Sun FUD against IBM: Now, here's an interesting quote from InfoWorld on Sun's upcoming Web services stack: "When you buy it from Sun, you'll be able to buy it all at one price, install it all [for] one price, and have blueprints and guidance to install it yourself," Bauhaus [Sun vice president of Java Web Services] said. This is unlike IBM's Web services products, which require purchasing integration services from IBM Global Services, Bauhaus...
BusyBusyBusy (I am). For those with more time and some curiosity for things that mattered (mostly) in the past: check out Microsoft’s newly released docs on NDR. ;)
Airport WLAN (no, not Apple). Greetings from Dubai airport. They’ve got a wireless LAN here; one more airport to add to the “we like that very much” list. Good connectivity and a freebie - at least in the lounge.
Crazy Travel Times. I am going to be traveling almost every weekday and some weekends until June (!). There are a few weekdays sprinkled across my schedule that I'll take off at home, but all in all, my schedule is entirely packed. There's even stretches of two or three weeks where I'll be home or near home only long enough to switch suitcases.
But not only for me, but also for...
Ingo seems very happy about me announcing this, because he's been waiting impatiently for me to do that since we two had a little "backroom demo" session at a conference last November.
Status report: The GPF problem that had been bugging me (and the code) for three weeks has been solved and what I before suspected to be a GC bug...