Novell has finally found a buyer for every sector of its business this week. While many speculated that VMware was going to take the SUSE Linux division of...
0 replies - 22140 views - 11/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Vijay Rajagopalan examines some of the new interoperability support from Microsoft which allows PHP
developers to use the Eclipse IDE to develop for and...
0 replies - 10549 views - 10/15/10 by Nitin Bharti in Uncategorized
Six months after the 2.7 release of the Low-Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure, the 2.8 version is now available. The previous version of the...
0 replies - 17005 views - 10/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
In an investors meeting this week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told the board, "You’re going to see us buying chip companies." There's speculation...
0 replies - 16098 views - 09/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Before the official announcement went out, the final version of PostgreSQL was released this weekend. If you browsed the PostgreSQL FTP server you could find...
0 replies - 19897 views - 09/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The first beta of the Virgo Web Server (formerly the Spring dm Server) is getting very close now that the Eclipse Foundation released the fourth milestone...
0 replies - 18622 views - 09/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The W3C is working to formalize a language of emotional states for computers. This would include more complex emoticons for human-to-human interaction as...
0 replies - 20369 views - 08/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
In a recent blog entry, Adobe's open source and standards director David McAllister remarked that “the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or...
0 replies - 22165 views - 08/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Several reports are saying that the Chrome operating system will be here by the end of November. That's because on November 26th, Google plans to release a...
0 replies - 24088 views - 08/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Sure, maybe you didn't find a use for Google Wave, but a core group of loyal users sure did. These users are now fighting to keep Google Wave from being shut...
0 replies - 17131 views - 08/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Since the last beta, Ruby on Rails 3.0 has had over 842 commits by 125 developers. That's the level of polish you can expect when you download the first...
0 replies - 15473 views - 07/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The newly released Lightspark 0.4.2 is another alternative implementation of the Flash Player (others include Smokescreen and Gordon) that is designed to be...
1 replies - 13196 views - 07/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The first release candidate for Ruby 1.9.2 was released this week and it passes 99% of the RubySpec tests. It's mostly compatible with version 1.9.1 and it...
0 replies - 13613 views - 07/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Simon Phipps acknowledged some of the "stone throwing" aimed at the Open Source Initiative. Some of the criticism, he said, was not without...
2 replies - 11841 views - 06/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
An official Google message posted by a non-Google party revealed a thin client functionality called Chromoting (unofficially). Chromoting will be built into...
0 replies - 13436 views - 06/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
