Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence. That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open...
1 replies - 1887 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Google has until the end of the week to revise its book deal with the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers. A judge extended the deadline...
0 replies - 2127 views - 11/11/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Oracle and the EU are escalating their legal battle over the Sun acquisition. The EU took the first step towards blocking the merger Monday with a formal...
6 replies - 2567 views - 11/10/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Vishal Sikka, CTO at SAP has made a call for Java to be opened up for the community in his latest blog entry. Having incorporated Java into their NetWeaver...
9 replies - 2121 views - 11/10/09 by James Sugrue in News
Apache's ten year anniversary celebrations wrapped up last week at ApacheCon 2009. DZone recently got the chance to speak with Justin Erenkrantz, the...
1 replies - 1765 views - 11/09/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
The buzz surrounding Motorola's Droid, one of the most anticipated handsets to date, reached a deafening peak today. In an effort to compete with the iPhone,...
5 replies - 3366 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company. It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition...
0 replies - 3527 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The US Department of Defence released a memo saying that they allow and encourage the use of open source software. It took them six years to clarify this...
0 replies - 2966 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
This week the European Commission expressed its displeasure with Oracle's lack of cooperation in the antitrust probe surrounding the Sun acquisition. ...
3 replies - 2151 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
JetBrains has just announced that its upcoming version of IntelliJ IDEA, a Java-based platform and IDE, will be available in a free and open source edition...
14 replies - 6628 views - 10/15/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday. Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader,
has been...
12 replies - 7235 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
In the keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld this week, CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison fired back against rumors (that he believes were spread by IBM) about the...
1 replies - 4278 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Scala has made a name for itself recently with the announcement in April that Twitter was in the process of converting their back-end from Ruby to Scala. The...
0 replies - 2848 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The open source Java Application server, Jetty, has released its 7.0 version this week and continues to grow in usage. 2009 has been an eventful year for...
6 replies - 5775 views - 10/09/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
One of the strengths of the Java ecosystem is the huge number of
open source libraries that are available. There are often several
alternatives when you need...
8 replies - 3083 views - 07/30/09 by Dan Dyer in Articles
