In November 2001, IBM open sourced an internal project focused on creating a common component framework for developers -- and open source Eclipse was born.
Neo Technology brought the Neo4j open-source NoSQL graph database to the Spring framework this week with the launch of Spring Data Neo4j 2.0.
Rackspace has announced the birth of an independent foundation that will assume ownership and governance for the open source cloud platform, OpenStack.
Piston Computing announced this week a hardened operating system based on the open source OpenStack project for private enterprise clouds
Engine Yard, a provider of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for Ruby on Rails, now supports JRuby applications on its cloud platform, the company announced Wednesday.
Terracotta today launched a release candidate of version 3.6 of its namesake in-memory software with upgraded versions of both its BigMemory and Ehcache technologies.
Rackspace announced plans this week to deploy the OpenStack open source cloud platform across its entire infrastructure.
Another family of Java components will soon be available from the open source Maven Central Repository.
Red Hat announced today that its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment now supports Java Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6).
Two Microsoft executives are contesting earlier complaints by Google over patents relating to the Android mobile OS.
JetBrains has introduced a new JVM-targeted programming language, code-named "Kotlin."
Attachmate, the company that acquired Novell earlier this year and then laid off virtually all members of the company's Mono team, is now partnering with Xamarin, the startup created by members of that team to continue commercial support of the Mono Project.
Yesterday Microsoft inked a deal with General Dynamics Itronix, a Sunrise, Fla.-based maker of sturdy computers for the public service, military, industrial market and public sectors.
A vote was put to the members of the Apache Software Foundation last week to accept Oracle's source code contribution to Openoffice.org.
Commercial open-source middleware maker Talend has taken its recently announced Unified Integration Platform into the cloud.