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The server and software company comes full circle with Java, releasing a scripting language to ease desktop and device Java development.
Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to create a brand-new programming language called Fortress.
A day after Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said open-source software is his company's friend, a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy has called upon the server maker to open the code of Java.
As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly.
The release of IBM's free DB2 database points to the downward price pressure from open-source programmers' tools.
Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering.
Databases have been available with an open-source licence for many years. But the past few months have seen a growing number of partnerships and products aimed at maturing the industry of add-ons and support services -- vital to winning over corporate customers.
Novell has a new lease on life, thanks to several recent acquisitions and their new J2EE-compliant server offering. Find out why you should check out Novell's upcoming Nakoma release.
The latest version of this Linux-based office suite has a lot of ground to cover before it can catch up with the de facto corporate standard, Microsoft Office.
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