Oracle Killed Sun’s Plan to Clone Intel’s Xeon Chip: NYT

The New York Times says that Oracle killed a Sun project to clone Intel’s x86 Xeon server chip and turn out a “no-frills, low-power variant” that it could put into thousands of servers for folks like Facebook, Yahoo and Google. The paper said it had heard tell of such a thing for a long time but could never quite nail it until recently when it happened to interview a couple of people “with knowledge of Sun’s plans,” “who are not authorized to speak publicly.” As part of the fey plan Sun bought the assets of one Montalvo Systems that had done work on low-power Intel clones and hired some “top talent” out of AMD.

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Apple's Foray into Fitness

If Apple's recent patent application tells you anything, its that the giant technology firm is working on further entry into the fitness space. That's something the fitness industry better pay close attention to. As the patent illustration shows on the left, the application includes an extensive interface running on the iPhone. The black and white images show the iPhone interface controlling and monitoring all details, from starting a treadmill to managing the number of curls you perform as part of a workout.

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ADF Security Revisited (Again Again)

This is a revisit of the ADF Security features under JDeveloper 11g and subsequent deployment to WLS. There are plenty of good examples and documentation on this feature and readers are encouraged to seek those out. This post is my cut of implementing ADF Security to make sure I've all the moving pieces clearly defined in my head. As usual I thought this post may be of interest to readers.

Assumptions

Readers understand the security concepts of authentication and authorization, and readers are familiar with the WLS security "myrealm" concept.

Sample Application

What I find difficult with the JDev 11g Fusion Guide is the raw depth of information to read and assimilate around the security space. Section 29 has 80 odd pages on security which is a lot to digest. Without a doubt security is an important topic but trying to understand the full 80 pages leaves me wiped out.

To make the discussion on ADF Security easier, let's discuss an extremely simple application and then describe what we're attempting to achieve in terms of security.

Consider the following application:


... and the following page flow:


The diagram reveals the following points about our application:

1) The Splash page is a landing page for our application where new unauthenticated sessions will land as they access the application for the first time. This page will be a simple web page with no ADF Bindings. It will provide links to the other 3 pages.

2) ViewBookings, a page showing data using ADF Bindings, will be a secured page. Only authenticated users will be able to access the page and they must have the ADMIN role.

3) ViewEvents, another databound ADF page using ADF Bindings, will also be a secured page. Only authenticated users will be able to access the page, but there are no role restrictions on the page, giving any authenticated user the right to access the page.

4) ViewOrganisations, another databound ADF page using ADF Bindings, will not be secured. Therefore authenticated and non-authenticated users will be able to access the page, and implicitly via this, there are no role restrictions on the page.

(You'll note in the above points I've been careful to identify databound pages that have ADF Bindings (ie. ViewBookings) and those that don't (ie. Splash). The ADF Security mechanisms *only* work for pages that have ADF Bindings and the relating pagedef files. A page that doesn't have ADF Bindings is not secured. This implies how we treat the unbound Splash page vs the bound ViewOrganisations page is different. The mechanisms for this will become apparent further in this post.)

Best practice side note: as a general recommendation while this article demonstrates a page that is totally unsecured via the ADF Bindings mechanism, readers should give strong consideration to create PageDef files for all pages regardless if they are databound or not. This is done by selecting the Page Definitions option from the page's context menu, then allocating them the anonymous-role making them accessible to anyone as explained later in this article. Implementing this gives you a number of advantages:

a) Improved control of the public page's content, displaying different content for authenticated vs unauthenticated users
b) A consistent security implementation across all pages
c) Easier to audit the security implementation

In order to support our application as described in the points above, we'll need a number of security "parts" for our application. Following is a summary of those parts, of which we'll describe in detail next in this document

1) A login page to authenticate users
2) An application role called ADMIN
3) An application role that identifies authenticated users
4) An application role that identifies a user regardless if they're authenticated or not
5) The ability to secure the ViewBookings page for users with the ADMIN role
6) The ability to secure the ViewEvents page for users who are authenticated
7) A mechanism to create users, create roles and assign users roles

Luckily JDeveloper provides a number of features to make this easy.

We'll add one other further security requirement. Though our application will internally make use of a role named ADMIN, once deployed to our application server the role will be called ADMINISTRATOR. As such our additional requirement is:

8) Map the application role ADMIN to the enterprise role ADMINISTRATOR.

A final point before continuing, in order to keep this example simple I've steered away from the ADF Task Flow features of JDev 11g, specifically bounded task flows. In this simple example I've stuck to the default single unbounded task flow with separate pages in order to aid understanding. In reality both task flows and pages are treated in a similar fashion so what you learn here will apply to both.

Configure ADF Security

The ADF Security wizard implements a number of the security features we require. For our open application selecting the Application menu -> Secure -> Configure ADF Security option invokes the Configure ADF Security wizard. This wizard has been described in a number of other documents and examples, so I'll not talk through all it's options, but rather just show the options picked for our example.

In step 1 of 5 we pick the ADF Authentication and Authorization option:


Step 2 of 5 we'll get JDev to create a login and error login page for us, such that the user will see an in-page login page in our application to authenticate themselves:


Step 3 of 5 we'll ask JDev to blanket grant privileges to our existing pages. We'll tidy this up in a later step. Typically we wouldn't use this option but rather the "No Automatic Grants". No grants forces developers to explicitly think about each page and what privileges to define. For demonstration purposes we're showing the other option:


Step 4 of 5 we'll leave the "Redirect" option unselected. When selected this option provides the ability to have all authenticated users redirected to a standard landing page:


Step 5 of 5 tells you what changes JDev will make on your behalf to implement the features. This screen is useful as it gives you a good understanding of what configurations are required to make ADF Security work.


Once completed the most important JDeveloper screen from here for configuring security in your application is the jazn-data.xml editor. It's accessible by opening the file under Application Resources -> Descriptors -> META-INF -> jazn-data.xml, or the Application menu -> Secure -> ADF Policies. Ensure the Overview tab at the bottom of the editor is selected. On first opening the jazn-data.xml file you'll see:


As our application includes no bounded task flows, just web pages, select the Web Pages tab at the top of the editor. For our specific application it reveals:


From here you can see three of our four pages. As the Splash screen has no ADF Bindings, it does not display and therefore has no options for defining grants and priviliges. This is because as we mentioned early in the post, only databound pages are secured by ADF Security. If we alternatively select one of our databound pages we see:


In this case the ViewBookings databound page has the role "test-all" with "View" access granted to it. In a similar fashion ViewEvents and ViewOrganisations will have the same mappings. The role "test-all" and blanket assignments to each page was generated by step 3 of the Configure ADF Security wizard.

At this stage, of our initial 8 security requirements, we've implemented #1 only. Obviously the last few steps have set up a lot of internal infrastructure and configuration for us behind the scenes which assist the next sections of work.

Application Roles vs Enterprise Roles

Our application has the security requirement to create a role called ADMIN and secure the ViewBookings page with that role. In JDeveloper security "speak" this sort of role is referred to as an *Application Role*, effectively a role that the application defines and wants to enforce against certain resources, namely web pages and task flows in our ADF application. At deployment time this role is essentially private to the application.

Application Roles are distinctly different from Enterprise Roles as they have a finer level of granularity, they only apply to one application. Conversely Enterprise Roles map to user groups within an organisation and can apply across applications, though they allow the flexibility of a 1 to 1 mapping with Application Roles too.

Another way to categorize the difference between Application Roles and Enterprise Roles is where they're implemented. Application Roles are implemented in the application at hand, while Enterprise Roles are configured in our application server or higher level identity management systems such as LDAP, MS Active Directory, OID and more.

This distinction becomes important as we configure our Application Roles, as we need to define both the Application Role, the Enterprise Role, and the mappings between them. If we don't do this, when the application is deployed, and a user accesses the system with the Enterprise Role ADMINISTRATOR, the application server has no way of knowing that this maps to the application's ADMIN role.

As per the previous section the JDeveloper security wizard predefines an Application Role named "test-all" for us. From the jazn-data.xml editor this is evident on the existing grants to pages and task flows. The intention is for development and testing purposes, any user granted the test-all role has unlimited access to the application. For a production environment this role is not suitable as it is granted to all anonymous users; any user accessing the application is already a member of this role allowing unrestricted access.

To see where the Applications Roles are defined select the User and Roles tab on the bottom of the jazn-data.xml page, followed by the Application Roles node on the left hand side:. This will display the Edit JPS Identity & Policy Store dialog:


You'll note you can see the "test-all" role defined under the Application Roles node. In our case we'll add a new ADMIN role, and remove the "test-all" role as follows:


From here we want to map the Application Role to the Enterprise Role. Remember again that Enterprise Roles exist within our application server, while the Application Role is defined within our application.

We now move to creating the ADMINISTRATOR Enterprise Role under the same left node menu option:


Next we need to map the Enterprise Role to the Application Role. With the ADMINISTRATOR Enterprise Role selected, select the Assigned Roles tab on the right, followed by the plus sign and the Assign Application Role option. In the resulting Select Roles dialog select the ADMIN Application Role. The result:


Protecting our pages with Application Roles

On completing the previous steps, on returning to the ADF Policies tab followed by the Web Pages tab, we'll note that because we removed the test-all role, none of the databound pages have roles assigned to them (identified by the fact they no longer have arrows to the right of them):


To allow users with the ADMIN Application Role to access the ViewBookings page, we simply select the page, the plus button allows us to pick the ADMIN role from the appropriate dialog, and finally we select the View option on the right hand side:


The 4 other privileges, Customize, Edit, Grant and Personalize are relevant to MDS and not applicable to this post. As such the remaining View privilege tells us ADF Security via the jazn-data.xml file is at it's most basic determining if a user can access the page or not. It's not concerned with any other privileges.

Testing

This presents a good time to test our solution. Before we can test our solution we need to create a user with the appropriate roles.

There's two ways we can do this. In WLS we can create the user and Enterprise Role ADMINISTRATOR, and allocate the role to the user.

For development purposes JDeveloper presents a "cheats" way of doing this. We return to the jazn-data.xml editor and select the Users and Roles tab followed by selecting the Users node on the left. From here we can define users and their passwords (aka Credentials) and then via the Assigned Roles section we can select the ADMINISTRATOR Enterprise Role:


(Note if you have trouble defining the user's password, where JDeveloper shows a red box around the password field, this is because passwords must be a minimum length of 8 characters)

For testing purposes we'll also create a 2nd user who isn't allocated any roles at all:


Normally we wouldn't be creating such users in our JDev application, they'd be created in our WLS server or a connected LDAP server or similar. JDeveloper allows us to get away with this because of the following option. If you select the Applications menu -> Deployment node, you'll see JDev has autoconfigured an EAR deployment descriptor for you, with a number of options below:


In particular the Users and Groups check box means that JDev will attempt to deploy the Enterprise Role ADMINISTRATOR and the two users we created CMUIR and JDOE to the server when the application is deployed.

On running our app for the first time we can happily land on the Splash page.


(ok, ok, it's a very uninspiring application. If you want whiz bang go read a post on DVT controls)

Clicking the View Bookings link, the user is interrogated for their credentials via the logon screen:


Of note in the JDev log window you'll see the authorisation challenge as follows:

[JpsAuth] Check Permission
PolicyContext: [ADFSecurityDemo#V2.0]
Resource/Target: [view.pageDefs.ViewBookingsPageDef]
Action: [view]
Permission Class: [oracle.adf.share.security.authorization.RegionPermission]
Result: [FAILED]
For more information on this failure, please set -Djps.auth.debug.enable=true

Presumably this is the mechanism that tells the ADF application to show the login page.

If we log in as CMUIR allocated with the ADMIN role we see the View Bookings page in all it's glory. Alternatively if we log in as JDOE without the ADMIN role we see the rather flattering exception:

oracle.adf.controller.ControllerException: ADFC-06000: The ADF Controller caught exception {0} while performing control flow routing. See the stack trace for details.
 at oracle.adfinternal.controller.util.Utils.createAndLogControllerException(Utils.java:203)
 at oracle.adfinternal.controller.state.SuspendedNavigationState.resume(SuspendedNavigationState.java:54)
 at oracle.adfinternal.controller.application.LoginSuccessHandler.resumeNavigation(LoginSuccessHandler.java:117)
 at oracle.adfinternal.controller.application.LoginSuccessHandler.doCreateView(LoginSuccessHandler.java:61)
 at oracle.adfinternal.controller.application.BaseRequestHandlerImpl.createView(BaseRequestHandlerImpl.java:57)
-snip-
oracle.adf.controller.security.AuthorizationException: ADFC-0619: Authorization check failed: '/ViewBookings.jspx' 'VIEW'.
 at oracle.adf.controller.internal.security.AuthorizationEnforcer.handleFailure(AuthorizationEnforcer.java:147)
 at oracle.adf.controller.internal.security.AuthorizationEnforcer.checkPermission(AuthorizationEnforcer.java:126)
 at oracle.adf.controller.internal.security.AuthorizationEnforcer.checkRead(AuthorizationEnforcer.java:363)
 at oracle.adfinternal.controller.activity.ViewActivityLogic.execute(ViewActivityLogic.java:77)
 at oracle.adfinternal.controller.engine.ControlFlowEngine.doRouting(ControlFlowEngine.java:876)
-snip-

This is also recorded in the WLS logs. While it doesn't look nice, effectively ADF Security is telling JDOE to get nicked because he doesn't have the ADMIN role. If you wish to handle this in a more graceful way you can make use of the ADF controller's declarative exception handler to route the user to a "friendly" denied-access page, or alternatively we wouldn't have given the user the option to navigate to this page in the first place. Of course this article shows the above for learning purposes.

Of note if we were to log in as CMUIR or JDOE and access either the ViewEvents or ViewOrganisations pages we'll also see the same error. This occurs because we haven't allocated any privileges to these pages yet.

We've now satisfied our original security requirements #1, #2, #5, #7 and #8.

Allowing any authenticated user access

Our next requirements #3 and #6 are to secure the ViewEvents page, allowing only authenticated users to access this page, regardless of which roles they've been allocated.

On returning to the jazn-data.xml editor, selecting the ViewEvents page and then the plus button, you'll note in the dialog that shows there are 2 other predefined roles besides our ADMIN role, namely "anonymous-role" and "authenticated-role":


Quoting straight from the JDev online help:

"The anonymous-role is a role you can use when you want to grant access privileges to unauthenticated users. All users, including unauthenticated users, for example, those not required to log on to the application, are automatically considered by Oracle Platform Security to be a member of the anonymous-role. The authenticated-role is a generic role that you can use to allow authenticated users to access the databound web pages of your application. The authenticated-role requires the user to be successfully logged on."

As such if we allocate the authenticated-role to the ViewEvents page, and....


Alllowing unauthenticated users access

...for our requirement #4, we allocate the anonymous-role to the ViewOrganisations page:


....we satisfy the remaining requirements.

Testing

Now on testing our application, landing on the Splash screen we discover:

a) cmuir user can access all 4 pages
b) jdoe can access Splash, ViewEvents and ViewOrganisations, but not ViewBookings
c) an unauthenticated user can access Splash and ViewOrganisations, but not ViewBookings or ViewEvents

Troubleshooting

Some developers may find regardless of the above post, they may still encounter ADFC-06000/ADFC-0619 errors when accessing a page with a user who has the appropriate application role. A common reason you can still get this error is you've forgotten to map the Enterprise Role to the Application Role as described in the last part of the Application Roles vs Enterprise Roles section.

Further to this it's possible to see further debug output out of the ADF security engine (implemented by something called OPSS) by following this post by Duncan Mills.

Credit

My thanks must go to Frank Nimphius for reviewing this article oh-so-long-ago back in September 2009. Apparently having a 2nd daughter has somewhat delayed publication of some of my articles. God knows how people with 3 kids get anything done.

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Developing MVC Applications Using ZK and Spring

The ZK framework provides a variety of paradigms to develop Web applications. One the one hand it is always nice to have options, but on the other this can cause un-intentional paradigm disparities when several developers are using the framework to develop an application without a consistent design. By and far, the Model View Controller pattern has been adapted by various Web applications and frameworks (like Apache Struts, Apache Beehive PageFlows) to develop quality Web applications. The following is an illustration of how an MVC based Web application can be developed using ZK and Spring. ZK has introduced a lot of features that enable easy integration with Spring. The source code of example application is available for download here.

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iPhone vs. Android: Getting Over the Hype

I'm a long-time fan of Apple products. I've owned Macs for 20 years and an iPhone for the last 2. I also own a Motorola Droid, and a Google Nexus One phone. Over the years I've seen a lot of people convert to Mac, and even more convert to the iPhone. I've also watched as bloggers and the tech media drank concentrated Apple Kool Aid by the gallon in the last 2 years. These guys, along with the legions of Apple "fans", seem to have lost most measures of objectivity about the the iPhone and the iPad. So I thought I'd give business owners and managers trying to decide whether to buy iPhones or Android phones some of the major reasons to go with each of the platforms.

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Seven Rules to Improve Your Application Performance Practices

In this article I discuss the seven most important steps to improve your application performance practices. These simple-to-follow practices will help you to improve the way you deal with application performance. Besides eventually improving the performance of your applications it will help you to avoid playing the classical blame game which normally happens when something goes wrong

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Ten Days on the Road with an iPad...

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to head out to San Francisco, CA for Apple's WWDC and I decided to, in parallel, test one of my recent Tweets (Twitter: @ithain) which posed the question… "Can you rely on an iPad for a business trip?". OK, I did slightly move the goal posts, by adding… "and my iPhone", but that is a necessity that I would even have with my MacBook. My iPad is a 64GB WiFi version and before the trip it was loaded with training videos, apps and my music collection… everything that a fresh faced business traveler could foresee.

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Shift Gears Now!!! An iPhone Application That Tells You How to Drive

Oh no! An iPhone that tells you how to drive. That's all I need. The application is called DriveGain and it gives a range of visual and audio feedback on what changes are required by the driver to burn less fuel. I wonder if it uses my father's voice? It works with any petrol or diesel car with a manual transmission and features a database of over 8,400 European and 8,500 North American cars to choose from.

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What can we learn from Apple?

There is something very disturbing about the success of Apple. Many a management guru has talked about the importance of openness, listening to customer and building partnership in fostering innovation. Here are three strongly held beliefs which Apple had been ignoring with impunity. So … Is their success “because of” or “in spite of” these actions? It depends on what you define as success. Though there is lot of commotion in the internet about Apple overtaking Microsoft on market cap, if you take a dispassionate look their financial success is not really spectacular.

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Adobe Should Cut Its iPhone Losses and Switch Focus

Adobe should cut its losses with Apple and target its flagship Flash Player at telecoms carriers, independent analyst Ovum has claimed in a new report*. With the spat over Apple's refusal to support the Adobe Flash technology on its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices continuing to generate column inches, Ovum believes it is time for Adobe to turn the tables by courting new sponsors of its technology in the shape of telecoms operators. The report states that Adobe and telecoms carriers are faced with similar threats and share similar goals in relation to value-added applications and content, and that carriers should therefore seek an industry-wide partnership with Adobe to use Flash as the basis of their own multi-screen device, development, delivery, and distribution systems.

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Red Hat’s Server & Desktop Virtualization Move in Together

Red Hat’s desktop virtualization has joined its server virtualization in the 2.2 rev of its standalone KVM hypervisor Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV). Like 2.1 seven months ago, 2.2 can host and manage both Red Hat Linux and Windows VMs and now offers a single infrastructure for managing server and desktop virtualization deployments. RHEV for Desktops will deploy Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD) configurations, a k a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). It offers a web-based connection broker for users to access their hosted virtual desktops, coupled with the open source SPICE remote rendering technology for multimedia, including multiple monitors, HD-quality video and bi-directional audio/video for video conferences. Templating, thin provisioning and desktop pooling are also included.

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Google vs. Apple Control Freakism

Rich Cannings, Android security lead, blogged about remotely removing an app from people’s Android phones. Recently, we became aware of two free applications built by a security researcher for research purposes. These applications intentionally misrepresented their purpose in order to encourage user downloads, but they were not designed to be used maliciously, and did not have permission to access private data — or system resources beyond permission. As the applications were practically useless, most users uninstalled the applications shortly after downloading them.

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Working with Xcode Application Archives

Another of the great new features of Xcode is the concept of application archives. In the build menu of Xcode 3.2.3, you should see a new option called "Build and Archive". When you build and archive an application, the application archive will show up in Organizer like you see in the image below: 

Unfortunately we can't label or rename the individual archived builds of each application, but I love the fact that I have a nice historical timeline of archived builds. Presumably you would use this feature to archive every time you're going to try and submit something to the AppStore. These archives can be used to match up against crash logs so that you can track down bugs that are being experienced by your users "in the wild" that you might not necessarily be able to reproduce in your lab.

As you can see, there are 3 options available for each of the archived builds: Validate, Share, and Submit. Validate will run your application through a battery of tests and checks. These tests and checks are very similar (don't know if it's identical) to the checks and tests that are run by Apple engineers when your app is actually submitted to the AppStore. This is incredibly helpful in that it can alert you to some potential reasons for rejection immediately without you having to wait a week to find out why the app got rejected. Likewise, once you've validated your application you can submit it to iTunes connect right from here, you don't need to use the application loader tool anymore.

BIG IMPORTANT NOTE <== REALLY. VERY IMPORTANT!

If you click on Validate or Submit without having first gone to iTunes connect and created a new application version and chosen the "upload binary later" option, then these buttons will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. These buttons only work when there is an application version defined in iTunes connect that is awaiting a binary!

That said, one of my favorite features of the application archives is that you can now share them easily.

As you can see from the preceding dialog, all you need to do is highlight a particular archive and you can save the app to disk, distribute it to an enterprise (this is HUGE people... HUGE) and you can even e-mail the application to other people for ad hoc distribution so you can involve some beta testers in your application before submitting it to the App Store.

I can't tell you folks how much the features in Xcode 3.2.3 has changed the way I feel when writing iPhone apps. Lately it has become very tedious and cumbersome but with Xcode 3.2.3, I feel like I can finally relax and worry about the code and the features of the app and all the other crap like distribution and certification and AppStore submission is all taken care of.

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IBM Demands Cloud Cover

IBM filed a breach-of-contract / misappropriation of trade secrets suit in New York Supreme Court last week seeking to hold Joanne Olsen to her non-compete and stop her from going to Oracle for a year. It’s gotten a temporary restraining order according to InformationWeek. Olsen, with IBM for 31 years, was a general manager in IBM’s services unit and was hired by Oracle as senior VP of on-demand services, the SaaS versions of its software, reporting to none other than Larry Ellison. IBM alleges that she knows too much about IBM, its operations, its growth strategies and its potential acquisitions to fall into Oracle’s hands. IBM has gone to court a couple of times in the last couple years waving its non-competes around.

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iPhone Expected to Have a Million Unit Day

Apple’s new iPhone 4 went on sale Thursday in the US, UK, France, Germany and Japan and the punters are expecting hear that a million of them sold and are thinking maybe 10 million by the end of September. Like the old Model T, you can have any color you want so long as it’s black. Apple’s got some production glitch or another with the white one. It’s delayed until the middle of July. AT&T, its sole carrier, won’t be selling the thing until next week because its inventory is already depleted by the pre-orders that crashed its provisioning system. Verizon Wireless is expected to crack AT&T monopoly next year.

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Great iPhone 4 Launch Day

So it was only two weeks ago in San Francisco, at Apple's WWDC, that the iPhone 4's launch date of June 24 was set in front of 5,200 Worldwide Developers (from 57 countries) and the World's Press, I was lucky enough to be their and take it from me, there was a very large throng of reporters and camera OB crews. For most of the countries able to launch today, the initial pre-order stock were exhausted in a matter of hours.

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Azul Zings Its Java Hardware – Poof, It’s Software

Born to peddle pricey proprietary iron built around exotic multi-core chips that ratchet up the scalability of Java apps – a dangerous exercise that has demanded a $200 million investment from its backers – Azul Systems is now going to start selling software that does pretty much the same thing as its fancy appliances but it’s optimized for the latest class of cheap, ubiquitous, increasingly powerful x86 commodity servers. If the stuff clicks in the next year, eight-year-old Azul may be in a position to organize an orderly retreat from its hardware business, which, as it happens, reportedly just saw record Q1 earnings. It may have hundreds of widgets out there, but software’s an easier sell.

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Moyea Web Player V2.4.0.8

The latest Moyea Web Player V2.4.0.8 is released recently supporting JS application in navigation URL and auto-hide control bar in full-screen mode. Shenzhen P.R.C – Jun, 24th, 2010 - Moyea Software Co., Ltd. (http://www.moyeamedia.com): a rising developer of flash applications for the internet and multimedia software, today officially releases Moyea Web Player V2.4.0.8, which is the Moyea Web Player is one of the best flash video player creating and customizing programs for all-level users to make their own web player which can be embedded in multiple platforms like blogs, websites, forums and so on.

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iOS 4 Will Increase Enterprise Adoption...

AT&T has pre-sold 600,000 iPhone 4 devices - in fact they suspended pre-orders after one day due to overwhelming demand. With the massive interest in the iPhone, we know that new phones will be in enterprises in a matter of weeks. In addition, the number of current iPhone users who already use their devices in the Enterprise, that will upgrade the OS on their current device will be very significant.

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Sybase Study Shows Business Benefits of iPhone 4 and iOS 4 to Drive Demand

Sybase on Tuesday announced the results of a survey gauging consumer opinion on the forthcoming iPhone 4 and iOS 4 software, finding that many of the new features are expected to increase the use of iPhone as a business tool. Over half of respondents who currently own an iPhone said that the new features of iOS 4 will cause them to use their iPhone for work purposes more often. More than a third of respondents who don’t own an iPhone said they would consider purchasing one for work purposes based on the new features of both iOS 4 and iPhone 4. Over 2,000 Americans were polled in the Sybase commissioned study, conducted by Zogby International, that explored increasing demand for iPhones in the workplace, most anticipated iPhone and iOS features for conducting work, and work-related usage habits between iPhone users and non-iPhone users.

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Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days; One Million in Last 20 Days

In another remarkable surge, Apple said Tuesday that it had sold another million iPads in the last 20 days. That makes three million since the widget went on sale in the US 80 days ago, 375,000 a day. Currently available in America, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, iPad sales will expand to another nine countries next month.

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Sybase Backs iOS 4 in the Enterprise with Device Management and Security

Sybase has expanded its support for Apple devices with a full mobile device management and security solution for iOS 4. The release of Sybase Afaria delivers proven, market-leading functionality to empower enterprise IT to effectively manage the proliferation of personally and corporate-liable iPhones, while providing a high degree of security to meet the strictest corporate standards. “The increasing diversity of platforms being incorporated into enterprise environments, such as iPhone 4, have companies scrambling to enable the use of such high user-demand devices while maintaining corporate security policies,” said Jack Gold, President of J.Gold Associates, LLC. “Third party management and security applications like those from Sybase enable companies to augment these devices’ capabilities by keeping corporate data assets safe and separate from the private user sections of these devices. When such enhancements are deployed, these consumer devices can become capable business productivity tools connected to a corporate environment.”

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Secure Your Development Investment... Redesign for Universal App

After using the iPad for a few weeks, I am totally and utterly fixated by the device. What I am not 100% happy with are the iPhone Apps that it can run and I think that iPhone Apps just fall short on the iPad. I am no way suggesting that the wealth of iPhone apps already on the App Store are no good. Quite the contrary, I have a number of them on my iPhone and use them all daily, they really make my Mobile Lifestyle easy. The point really comes down to the screen real estate.

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SAP’s Roland Wartenberg to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Like other desktop-centric technologies such as anti-malware, PC tune-up utilities (disk de-fragmentation, registry cleaners, junk removers, etc) have primarily been a localized technology that relied on the user installing software on the computer to analyze and resolve problems that affect performance. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Roland Wartenberg, Chief Virtualization Evangelist at SAP, will introduce a new approach that takes PC tune-up and security strategies to a new level utilizing the power of the cloud as a means of delivery. He will also discuss new methodologies for using the intelligence of the community and the power of the cloud to accomplish computer maintenance at a lower total cost of ownership than traditional desktop technologies.

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Sybase Blogs Application Due Soon on iPhone via the Apple App Store

It seems nowadays, that all large companies have an presence on the App Store with their own iPhone Applications. Sybase already has the iAnywhere Mobile Office as well as the SAP Mobile Sales & Workflow Apps, but thanks to Sybase Employee Marcelo Palermo, we will soon have the Sybase Blogs Application, which will allow you to keep in touch with all news from Sybase, the industry leader in delivering mobile solutions.

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