In the recent ‘State of PHP and Zend Framework Development’ survey by Zend Technologies 85% of PHP developers surveyed named Linux as their primary operating system while 11% named Windows and 2% named Mac OS X. However when asked to name their primary operating system for development, 42% named Windows versus 38.5% who chose Linux and 19.1% who chose Mac OS X.

Today’s Oracle – Sun webcast covered Oracle’s plans for Java & other Sun technologies post acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. While the twitter hashtag #oraclesun is a good place to find info & opinions on Oracle + Sun, there’s also a lot of not so useful stuff there.

Go Green Initiative @ the 4th IndicThreads Conference On Java 09 that starts on this Friday in Pune, India, brings several novel ideas aimed at promoting a green & eco-friendly ethic.

Google today opensourced the Google Chrome OS, billed as “an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web.” The open source project is Chromium OS.

However it looks like Chrome OS’ dependency on the web will cut out most of the developing and the underdeveloped world, which has average to pathetic levels of Internet connectivity.

Android continues to grow in popularity but the concerns being raised about Android’s approach and use of Java refuse to go away.

Noop is a new language that attempts to blend the best lessons of languages old and new, while syntactically encouraging industry best-practices and discouraging the worst offenses. Noop is initially targeted to run on the Java Virtual Machine, is what the Noop site says.