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,...
3 replies - 943 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 - 2530 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 - 2274 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 - 1928 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 - 6281 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 - 6654 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 - 4002 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 - 2581 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 - 5458 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 - 3026 views - 07/30/09 by Dan Dyer in Articles
A few years back, I read a very interesting article (that I can’t find anymore) by John Newton, the CEO of Alfresco, explaining how Open Source changed their...
9 replies - 2781 views - 07/28/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in Articles
Here is a crazy idea after all the discussions about "The future of open source": The $5-Ware License. We grab an Apache License 2.0 and add this one...
24 replies - 4385 views - 04/23/09 by Jakob Jenkov in News
I have been reading through (and thinking about) this article on "the future of open source", I considered adding a couple of thoughts both personal...
21 replies - 4015 views - 04/23/09 by Kristian Rink in Articles
Sun purchasing by Oracle has worried many people about the future of Sun’s open source products, one of the most important stack of open source software in...
38 replies - 6877 views - 04/22/09 by Jose Maria Arranz in Articles
License proliferation
has been a hot topic amongst the open source community for the past
couple of years.
3 replies - 2140 views - 04/17/09 by Mike Milinkovich in Articles
