With Major League Baseball’s fan base more interactive than ever, following two leagues, six divisions, 30 teams and a countless combination of statistics ranging from RBIs to ERAs, MLB.com is one biz calling a new data warehouse appliance a homerun.
The final release of open-source AJAX4jsf framework 1.0 is now available. The project extends the benefits of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) functionality to component framework JavaServer Faces (JSF), which supports UI development for J2EE applications.
An open-source Java project has opened up to Excel. Now developers using the Mondrian OLAP can apply the Microsoft app and receive support options under the project’s new spreadsheet services.
The MyEclipse 5.0 open-source IDE, released Friday, is an enterprise Java, database, RAD, UML, POJO, AJAX, and rich-client development environment certified on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Last week Google launched an open-source project hosting service for professional software developers as part of its Google Code offerings.
A three-way collaboration has enabled FileMaker to roll out the first public beta preview of a new Application Programming Interface (API) for the popular PHP open-source scripting language.
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.