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Eclipse launches super run-time project as alternative to Java and .NET

The Eclipse organization has amassed a huge installed base of developers using its Java-based open source development tools. Now the organization has set its sights on the run-time arena and will take on Sun's Java and Microsoft's .NET with what it says is an agnostic open source component model that...

Tags: Microsoft .NET, Java, Eclipse, Eclipse Organization, Equinox, Run-time, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-17

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Microsoft partners to allow Eclipse interop on Win7, WinServer 2008 R2, Azure

Eclipse should decline the 'plug ins'M$ only ries to extend and extinguish here folks!Self interests always......Isn't that what most things revolve around? I'm sure that if Linux had a chance to extend and draw to its platform by working with Microsoft it would, unless they are too stupid to...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Eclipse, Linux, Mircosoft, Azure, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Sex, Rock and Roll, and Open Source Reporting Frameworks

Actuate 10 and the Eclipse-based Open Source BIRT framework allows you to build rich reporting applications for your enterprise. Click on the photo to watch a video of the software in action. The title got your attention, didn't it? ...

Tags: Reporting Tool, Actuate Corp., Open Source BIRT, Business Intelligence, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Nokia Symbian deal winners and losers

After an expansion phase that saw the introduction of the iPhone, Android, LiMo, and JavaFX Mobile, the mobile phone platform landscape is shrinking again. Nokia today announced it plans to spend $410 million to acquire the pieces of Symbian Ltd. that it doesn't already own, and...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc., Eclipse, Android, Eclipse Public License, Eclipse Foundation, Open Source, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Ingres brings OpenROAD tool for rapid DB apps development to GPL

Ingres Corp. is hoping for strong community involvement with its Open ROAD rapid application development RAD tool by taking it to GPL v2 release. The Redwood City, Calif., open source database management company has made the new release available on its Web site and said it...

Tags: GPL, Tool, Ingres, 4GL OpenROAD, OpenROAD Application, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Dion Hinchcliffe, Itasca, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, Mashup, Mashup Exchange, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Serena, SnapLogic, Web

Blog posts 2008-05-15

UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis

The UK Identity & Passport Service IPS has released an excellent post-implementation assessment report describing lessons learned from five key 2007 projects. In an unusually transparent move for any government agency, the report candidly examines each project's objectives, deliverables, and areas for improvement. ...

Tags: Project, Procurement, Analysis, IPS, Purchasing & Procurement, Government, Business Operations, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Still ranting about interfaces

Still ranting about interfaces[b]Mr. Murphy, You are such an idiot...[b]The real reason WordPerfect lost is simple.[b]WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get [/b]You are such a biased moron that you can't get your ego out of the way to see the truth. WordPerfect lost the battle because...

Tags: Word processors, Corel WordPerfect, software

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Eclipse co-founder Skip McGaughey on Open Health mission

Skip McGaughey, who was the original co-chair of the Eclipse Foundation while at IBM, has a new mission, to bring that same open source collaboration to health care. McGaughey, who has been based in Asheville, NC since launching Eclipse, is the first head of the Open Health...

Tags: Health Care, Eclipse, Standards, McGaughey, OHT, Kestrel, Terminology People, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Is RF exposure from Wi-Fi routers hazardous to your health?

Is RF exposure from Wi-Fi routers hazardous to your health?I don't know...Naturopaths and others think there is a link. The same debate could be said about high tention power lines too. I don't know if we will ever know the truth.All Frequencies are not equalThe whole issue is resonance... wine...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Vertical industries, radiation, Wi-Fi, health care, Wi-Fi router, RF exposure, TV, phone, radio, router, cell phone

Discussion threads 2008-01-25

Don't want to swim with the SOA sharks? Here's another SOA 'fish'

If you prefer not to swim with the SOA sharks, then the less treacherous open-source variety of aquatic creature may be for you. The latest open-source integration platform to consider is something called Swordfish, details of which were covered in this report in InfoWorld. ...

Tags: SOA, Swordfish, General Availability, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-01-03

The best open source development model

The best open source development modelNice post, but first paragraph is wrong.. I never worked at Sun....Hi Dana, nice post, but I never worked for Sun so I think the starting paragraph sets the wrong point of view...But Palamida isn't a projectI can only assume that Palamida was mentioned in...

Tags: Java development tools, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., Eclipse, open source, IBM Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2007-12-11

OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'

When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...

Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Software AG and Cognos bring BI and BPM into common orbit

The much-discussed marriage of business intelligence BI and business process management BPM may be a step closer to the altar with last week's announcement by Software AG that it will embed Cognos 8 BI with the webMethods product suite. ...

Tags: Cognos Inc., BPM, Software AG, Layer 7 Technologies Inc., Natural 2006, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Databases, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Business Operations, It Operations, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-11-11

A second open source competitor in health IT

A second open source competitor in health ITThe Pipe and Mirth[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL7]HL7[/url] is 'the pipe'.No two systems/vendor solutions manage HL7 exactly in the same way. Most are, in fact, custom tooled at the health care site level, taking hundreds of man-hour time to develop and fine-tune, sometimes with the unavoidable result...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Programming languages, Misys, health care, open source

Discussion threads 2007-10-30

Polarion blinks in struggle over Subversion

Polarion Software is donating the subversion.com domain name to the Subversion Corporation, a non-profit stewardship organization created to support the development of Subversion. Subversion is a popular open source version control package widely seen as the successor to CVS. The announcement will be made at the SubConf 2007 conference in...

Tags: Eclipse, Domain Name, Plug-in, Polarion, Polarion Software, Subversion Corp., Subversive, SVNKit, Open Source, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-10-16

SAP's cautious Web 2.0 imagineering

I met with Denis Browne, senior vice president of imagineering at SAP Labs. He isn't on loan from Disney, which came up with "imagineering" portmanteau in the 1950's. Browne is tasked with imagining, developing and evangelizing Web 2.0 innovations--social networks, widgets, RSS, blogs, wikis, SMS, virtual worlds, etc.--across various...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Web 2.0, Network, SAP AG, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-23

A bumper crop of new mashup platforms

While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...

Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax

Blog posts 2007-07-23

The crux of the GPL problem

The crux of the GPL problemCapitalism in practice?I don't know, but doesn't the fact that we have multiple parks is capitalism in pratice? Unlike Communist bloc where there is only one pencil manufacturer, we have multiple pencil manufacturers. Isn't the fact that having multiple pencil manufacturer is a waste of...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, compiler, park, GPL, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-06-04

The CDDL example

The CDDL exampleNow, if we could just replace the GPL with this or the FreeBSD licence...then maybe development would extend from the community to the commercial much further with respect to Linux etc.Communism, sorry, socialism never worked in Mother Russia and it sure doesn't do a damn thing for open...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., convergence, CDDL, GPL, LGPL

Discussion threads 2007-05-31