Oracle said it will participate in Grails, an open-source project that seeks to make Java programmers more productive through a close tie-in to the Groovy scripting language.
Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison announced the company's first prominent Linux customer Tuesday: Yahoo. But Red Hat hasn't been pushed aside at the Internet company.
A wave of consolidation is sweeping the IT industry, and many open source business applications will be left behind when customers pare down their suppliers, an SAP executive predicted on Wednesday.
Linux, having just won the fight for mainstream respectability, has moved to a challenge that's less glamorous but just as important: making itself attractive to the information technology industry.
Add Sun's Java server software suite to the company's list of open-source candidates.
Purchase of a company with close ties to open-source rival MySQL has people wondering about the database giant's motives.
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Software consortium Eclipse will launch a new set of tools next year, which will incorporate the latest Java specification code-named Tiger.
IBM's Bob Sutor tells why service-oriented architecture is crucial to Web services development.
The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up.
Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.
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