Microsoft kicked off the week with two more virtualization moves: The Redmond software maker completed its acquisition of Softricity, a provider of app virtualization and streaming technologies; and disclosed plans to begin working with open-source virtualization vendor XenSource.
zLinux or Big Iron J2EE workloads perform better and are cheaper than their RISC- or Intel-based alternatives
Promising speed, new language features and upgrades, Python is just weeks away from releasing the final version of its 2.5 software.
IBM released Lotus Notes for Linux, marking the first time IBM has supported biz-grade e-mail, group scheduling and other Notes apps on the open desktop system.
Managing your own Web apps just got easier. An upgrade to a free, multilingual Java Content Management System (CMS), with a full-text search engine, now provides customized questionnaires, visitor statistics and topic-based forums.
The cost of distributed complexity—which is also measured in air conditioned BTUs and kilowatts per hour—is about to get even more expensive
IBM’s Lotus Software division has dusted off its enterprise instant messaging client and re-architected it using the Eclipse open-source platform.
The most talked about and widely used integrated development environments are not the most popular among coders, the results of a recent survey suggest.
Microsoft, long the bastion of the closed source code model, has launched CodePlex, a collaborative software development portal.
Reusable code, dev speed and low cost are often cited when enterprises opt for open source tools over their commercial counterparts. Support and maintenance are not.
Designed specifically for enterprise Web 2.0 app dev, ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 hit the market this week, bringing Web 2.0 LAMP technology to Java servers like Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM Websphere, Sun Java System Application Server and JBOSS.
The Eclipse Foundation is making history this week with the Callisto Simultaneous Release initiative, which coordinates 10 Eclipse project upgrades, including BI and reporting tools, a modeling framework, a Web tools platform, test and performance tools, integrated development environments, and the latest version of the Eclipse tooling framework.
The latest version of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distro, launched on June 1, was designed specifically with large organizations in mind, says the open-source project's founder.
Open sourcing Java was the buzz at JavaOne, and discussions among attendees influenced part of the 2006 Java Technology Roundtable. Find out the experts' views on the state of Java.
Headline-grabbing news at the 11th annual JavaOne developer conference, which wrapped up on Friday, was CEO Jonathan Schwartz's announcement that Sun Microsystems would release its industry-standard Java programming language under an open-source license—eventually.
Another attention grabber was Sun's new Operating System Distributor's License for Java that allows Linux and OpenSolaris distros to repackage JDK binary bits as appropriate for those open-source operating system platforms.