Open Source Development News & More


ELC and FiveRuns Team on Enterprise Ruby on Rails

Companies advocate a hosted monitoring solution to improve the performance of RoR applications in the enterprise.

Red Hat Bundles Tooling and Runtime in New JBoss IDE

JBoss Developer Studio provides more open source options for enterprise application developers.

DataDirect Issues 3.1 Versions of XML Products

Upgrades include support for HL7 standard and MySQL Server.

Sun Releases Virtualization Management Tool Under GPLv3

Company adopts open source strategy with its new xVM Ops Center solution.

NetBeans Beta 2 Is Dual-Licensed

Latest release includes a licensing change that better supports open source Java development.

Open Source Limited in SMB Market, Report Finds

Small and medium businesses have resource constraints, making it not so easy to opt for open source solutions.

Affero General Public License V3 Released

The new license applies open source principles to network-run software.

Coverity Adds Java Support to OSS Scan Service

Users can check Java- and C/C++-based software for potential security and quality problems before compiling code.

Coming: Virtualization Validation Program From Microsoft

Redmond makes way for virtualization competitors.

First Look: DB4Objects Database

Product offers ease-of-use to those new to object-oriented databases.

Genuitec Checks Eclipse Pulse

Company combines Eclipse IDE provisioning and products with social networking site.

Virtualization Key at Oracle OpenWorld

Plans for Linux, Fusion and 11g were also part of the announcements at recent Oracle user group meeting.

Red Hat and Platform Computing Team on Grid Solution

Agreemeent marks effort to provide high-performance computing solutions at a lower cost.

Carnegie Mellon To Engage Yahoo! Open Source Supercomputing Project

Project will use Apache Hadoop-based supercomputer for data-intensive research.

Red Hat and Sun Ink Open Source Java Deal

The collaboration will help Red Hat create a Java development kit and runtime for its Linux products.