Oracle said Thursday it will increase its investment in the open-source MySQL database it acquired with its purchase of Sun Microsystems.
VMware's SpringSource division announced today that it will be adding a newly acquired lightweight messaging system, RabbitMQ, to its implementation of the Java-based open source Spring Framework.
According to analysts at IDC, Oracle losing the "Father of Java" James Gosling this week is the least of Oracle's Java challenges.
James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language, has left his position at Oracle Corporation, he revealed on Friday in a blog posting. Gosling says he actually quit the company on April 2.
Developers can start building apps with the powerful tooling in Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4.
The release of the iPad has been hyped like no product since, well, the last new Apple gadget, the industry-transforming iPhone.
Nearly half of U.S. IT professionals surveyed believe that the risks of cloud computing outweigh its benefits.
Vendors shift strategies to ease adoption, improve ROI and target software development lifecycle pain points.
Microsoft on Friday announced that it had released the final Parallel Data Warehouse version of SQL Server 2008 R2 to testers.
Speculation is rampant that Apple is developing an iPhone that will work on Verizon's cell network.
New terms appear to limit use of Solaris to a 90-day period unless the user obtains a support contract from Oracle.
Microsoft today released its second "critical" off-cycle patch for Internet Explorer this year.
Even a fire-proof safe needs additional protective measures, and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 is no different.
Last week Google released SkipFish, a no-cost, open source "security reconnaissance tool" for Web-based applications.
The Eclipse Foundation has given a thumbs up to two new projects under the Eclipse Runtime (RT) project.
Red Hat showed off the latest incarnation of its JBoss Developer Studio IDE at the annual EclipseCon developer conference, underway this week in Santa Clara.
Two Oracle execs kicked off the annual EclipseCon conference with a keynote focusing on the future of Java under the stewardship of Oracle.
San Francisco-based research and analysis group Focus has named systems engineer as the "best job in America."
Novell's board turns down $2 billion bid calling it ‘inadequate.’
Microsoft is expanding its desktop virtualization portfolio with improved licensing changes and technology upgrades and an extended pact with Citrix Systems.