Oracle has officially proposed the Nashorn Project, an implementation of a lightweight, high-performance JavaScript runtime for Java, as a new project for OpenJDK.
VMware's SpringSource division this week published the first release candidate (RC1) of the Spring Framework 3.2.
The Mono project this week announced an update of the open source .NET development framework that includes a C# 5.0 compiler supporting asynchronous programming, along with a host of other improvements.
Continuuity Inc. this week announced Big Data AppFabric, consisting of big data application development tools and an application runtime platform running in the cloud.
Alfresco has released a new open API for its cloud-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform, Alfresco in the Cloud.
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company AppFog today announced the acquisition of Nodester, provider of a PaaS based on the open source Node.js server-side JavaScript development environment.
Oracle's recent release of the Java Platform Standard Edition 7 Update 6 (Java SE 7 U6) is available on Mac OS X.
The Technology Preview of Red Hat's OpenStack software was released this week.
Rackspace has made available free software for the purpose of building private clouds based on the same platform that runs the company's cloud hosting service.
Racskpace announced that as of August 1, its Cloud Servers and its Rackspace Cloud Databases now run on the OpenStack platform.
This version of the venerable open-source integrated dev environment adds new integration with the JavaFX Scene Builder design tool, support for multiple PHP frameworks and updated support for the Groovy language, among other changes.
Google announced at its annual Google I/O developer conference that it will offer an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud.
There are some surprising findings in The Eclipse Foundation's annual survey of developers about their usage of open source tools.
JetBrains, the force behind the open-source Kotlin project, announced this week the availability of Kotlin M2.
Microsoft's Windows Azure platform will be receiving support for both Linux and IaaS, and is refocusing its cloud offering as a hybrid product.