Numerous software suppliers last week took the wraps off new Eclipse-based tools, and a few were brought to cloud-based services.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/30/2009
The evolution of IDEs is not keeping pace with hardware advances and significant trends like cloud computing, according to two unlikely bedfellows: the lead developers for IBM's Eclipse tools team and Microsoft's Visual Studio organization.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/30/2009
Sopera, creators of the Swordfish SOA runtime framework, this week plans to announce that Swordfish has officially become part of the Eclipse platform
- By John K. Waters
- 03/23/2009
Red Hat Software has released the first major update to its Eclipse-based developer toolset.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/23/2009
The future of the Eclipse platform will take center stage this week as open source and Java developers gather for the sixth annual EclipseCon 2009 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. where organizers will reveal the progress of Eclipse 4.0 and the Jetty Project.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/23/2009
To help developers identify mechanisms that lead to system crashes or have other security implications, Microsoft will unveil its !exploitable (pronounced "bang exploitable") Crash Analyzer on Friday at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/20/2009
Reports on Wednesday that IBM is in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems drew mixed views as to what Big Blue would gain from absorbing the struggling supplier of servers, open source software and Java.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/18/2009
The United Kingdom is the latest government to express support for the OpenDocument Format standard, which competes with Microsoft's Extensible Markup Language-based format.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 02/26/2009
A new report from IDC, announced on Wednesday, suggested that the global economic malaise has already chipped away at the enterprise IT server market.
On Monday open-source middleware maker WSO2 unveiled a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework built on the OSGi specification.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/10/2009
The Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) today posted an open letter to President Barack Obama on open source software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/10/2009
After months of mounting dissatisfaction with the way Sun Microsystems was evolving the MySQL database, the founders of the popular open source vendor have decided to move on.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/06/2009
The source code for Microsoft's Web Sandbox is now available under an open license.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/03/2009
Defense Department officials have launched a new Web site where developers can work on open source software projects specifically for DOD.
Microsoft’s Powerset acquisition brings the first open source code into a Microsoft product.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/01/2009