BI vendors say there's been little demand for versions of their software designed to run on Linux or other open-source operating systems. That could change this year, says Mark Madsen, a consultant, who notes there are quite a few open-source BI projects of note.
Yesterday, Sun Microsystems released its beta Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6).
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HP has signed a new open-source bundling license agreement with Novell to offer HP customers a bundled Linux solution based on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and that is certified to run on HP's ProLiant servers and BladeSystem technologies.
Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community said yesterday that NetBeans IDE is available for download.
Unify has released Unify NXJ Composer, designed to give Lotus Notes developers the ability to build Lotus Notes-like applications in J2EE without having to code by hand.
JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 5.1, the latest version of its Java IDE.
BEA Systems is announcing the latest version of its Eclipse-based BEA Workshop Studio.
AccuRev's latest release of its software configuration management product AccuRev 4.0 promises enterprise integration, replication, usability and performance enhancements for teams performing complex, parallel and geographically distributed development.
Last week, Big Blue announced a new z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) for its flagship mainframe systems.
Yesterday, Nokia said it will release the source code for its Python for S60 Platform onSourceForget.net into the hands of open-source software developers.
Open-source solution provider Covalent Technologies will offer full commercial support for Apache Geronimo 1.0, an open-source J2EE application server developed and recently made available by the Apache Software Foundation and distributed under the Apache license.
LogicLibrary has announced its flagship Logidex solution now integrates with Eclipse's Business Intelligence and Reporting Toolkit (BIRT).
On Monday, the Eclipse Foundation released version 2.0 of its Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project.