Business Objects recently expanded its partnership with open-source database vendor MySQL by notching a new OEM referral agreement.
Project mangers at Eclipse went live with the Web Tools Platform Project last week.
Sun Microsystems announced NetBeans Profiler Milestone 11, the latest release of its Java app profiler, and an add-on to the upcoming open-source NetBeans IDE release 5.
Open-source software has gone far beyond the Linux operating system.
Business Objects and MySQL announced the signing of a new OEM referral agreement on Monday.
Red Hat said on Tuesday that it has launched a new service to provide certification and production support for open-source software stacks.
For many programmers,
Rational Unified Process conjures up images of suits dashing around carrying three-ring binders bulging with forms, templates and checklists.
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Autodesk announced on Monday it is releasing the code for MapServer Enterprise, the company's new Web mapping platform, as open source. A snapshot of the source code is available through the new MapServer Foundation, an independent non-profit organization with the mission of supporting and promoting open source Web mapping.
Actuate saw a bona fide opportunity last year when it came on board the open-source Eclipse Foundation as a strategic developer. J2EE programmers had long bemoaned the absence of a native Java reporting solution for Eclipse, the world's most popular Java integrated development environment, and Actuate promised to give them just that, with the Business Intelligence Reporting Tool. It now turns out that Actuate's opportunity isn't unique.
Industrial buyers seeking everything from nuts and bolts to sophisticated manufacturing equipment are turning to the Internet nearly twice as often as offline information sources, according to a study of industrial buying and selling behaviors. However, many industrial suppliers do not ensure potential customers can find their sites nor provide the kind of information buyers are seeking, the research indicates.
Mergere gives businesses access to commercially supported open source solutions.
Until recently, middleware for the open-source community meant app servers,
and open-source app servers usually meant JBoss. Today, there are more options.
A group of storage-industry leaders that includes IBM, Cisco Systems, Computer Associates and Sun Microsystems disclosed this week plans to form a new open-source community to build a common platform for managing all brands of storage systems.
Lots of people talk about the growing success of open-source software, says Winston Damarillo, but few recognize that much of that success comes from technical underpinnings that make open source work.