Posts Tagged ‘open’

VideoLAN VLC Media Player

February 26, 2010 |  by Nick  |  1 Comment  | 

Did you download a audio file and/or a video in a format you may or may not have seen before?  You try them, but they don’t work on your media players you have installed.  Did you try VideoLan VLC Media Player?  VLC Media Player is a free, open source that supports large number of codecs, sure I can list them all, but there is just way to many!  But, the people at VideoLAN has created a page for you that lists them all that are supported by VLC.  You can check that out here. I decided to create a little review about VLC, because I have asked a few people about VLC and they never heard of it, but they didn’t know that it can play just about every type of media format.

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Is Java as we know it doomed?

April 21, 2009 |  by Nick  |  1 Comment  | 

322px-java_logosvg  Oracle can now ensure continued innovation and investment in Java technology for the benefit of customers and the Java community. | Sun’s efforts to make Java open source have also led to decidedly mixed reviews.

The acquisition was partly defensive because Oracle probably did not want competitor IBM owning the Java language, he added.

Does Java’s open source status help it?

Ranadive doesn’t think Java’s open source status means all that much.He serves as a JCP executive committee member. How Oracle’s ownership may help Java at the Eclipse Foundation, an open source tools organization that has counted Oracle as a member but not Sun, Executive Director Mike Milinkovich sees the merger as a "very positive sign for Java and open source. Battles with IBM foreseenGCSI Commerce’s Roth, a former Sun and BEA employee who left BEA after Oracle acquired the company last year, was not optimistic about Java’s fate. Microsoft, Adobe may benefit a main benefactor of Oracle buying Sun is Microsoft, said Tibco’s Ranadive. Oracle also might de-emphasize Sun’s JavaFX rich media platform, McAllister said, which could help both Adobe and Microsoft, which offer the competing Silverlight and Flash/Flex technologies.