Today, Sun hit the market with long awaited news. The Java platform is now released open source and under GPL lisence. According to a statement (in Finnish) by Sun representative the contribution consists of approximately 7 million lines of source code. This is one of the biggest donations ever made by a commercial company to the open source community. The initial release includes the source code of Java Standard Edition (SE) and Micro Edition (ME). Sun has further promised to continue opening the source code. Read more from the company’s website.
Data on mobile devices, such as laptops, form today a major security threat. Companies and institutes holding customer data on their mobile devices face a significant risk if the data is not secured. A security breach survey made in 2006 shows how laptops were notoriously visible in the records. In one case more than 26 million personal information records were compromised when a laptop and disks were stolen from employees homes. Moreover, the breaches involving laptops included sectors regarded as fortresses of information security such as patient records.
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