Open Source

  • submit to reddit

The Coming of Java EE Extensions in JSR-299

Final approval voting for the Java Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform (aka JSR-299 and CDI) will finish today and the results will be...

3 replies - 10697 views - 11/30/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/30

Two anonymous sources "with knowledge of the matter" told Reuters that Oracle asked for a hearing with the European Commission, which will take place...

0 replies - 13458 views - 11/30/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

US Senators Give Ellison a Hand

59 US Senators signed a request this week asking the European Commission to expedite its investigation of the Oracle-Sun deal.  The letter was addressed to...

3 replies - 5212 views - 11/26/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

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 - 14638 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/11

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 - 10772 views - 11/11/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

EU Rejects Snoracle - Larry Vows to Fight!

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 - 6270 views - 11/10/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

SAP CTO Calls For Java Freedom

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 - 6421 views - 11/10/09 by James Sugrue in News

Apache President Reflects on the Last 10 Years

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 - 5772 views - 11/09/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Has the Motorola Droid 'Force' Hit You?

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 - 11881 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

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 - 14809 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29

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 - 12115 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Could the EU Block the Oracle-Sun Deal?

This week the European Commission expressed its displeasure with Oracle's lack of cooperation in the antitrust probe surrounding the Sun acquisition. ...

3 replies - 6469 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

IntelliJ IDEA Goes Open Source

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...

17 replies - 21442 views - 10/15/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

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...

15 replies - 18588 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Oracle Taunts IBM with $10M Challenge

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 - 14196 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News