Open Source Development News & More


Red Hat and Platform Computing Team on Grid Solution

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

Virtualization Key at Oracle OpenWorld

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

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.

XAware's Data Integration App Goes Open Source

Company teams with MySQL and offers XML-handling capabilities for service-oriented architectures and traditional database management applications.

Google Seeks Social Networking High-Ground

Open API's for social networking portal fosters a write-once approach for developers and enables portability.

Medical Software Firm Joins Eclipse Foundation

Misys signs up for Open Healthcare Framework project.

Zend Takes PHP Studio to Eclipse

Zend Technologies announces Eclipse version of Zend Studio.

Open Source Adoption Low but Growing

Security and support were key concerns in Independent Oracle User's Group survey.

First Look: The Curl Development Environment

The Curl language offers an alternative to AJAX through its fat-client approach, and the latest release features open source code.

Latest Microsoft Patent Protection Deal: Turbolinux

Live Search to be default on Turbolinux desktops as part of deal.

SAP Adds Eclipse Tool, Joins OSGi

Company contributes memory management tool to open source Eclipse environment.

IT Must Tackle Five Trends, Analyst Group Says

Let innovation happen with Web 2.0 apps and software-as-a-service delivery.

IT Must Tackle 5 Trends, Analyst Group Says

The points of change cited by the research firm include Web 2.0-style apps, SaaS, global-class computing, "consumerization" of IT and open source.

DataDirect Puts the zIIP in SOA Mainframes

The company's latest data integration solution for mainframes optimizes mission-critical apps using IBM's "System z" specialty engines.