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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.

Eclipse RAP Integrates Java Tools for RIA Development

Platform lets users build rich Internet applications in Java via the Eclipse development environment.

Distributed Computing Studies Get Google, IBM Support

The two companies are providing material support to universities with resource-intensive computing curricula.

Borland Simplifies Modeling in New ALM App

The company's open source application lifecycle management product now includes a toolkit that supports domain-specific languages.

Trolltech Integrates Qt Framework with Eclipse

Developers of rich Web apps can now work across C++ and Java environments.

OSS Gains Ground in Survey of IT Pros

Open source software (OSS) is not so much the underdog in the IT world, according survey findings announced by Barracuda Networks, a provider of e-mail and Web security appliances.

OSS Gains Ground in Survey of IT Pros

Security professionals favor open source software about as much as proprietary solutions for IT deployments, a vendor survey suggests.

Speed AJAX Development With ATF

The new AJAX Toolkit Framework promises a comprehensive open source solution for JavaScript-based development of data-intensive, Web-based business apps.

DataDirect Rolls Out Enterprise MySQL Drivers

New driver products facilitate enterprise database deployment and application development.

Zend To Integrate Its PHP IDE With Eclipse

In other news from the company's annual event, Zend announced collaborative agreements with Microsoft, IBM and Oracle.

Microsoft Takes Step Toward Opening .NET 3.5 Framework

Announcement falls short of open source as developers cannot modify or distribute the source code.

MIT Forms Kerberos Consortium

Group aims to foster a universal single sign-on security mechanism that will be available as an open source resource.