Open Source Development News & More


Eclipse Survey Says Scrum Most Popular Methodology

Agile -- especially Scrum -- rules among developers who use Eclipse, the popular open-source IDE.

WSO2 Launches Open-Source Cloud Platform

Stratos is built on the open-source middleware maker's Carbon SOA platform.

Yahoo Develops Interface Classification System for Hadoop

Developers at Yahoo have been working on a new interface classification system in Hadoop.

Fedora 13 Supports NetBeans IDE

Release boosts outlook for the open source IDE now under Oracle's umbrella.

VMware's SpringSource Partners with Google on Cloud Computing

VMware and Google are joining forces to make life easier for developers aiming their apps at the cloud.

New Development Approach Powers Joomla! 1.6 Release

First beta of Joomla! 1.6 content management software highlights new development approach by the Joomla! Project team.

IDE 101: 5 Open Source Web Development Tools -- Vim and Its Kin

Catch up on these IDE options for Web development that you might not know you had.

VMware's SpringSource Acquires GemStone for Java Cloud Infrastructure

SpringSource is acquiring data management vendor GemStone to use that company's GemFire enterprise data fabric to give developers the infrastructure necessary for emerging cloud-centric applications.

Red Hat and Drupal Announce New Support/Training Offerings

Red Hat announces support for Red Hat Cloud Access; Drupal offers training for its open source "social publishing system."

Microsoft Attacks Android in HTC Patent Deal

Microsoft and HTC signed a patent deal involving HTC's mobile smartphones running the open source Android operating system.

Developers Rank Microsoft .NET Ahead of Google and Other Frameworks

Evans Data conducted a global survey of 425 developers earlier this month to find out their overall satisfaction with software frameworks and Web platforms.

Apache Cassandra Release 0.6 Brings Hadoop Support

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released version 0.6 of the Apache Cassandra open-source distributed database.

Oracle Reassures Developers about Future of MySQL

Oracle said Thursday it will increase its investment in the open-source MySQL database it acquired with its purchase of Sun Microsystems.

Oracle Changes Solaris 10 Licensing and Support Options

New terms appear to limit use of Solaris to a 90-day period unless the user obtains a support contract from Oracle.