alternative Java conference is being planned for those not thrilled with Oracle. Media company Software & Support Media (S&S) plans to offer a U.S.-based version of its JAX (Java Apache XML) conference, which the company has been conducting in Germany for several years. "A lot of the Java community has been a little upset about how the JavaOne conference is being [run] by Oracle," said a source familiar with S&S plans. Read More... (HowTos)

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Oracle this week made a slew of announcements around the programming language and computing platform Java, which it acquired when it purchased Sun Microsystems in 2009. At the JavaOne conference, Oracle disclosed a roadmap for Java Standard Edition on Mac OS X. The company also announced that it's working on Java SE 8, which it will release in the summer of 2013.

Oracle has outlined at JavaOne, a conference that takes place in San Francisco, the future of the Java platform.

Hasan Rizvi, executive vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, and the Oracle Java Development team leaders explained that beginning with the Java SE 7 Update 6, released in August of 2012, consumers and developers have access to the latest Java SE features and security upda

LXer: An Update on JavaOne 2 years 38 weeks ago

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Like many of you, every year we look forward to the workshops, conferences and events related to open source software. In our view, these are among the best ways we can engage the community, by sharing our experiences and learning from yours. So we're sad to announce that we won't be able to present at JavaOne this year.

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Stephen Colebourne has proposed that Oracle split the Java Community Process into core and ecosystem organisations with Oracle retaining control of the core parts of Java while the surrounding JSR (Java Specification Requests) are handled by a newly independent body.

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OpenOffice.org Conference 2010 2 years 37 weeks ago

在 OpenOffice.org 的十岁生日的同时，OpenOffice.org Conference 2010 于当地时间 8月31日至9月三日在布达佩斯举行。

会议的主办方为 ODF Alliance Hungary 和 OOo 欧洲社区以及 Oracle。从会议日程看，此次会议的重头戏是OpenDocument Format (ODF)，以致可以称此次会议为 OpenDocument Conference。用与会者的话来说，这是OOo下一个十年发展的基石。更多详情请参见会议主页上的链接。此篇与会者的blog亦可参考。

2008 年的 OOo Conference 是在北京举行的，主办方为中科红旗。

P.S. ApacheCon 2010 将于11月3日至5日在亚特兰大举行，现在已经开始报名。

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