Open Source Development News & More


Joyent's Hosted Apps Back Up, Going Open Source

Hosted app provider describes plans after server failure.

WSO2 Unveils Open Source Mashup Server

The company also rolled out a beta of a new hosted mashup service.

EnterpriseDB Jumps Into the Cloud

Beta of hosted relational database management system is planned to start in March.

Nokia To Acquire Trolltech

The deal opens the way for Trolltech's cross-platform Qt app framework to get a wider foothold across desktop and mobile devices.

Zimbra Selects Webtide's Dynamic Web Solution

Company added push server technology to support its dynamic Web-based e-mail and collaboration software.

MuleSource Kicks Into SOA Governance

An open source governance solution for service-oriented architectures was released by the company, along with other SOA products.

Sun's MySQL Move: A Win-Win

Most analysts believe the acquisition benefits both companies and is a signature milestone in Sun's long and painstaking trek back to relevancy.

Zend Offers PHP App Server and Dev Tools

Enterprise-grade tools, part of the Eclipse development platform, are now available.

IBM Opens Jazz Dev Community

All registered developers can now contribute to open standards collaboration solutions being developed at Jazz.net.

WSO2 Releases Web Services Framework for Ruby

Company adds additional scripting language capability to open source SOA platform.

Strongspace's 10-Day Crash Highlights Web Storage Risks

For the past 10 days, Sausalito, Calif.-based online document and storage hosting company Joyent struggled to get its online secure document collaboration service, Strongspace, back online.

UPDATED: Sun To Acquire MySQL for $1 Billion

Acquisition will establish an open source database market foothold for Sun.

Early Look: Acid3

The latest Web Standards Project browser test will focus on the script-rendering capabilities of browsers, although it's not ready for prime time yet.

Microsoft Begins Releasing Source Code for .NET Framework Libraries

Microsoft today followed up on its earlier promise to start releasing the .NET framework library source code for .NET 3.5.

TopQuadrant Releases Semantic Web Dev Tools

The company added to its suite of tools that aim to help enterprises be more agile with their semantic Web development projects.