'With business down and customers leaving, we had more than a few choices at our disposal. We were invited by one company to sue the beneficiaries of open source. We declined. We could join another and sue our customers. That seemed suicidal. We were offered the cho...

Interface21, the open source Java Spring start-up, has fetched $10 million in Series A financing from Benchmark Capital. The money is earmarked for product development, sales and marketing, and fleshing out its support infrastructure. Benchmark has been an investo...

The GlassFish V2 Beta adds all the enterprise features from Sun's Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition, such as clustering, administration, Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) and load balancing to support highly scalable, volume enterpris...

Well, there's a thing called JavaFX Script coming, previewed by Sun at JavaOne this week and described as a 'radically simple' scripting language for creating rich content and applications for Java devices like mobile phones, Blu-ray disc players and browsers, all...

'There have been a number of language coming up lately,' noted James Gosling today at Sun's World Wide Education & Research Conference in New York City. 'PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems but they are scripting languages and get their power through specializ...

Ericsson has signed up to co-develop and then license an open source Java-based multimedia application server from Sun and contribute parts of it to the open source GlassFish project. It's also supposed to license the Java System Application Server to embed in sol...

'Could have Java been open sourced earlier?' Calvin Austin asks himself this week, in his blog. 'Yes,' he answers, '[but] Sun kept many communities involved including the Java champions which I have to give them full credit for.' All in all, he concludes, 'This is a great week.'

At JavaOne, it released a fully buildable JDK for Java SE to the OpenJDK community under the current GPL 2, remarking that it was delivering on its promise in under a year and pointing out that it was one of the largest source code contributions ever made. It didn...

Sun has opened a new initiative in support of OpenID, the decentralized, web-friendly single sign-on mechanism used across different web sites. OpenID is currently limited to facilitating low-risk transactions like blog comments. Sun wants to explore ways of t...

Sun has released Java Real-Time System 2.0, which pairs the Java extension with Solaris 10 for creating deterministic systems. RTS helps developers set process priorities according to their importance, something not typically supported by Java apps.

The JCP Program Management Office has announced the winners of the 5th JCP Program Annual Awards. The awards ceremony took place at the Community Event organized by the JCP at the JavaOne Conference.

Through the WebRenderer Swing Edition, the rendering quality of Mozilla is paired with the lightweight drawing of Swing including support for Java Look and Feels (L&F), Swing dialogs and all Swing components. The WebRenderer Swing Edition architecture provides s...

Parasoft announced the availability of Parasoft Jtest 8.1 at JavaOne, a comprehensive Java testing solution for development teams building Java EE, SOA, Web, and other Java applications. The new release features enhancements that facilitate the building of more ...

The Java Community Process (JCP) Program Management Office and the Executive Committees, have announced the nominations for the 2007 JCP Program Annual Awards. The Executive Committees (EC) selected members, specifications leads and Java Specifications Requests ...

InterSystems Corporation announced that its Ensemble rapid integration software ranked number one for interface engines in the survey of healthcare enterprises conducted annually by KLAS Enterprises LLC, a leader in healthcare technology research. The awards were ...

Sun, one of the walking wounded, earned $67 million, two cents a share, on revenues up 3.3% to $3.283 billion in the March quarter. It lost $217 million this time last year. This is the second time in a row it managed to squeak out a small profit after five quarte...

Sun Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps outlined his commitment to 'free and open source software' during an exclusive interview with two of SYS-CON Media's publications. Phipps made his comments in the run-up to the JavaOne 2007 event, which has taken an aggre...

Sun Supports GNU/Linux Community by Distributing a Complete Java Stack, Including NetBeans, Packaged for Ubuntu 7.04 will be available in the Multiverse component of the Ubuntu repository on April 19. These technologies will be available for Ubuntu users to instal...

DataArt, a high-end software outsourcing company, announced expansion of its development facilities with the opening of a new R&D center at the University of Kherson, in the southern Ukraine. The company's third development facility will handle projects in all c...

'At the end of 2005, we believed wage growth would continue to be strong into 2006. It's evident from this data that this trend continues unabated in 2007,' says Jim Lanzalotto, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Yoh. 'The technology sector continues to ...

'Membership in The Green Grid reflects the commitment of Azul and other leading IT organizations to develop and promote energy-efficient technologies and processes that will enable continued progress while minimizing and even reversing damage to our planet,' sai...

'The filmless PACS system gives our physicians and caregivers the ability to access patient information no matter where they are,' said Paula Smith, chief information officer at OHI. 'They no longer have to go over to the Radiology Department to request the film; ...

The pack will be bundled into the Sun Java Application Platform SDK Suite update 3 preview which includes the GlassFish V2 Beta, available for download today. Available with a NetBeans plug-in, the Web Developer Pack enables developers to easily and rapidly deploy...

Blu-ray Disc and Cable Day attendees will also gain admission to Thursday evening's JavaOne conference After Dark event and Friday morning's General Session with James Gosling, vice president and Sun Fellow. More information on Blu-ray Disc and Cable Day can be fo...

Farata Systems has announced a strategic partnership with Midnight Coders to offer Web reporting and data-bound components and services that can be used in Flex, Flash and Ajax-based rich Internet applications. 'This partnership is an important step in improving p...

You can probably guess from my background and earlier writings that I'll be advocating that Solaris needs to close the usability gap with Linux to be competitive; that while as I believe Solaris needs to change in some ways, I also believe deeply in the importance...

Sun is going to reprise its standalone Microelectronics unit - the one that was melded into its server operation when the wolf came knocking on Sun's door - in the expectation of selling some Sparcs outside the company, something it tried once before and then trie...

Remember JOnAS, the European consortium-backed open source J2EE-based application server that had Red Hat's backing there for a while until Red Hat up and bought JBoss? Well, sans Red Hat, JOnAS 4.8, the first enterprise edition, has just been released, promisin...

An analysis of open source Java code has just been released by Fortify Software, looking at four well-known Java packages: Hibernate, Spring, Struts and Tomcat. The good news, says the report, is that these packages are by and large safe. The bad news: developers ar...

MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider ofgeographic intelligence solutions, today announced support for KML (KeyholeMarkup Language) for MetaCarta Geographic Text Search (GTS) and MetaCartageOdrive. For the first time, companies and governments can now searchunst...

The OSGi Alliance announced it has released the mobile specification for OSGi Service Platform Release 4 (R4). This specification received final approval from the Java Community Process as the specification for JSR 232 'Mobile Operational Management.'

JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence, has launched iReport Plug-in for Eclipse, a graphical report designer that lets developers using Eclipse quickly add sophisticated reports to their applications. JasperSoft's new Eclip...

Infragistics, the world's largest publisher of reusable presentation layer development tools for Microsoft .NET and Java platforms, announces that Jonathan Cohen has joined Infragistics as Vice President of Marketing & Product Management. Jonathan will drive key s...

Sun Microsystems announced a beta release of GlassFish V2, which is based on Java EE 5. Sun will also a release the Sun Web Developer Pack, the toolkit that enables development of RIA with Java. Sun wil make these two announcements at the AJAXWorld Conference & Ex...

Chariot's team of Java architects includes some of the best and brightest J2EE experts in the region, the company says. They are authors (books, white papers, articles, etc.) and frequent speakers at the international JavaOne convention and regional Java User Groups.

DataSynapse has announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with enterprise infrastructure software leader BEA Systems Inc. The agreement allows DataSynapse to embed BEA WebLogic Server into its FabricServer software, which is designed to enable J...

Pop quiz: what company both doubled its annual revenue in 2006 and closed a $26.25 million round of funding? Clue: it also tracked 290,000 downloads of its RIA platform and lined up IBM, Walmart.com, H&R Block, Monster, Barclays Global and Pandora as customers. Ex...

Zend Technologies has announced the general availability of Zend Studio 5.5. This new product strengthens Zend Studio?s position as the leading Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for professional PHP developers, with new capabilities for enhanced integration...

Canoo has just released UltraLightClient (ULC) Mobile, aimed at facilitating development of Enterprise Web 2.0 applications with a desktop user experience that will run on both Java SE and Java ME clients.

James Gosling has just been named as a member of the Order of Canada, which recognizes 'outstanding lifetime achievement and contributions to society and the country' by Canadians from all walks of life.