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"EGL is a modern programming language specifically designed to help business developers leverage the benefits of System i and Java platforms without extensive re-training to create Web 2.0-ready applications based on RPG code," said Todd Britton, Application Transformation Executive for IBM Rational Software. "IBM introduced EGL as the natural evolution of rapid development technologies already widely used in the marketplace and we believe that it holds tremendous benefits for TMW and their customers concerned about product modernization. "

Read more: TMW Systems Signs Agreement with IBM for Application Modernization Pilot | In this article: IBM, Waste, Web 2.0, IBM I, and IBM Rational Software

"[For] the project owners, it becomes a burden," since they do not know the contributor or how to contact them," said Ford. Also during the session, de Icaza downplayed concerns about Oracle owning Java via its planned acquisition of Java founder Sun Microsystems. Java is now "the property of the human race," said de Icaza. "It belongs to everyone."

Read more: Making money from open source: Still an issue (InfoWorld) | In this article: Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft, Novell, InfoWorld, Mono, and MySQL

"The field of programming languages was frozen with Java and C# for the longest time, and it's good to see more dynamic languages come in," Bolognese said.

Read more: Microsoft Plans to Open C#, Visual Basic Compilers | In this article: Microsoft, Visual Basic, All rights reserved, Trademark, Go, Web-based, Silver, and Google

"Opening up our application to Java has proven easy, fast, and efficient with isCOBOL," explained Pagnini.

Read more: Veryant’s isCOBOL Offers Java with COBOL for Sintecop | In this article: Cobol, Unix, Small business, Hp-ux, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS

An SAP spokesman said that, "Our overwhelming concern has been the future of Java and the choice customers in the database market will have."

Read more: Spotlight turns to SAP in Oracle, Sun debacle | In this article: Oracle, SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, MarketWatch, Cisco Systems Inc., Justice Department, MySQL, and 3Com

"Since there was no response, our CEO Leo Apotheker took the initiative and wrote to both Oracle and Sun CEOs in the middle of September to voice our concerns again, offer a dialogue, and attempt to clarify the issues," SAP said. "We have not heard back from Oracle, but instead found Leo Apotheker's letter leaked to the press last week. This is both telling and disappointing as it demonstrates that there is no real interest by Oracle to listen and explain how it wants to ensure the required level of customer choice in the database market as well as open access to Java," it said.

Read more: Spotlight turns to SAP in Oracle, Sun debacle | In this article: Oracle, SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, MarketWatch, Cisco Systems Inc., Justice Department, MySQL, and 3Com

"There is a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those of Java and C++, pushing people towards dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript, [but] some fundamental concepts such as garbage collection and parallel computation are not well supported by popular systems languages," the company says. "We believe it's worth trying again with a new language, a concurrent, garbage-collected language with fast compilation."

Read more: Google 'experiment' crossbreeds Python with C++ | In this article: Google, Go, C++, Python, Unix, JavaScript, Ken Thompson, and Rob Pike

"The Statement of Objections sets out the Commission's preliminary assessment regarding, and is limited to, the combination of Sun's open source MySQL database product with Oracle's enterprise database products and its potential negative effects on competition in the market for database products," Sun said in the filing. Oracle, though, fired back immediately, saying the objection "reveals a profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open-source dynamics." And indicating that other technologies are in limbo during the European deliberations, Oracle said, "Oracle's acquisition of Sun is essential for competition in the high-end server market, for revitalizing Sparc, and Solaris and for strengthening the Java development platform."

Read more: EC formally objects to Oracle buying Sun | In this article: Oracle, MySQL, Justice Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sun Microsystems, and Google

"We've just built a bridge to Java developers. ... If you're building [in] Java today and want to share assets with Visual Studio developers, you'll do that with the Teamprise technologies," said Dave Mendlen, Microsoft's senior director of development marketing.

Read more: Microsoft buys Teamprise bridge between Java and .Net developers | In this article: Microsoft, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Linux, Unix, Software development, and Team Foundation Server

"They were uncomfortable with a small partner providing the connectivity for their Java development teams," Hammond said. "Now they have Microsoft supporting their Java developers if they choose TFS as their single ALM solution."

Read more: Microsoft buys Teamprise bridge between Java and .Net developers | In this article: Microsoft, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Linux, Unix, Software development, and Team Foundation Server