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.

The concept of non-Java languages on the Java Virtual Machine is not new. The JVM has played host to several ported languages such as Ruby (JRuby), Python (Jython) and even Javascript (Rhino) along with languages designed primarily for the JVM like Scala and Groovy. Clojure (pronounced like closure) is a general purpose programming language, hosted primarily on the JVM.

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

On Monday, I participated in a Panel Discussion “Technology Trends” organized by CSI Pune at MIT college. The panelists were Anand Deshpande, CEO of Persistent Systems, Shridhar Shukla, MD of GS Lab, Monish Darda, GM of BladeLogic India (now part of BMC Software), and me. Below are my quick-n-dirty notes of the other panelists tech trends.

Recently as part of a blog on the IndicThreads Conference On Java website, I listed the questions that I encounter frequently from Java developers. Thought it made sense for me to put them up on IndicThreads for wider readership & general discussion.