Betting against Oracle’s good intentions

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Mar 27, 20072 mins

Best of the blogs: Matt Asay is not just a blogger; he also has a law degree. (No jokes, please.) He joins the conversation about Oracle’s case against SAP and TomorrowNow by chiming in with Josh Greenbaum and Nick Carr, who both suggest that there’s no there there. “Nick and Josh may be wrong,” Asay writes in this Open Sources post. “But I’d bet on them over Oracle’s good intentions any day.”

From the Test Center: The Java IDE landscape is changing, to be certain. As such, Andrew Binstock looks at Borland JBuilder, IBM Rational and Sun NetBeans. “I was impressed by how much these products have matured during the past two years but surprised that they haven’t advanced further in some respects,” he writes. So which is the best one? Well now, that all depends on your needs, but each fits a specific area. Read the full review. Also, there are more Java IDE tools to try, including three from Eclipse, JetBrains and Oracle.

Q&A: McAfee’s new CEO, David DeWalt, says the company is proud to be a pure-play security vendor, and discusses his road map for the future, in this interview with Matt Hines.

Security: Researchers speaking at the ShmooCon show expressed concern about the security of $100 notebooks being built by MIT’s One Laptop Per Child program. At issue is whether the computers will fall prey to malware and hackers once they land in children’s hands.