The European Commission today cleared Oracle's $7.4 billion agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems, paving the way for the two companies to close the deal.
A free toolkit helps database users migrate from MySQL to Microsoft's SQL Server database on-premise or in the cloud.
The latest version of MIT Kerberos, the free and open source implementation of the widely deployed network authentication protocol for client-server applications, goes alpha this week.
AT&T has joined the board of directors of Java Verified, an IT industry group that promotes testing standards for Java ME applications.
Google's OpenSocial is fueling "a major evolutionary shift" in the development space around Software as a Service (SaaS), claims Australian collaboration and development tool maker Atlassian.
JetBrains releases IntelliJ IDEA 9.0, the latest version of the first Java IDE with integrated code refactoring.
Open source middleware provider WSO2 is billing its new Gadget Server as "a radical departure from traditional portals."
The future of the Eclipse platform will take center stage this week as open source and Java developers gather for the sixth annual EclipseCon 2009 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. where organizers will reveal the progress of Eclipse 4.0 and the Jetty Project.
Red Hat Software has released the first major update to its Eclipse-based developer toolset.
The !exploitable Crash Analyzer is designed to help developers classify, assess and ultimately prevent program crashes.
The BSIMM maturity model sheds light on how enterprises are implementing security initiatives in their internal software development efforts
SpringSource released updates to the dynamic programming language and the open source Web app framework last week.
Pulsar aims to create a standard mobile application development tools platform based on the open source Eclipse framework.
Open source Web framework Lift now available under Apache 2.0 license.
Running KDE apps on Windows XP is a nice idea, but the bugs aren't worked out yet.