News Analysis: Nothing less than Java’s status as an open-source technology is at stake in an Oracle lawsuit against Google for the use of Java on the Android mobile OS platform. – Oracle has long held a unique
position in Californias Silicon Valley. It is to some the most reviled
company in the valley. The lawsuit against Google for its use of Java
technology in its Android smartphone software is just the latest
example of Oracle’s determination to crush any company it be…
At this year’s edition of its annual conference for Web designers and developers known as MIX, Microsoft offered up a slew of new technologies, starting with a new preview of the next version of its browser the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview. In addition, Microsoft delivered new tools for Windows Phone 7 Series application development, as well as new design tools and open-source technology for developers. This slide show illustrates some of the top technology made available at the MIX 2010, also known as MIX10.
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At the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O’Reilly predicts that Microsoft will emerge as a leading proponent of the open Web, despite the company’s tradition of fostering its own proprietary operating systems and development languages. O’Reilly says Microsoft’s recent deals to index Twitter tweets and use Wolfram Alpha’s APIs for computational data show a shift in its willingness to work with other Web companies. Moreover, the Windows Azure cloud computing operating system is designed to work with open-source technology.
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publisher Tim O’Reilly has predicted that Microsoft will emerge as a leading
proponent of the open Web, a statement that must seem highly unlikely to a
computing world accustomed to Microsoft’s love of fostering its own proprietary
operating systems and development languages.
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Many of the Webs busiest and most popular Websites, including Facebook and Twitter, have one thing in common that enables the sites to scale out to millions of users without a significant impact on performance: Memcached. Gear6 hopes its distribution of Memcached takes off for enterprise developers. Mark Atwood, Gear6s new Director of Community Development, talks to eWEEK about capitalizing on the open source technology.
– Many of the Webs busiest and most popular Websites, including
Facebook and Twitter, have one thing in common that enables the sites
to scale out to millions of users without a significant impact on
performance: Memcached.
First introduced by Djanga Interactive almost six years ago to scale out L…
Eucalyptus Systems, a startup that developed software that enables businesses to create an internal cloud computing environment that’s compatible with Amazon’s EC2, is releasing its first commercial product, the Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition. EEE leverages VMware virtualization technology, including vSphere and ESX, to give businesses more options in transforming their virtualized data centers into on-premises compute clouds.
– Startup vendor Eucalyptus Systems, which has made a name for itself with
open-source technology that enables enterprises to build an internal cloud
computing environment that is compatible with Amazons EC2 public cloud
offering, is launching its first commercial product that supports VMwares
vir…
The Magento Ecommerce Platform has amalgamated the flexibility of open-source technology with the important features of industry to deliver exceptional control over online store operation to get the online sales flourishing.
