Blogging Roller

Jeff Chilton writes in Websphere Power about his adventures porting Roller to Websphere. He tried to take the standalone Roller demo release, which anybody can install in less than 30 seconds, over to Websphere and found - big surprise here - Websphere is a pain in the ass. Want to find out if Roller runs on Websphere? You'll have to wait for part II.

MacCentral: Sun Java Studio Creator supports Mac OS X: "Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday announced the release of Sun Java Studio Creator for Mac OS X and Solaris (x86 Platform Edition) operating systems. It's also now available in Japanese and simplified Chinese languages. Java Studio Creator lets Java developers create business applications"

In other Netbeans related news: Netbeans 4.1 Early Access release is available. Netbeans 4.1 EA includes "over 15 new modules for developing J2EE 1.4 applications" including support for J2ME, EJB, Web services, and the Sun Java Application Server 8.1.

Via Cory Doctorow. Jonathan Schwartz critizes HP in his blog, HP lawyers demand that Schwartz removes the criticism, and Sun fires right back:

Once again, in certain of the places this is a statement of opinion by Jonathan Schwartz. His opinion is based on his good faith assessment of the current climate of HP. Alternatively, however, Sun will also stand behind this as a statement of fact that is true and accurate based on the above substantiation. As detailed by the above facts, we have seen signs that HP is abandoning HP/UX.

Jonathan Schwartz's opinions and even his vigorous debate on this subject as well as Sun's product comparisons and dialog on these commercial matters are inherent in Sun's competition with HP and are part of the free market system in which our companies operate. For our statements of fact, Sun has valid, objective and verifiable evidence. Accordingly, and based on the above, Sun affirmatively stands by its claims regarding HP/UX and will not agree to cease making such truthful and/or subjective claims.

Hmm.. good point(s). HP, here's what you should do: upgrade your internal Roller blog system to Roller 1.0, make it external, and get blogging!