Eclipse News Desk

Thank You, Java Annotation!

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:45:00 EDT

This was an interesting bug… I was working on a Web application, where Adobe Flex client was sending an instance of an ActionScript WrapperObject to the Java server, which was supposed to invoke some JBDC code to run an SQL Insert statement saving the data from the Java version of WrapperObject in the database. I wrote all the pieces of Flex, Java, and SQL and started Tomcat in Eclipse IDE. The Web browser displayed my window, I filled out the form populating the ActionScript WrapperObject and pressed the button Save. Nothing happened. No errors and no data inserted in the database.

McNealy’s Getting Back in the Game

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:00:00 EDT

Scott McNealy, often mistaken for one of Sun’s founders – technically he wasn’t but he was so identified with the company for so long people assume he was – has been hinting about a new start-up called WayIn on Twitter, according to GigaOm. Actually Twitter’s the way WayIn will launch if it sorta hasn’t already. GigaOm says WayIn was registered as an LLC in California by former Sun exec Damien Eastwood in February. LinkedIn identifies Eastwood as having been VP, legal at Sun. GigaOm also says that WayIn told the SEC on June 7 that it had raised $6.39 million and identified Wilson Sonsini, Sun’s old law firm, as WayIn’s counsel. WayIn’s web site merely says “Welcome to WayIn. We're currently being quiet. In the meantime feel free to contact us if you have any questions or apply for a job. For updates on our launch, please follow WayIn or Scott McNealy” on Twitter.

Red Hat Puts Fedoras on IaaS & PaaS

Mon, 09 May 2011 08:00:00 EDT

Red Hat took a flying leap Wednesday and landed with both feet on the cloud where it hopes to knock VMware, which it perceives as its biggest enemy, for a loop. It announced that it’s going into both the Infrastructure-as-a-Service and the Platform-as-a-Service business, pushing past its year-old first-generation Cloud Foundations widgetry. It calls the beta IaaS effort CloudForms and the not-yet-ready-for-prime-time PaaS solution OpenShift. CloudForms is described as a collection of upwards of 60 open source projects that can be used to automate the creation of private and hybrid clouds and – thanks to built-in ALM – manage multi-tier applications across multiple clouds, virtualization platforms and heterogeneous physical servers because the widgetry exploits Red Hat’s Deltacloud APIs. It supports Amazon, IBM and NTT Communications clouds along with Red Hat and VMware virtualization.

Early Bird Registration Savings for Cloud Expo New York to Expire Friday

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:45:00 EDT

Cloud Expo New York, June 6-9, 2011 early bird registration will expire on Friday. Register now for a Gold Pass for the 8th International Cloud Expo on June 6–9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City and save $500 on your full conference pass. Gold Pass Delegates will receive full conference access for four days to all conference sessions at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo as well as the Virtualization Conference & Expo June 6-9. Gold Pass registration includes: lunch on Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Welcome Reception on Day 1, and refreshment breaks, collectible conference bag and access to all conference sessions including all technical sessions, the exhibit floor, keynotes, vendor technology presentations, Cloud Computing Bootcamp and SYS-CON.TV Power Panels.

Uncle Who Kidnapped Sofia to Syria Still a Practicing MD in Chicago

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:15:00 EDT

More than a year ago, Sofia was abducted from her home in Lighthouse Point, Florida, by her Syrian National uncle, who is practicing medicine in the Chicago area. Last March, a Florida judge issued an order to pick Sofia up from the uncle's house in Chicago and return her to her home to Florida. Due to a jurisdiction question in court - since Sofia had never lived more than 6 months in one state at the time of her abduction - the judge later gave temporary custody to her mom until the court could determine final jurisdiction between Florida, New Jersey, and Illinois. In July 2010, based on this uncle's instructions, Sofia was abducted by her mom to Syria where she has been missing her life-saving medical treatment. Sofia's Syrian National uncle is still practicing medicine in the Chicago area. As I explained repeatedly in multiple blog posts since her abduction more than six months ago, she needs urgent daily therapy, which was initially scheduled until the age of three. I strongly believe that the MD uncle's "physician license" in the United States should be revoked immediately due to his abduction of Sofia from her home in March, 2010, as he has endangered Sofia's life. The Syrian doctor should also be deported from the United States for his actions against humanity, as he doesn't care about his two-year-old niece Sofia. I will discuss the details of this situation on national morning TV shows, which will air in the United States.

Building COBOL Applications within VS2010

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:15:00 EDT

See what excited the COBOL world this January. Watch the launch video and see Visual COBOL in action. The demo shows how to build COBOL applications within VS2010, and Eclipse IDEs integrating with .NET and other UI technologies… and much more, including COBOL applications running on an Android phone!

COBOL: No Barriers - The Story of Visual COBOL R3

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:00:00 EDT

COBOL has evolved and is breaking free. Visual COBOL R3 gives you FREEDOM, CHOICE and MORE: FREEDOM to deploy wherever you want, JVM, .NET, AZURE, CHOICE of development environment, VS2010 or Eclipse and MORE COBOL language enhancements to deliver MORE productivity, faster. Read the Visual COBOL R3 brochure to learn more about COBOL: NO BARRIERS.

A Rich Desktop Development Environment Based on the Eclipse IDE

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:00:00 EDT

Micro Focus Visual COBOL delivers the richest development experience for COBOL programmers available on Windows and Linux. Using the Eclipse rich client platform as an integrated development environment (IDE), the needs of the COBOL programmer are the primary focus. In parallel, the enhancements to the COBOL language make it even easier to use to build modern object-oriented applications. The Visual COBOL Development Hub and Visual COBOL for Eclipse solve these problems by providing a rich desktop development environment based on the Eclipse IDE with high-performance server-based tools for managing builds, source code access and debugger engine.

Micro Focus Visual COBOL for Eclipse

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:00:00 EDT

Micro Focus COBOL for JVM introduces a unique, high-performance COBOL environment for developing COBOL applications to be deployed in a Java framework such as the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or a Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) application server. In addition to using Visual COBOL for Eclipse for applications deployed as native code, it’s also the IDE for developing COBOL JVM applications with debugging support for both traditional or object-oriented COBOL applications for the JVM. Visual COBOL for Eclipse also includes enhanced compatibility with extend making it easier for many existing extend applications to be migrated to Visual COBOL.

Tasktop and SmartBear Partner to Unite Peer Code Review for Eclipse

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:55:52 EST

Tasktop Technologies, creators of the Eclipse Mylyn project and a provider of Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, and SmartBear Software on Wednesday announced the Eclipse Mylyn Connector for SmartBear CodeCollaborator. Available in Tasktop Enterprise, the new connector brings task-focused interface technology to code reviews managed in CodeCollaborator, making code reviews a regular part of Eclipse-based development activities. The integrated Tasktop and CodeCollaborator offering helps development teams develop higher quality software that is delivered to market faster and more efficiently. “This latest Tasktop Enterprise connector is the result of our collaboration with SmartBear and a joint enterprise customer who needed to improve developer productivity by taking advantage of the task-focused interface to get the most out of the code review process,” said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and founder of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. “Many organizations deploying Agile practices will find the task management and automated knowledge capture provided by Tasktop to be a developer-friendly on-ramp to SmartBear’s leading code review tool.”

Cloud Expo, Inc. Announces Cloud Expo 2011 New York Venue

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:45:00 EST

Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-focused event and is held in New York, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong-Kong. Over 600 corporate sponsors and more than 65,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, 10-folds more than all other Cloud-related events put together.

Seemingly Slow Adoption of Cloud

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:00:00 EST

So what do I mean by this? Well if we take a brief look at history we have seen good ideas and new technology provided by the industry that has taken a number of years to really take a hold in the market space. I think the most recent example of this is the slow adoption of USB. USB was first introduced in the mid to late 1990s with the 1.0 release touting faster I/O over regular serial and able to chain multiple devices. At that time we saw a small number of devices, mainly early webcams and mice keyboard combos. But really it did not take off until the iterations through versions 1.1 to 2.0 did it really take hold with a flurry of USB-ready hardware. This took nearly five years after its initial release. Is Cloud adoption in the current economic climate and uncertainty likely to suffer the same?

GSA and Unisys/Google Marks GovCloud Watershed

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:30:00 EST

As widely reported this week, the United States General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded a contract to Unisys to create a secure cloud-based email and collaboration platform. The solution will be based on Google Apps for Government and is expected to save $15M over the next five years when compared to current staff, infrastructure, and contract support costs.

Google To Show Off ‘ChromeBook’

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:00:00 EST

Google is supposed to unveil a beta Chrome OS on a generic Atom-based netbook Tuesday and put the Google-branded thing into limited circulation in the run-up to a commercial product next year. Reportedly no more than 65,000 of this first-stab widget will be made as an appeal to developers.

Cloud Expo Sponsor Mellanox Buys Voltaire for $218 Million

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:15:00 EST

Oracle’s new best friend Mellanox Technologies said Monday that it’s buying sometime rival Voltaire for $8.75 a share, which works out to $218 million cash, roughly a 36% premium. Less what Voltaire’s got in the bank, it’s going for $176 million. Oracle recently bought 10.2% of Mellanox; it uses Mellanox’ InfiniBand widgetry in its servers, including its precious Exadata appliance.

Unix Copyrights Will Remain with Novell

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:00:00 EST

It took Novell more than two days after the announcement that it's being bought for its chief marketing officer John Dragoon to say on the company's web site that Novell's Unix copyrights will stay with Novell. God knows it wasn't answering the phone. What Dragoon says still means control passes to Attachmate's owners and it is still unclear what control Microsoft has over them - considering the acquisition seems to have Microsoft's fingerprints all over it - or how interested Attachmate might be in preserving those rights against SCO, whose case still exists. Oral argument in its appeal of the jury decision award Unix ownership to Novell will be heard January 20.

The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:45:00 EDT

In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1-4, 2010) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem.

OpenStack Hits First Milestone

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:00:00 EDT

Three months after publicly starting down the road to imprint its NDA on the cloud by establishing a large-scale open source cloud platform called OpenStack free for anybody to use, Rackspace Hosting, its BFF NASA and a reportedly growing OpenStack community made their first official code drop Thursday. The milestone is called Austin - they're doing this alphabetically so presumably they have a ways to go - and it includes the all-important Amazon EC2-challenging OpenStack Compute provisioning engine that's supposed to blend the best of the Rackspace Cloud Servers widgetry that underlies its public cloud offering with NASA's own home-made Nebula cloud platform. OpenStack Compute, which has commanded most of the work these last few months, is the engine that provisions virtual machines complements of either Xen or KVM and basically supplies the glue that holds a cloud together.

Dell & EMC in Marriage Counseling Seeking ‘Meaningful’ Relationship

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:15:00 EDT

Dell not only lost 3Par, the object of its techno-lust, to HP, its madcap pursuit of 3Par also really ticked off EMC, its storage partner of long-standing. The pair is now in what sounds a lot like marriage counseling trying to repair their relationship and establish a new basis of trust.

Cloud Expo 2011 East To Attract 10,000 Delegates and 200 Exhibitors

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:45:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 600 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together.

Amazon Scales MySQL for Heavy Traffic

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:00:00 EDT

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added Read Replicas to its Relational Database Service (RDS) to make it easier to scale MySQL deployments to meet the performance demands of high-traffic web applications. Read Replicas lets users create one or more copies of a MySQL Database Instance and an application serve read traffic from the multiple replicas. They can create or delete replicas in minutes using the point-and-click interface of the AWS Management Console. Amazon says Read Replicas can be made to another Availability Zone as a disaster-ready failover measure under its Multi-AZ deployments program. Once a Read Replica is created, any subsequent updates to the source will automatically be replicated in the Read Replica. And Read Replicas can be elastically added to any RDS database deployment to keep query response times fast, even as request volumes scale.

Uh-Oh, Java Trouble Percolating

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:16:00 EDT

Add Java to the list of rebellious Sun properties bucking Oracle hegemony. According to the Register, before Oracle OpenWorld the Java Community Process (JCP), the only entity that's supposed to be able to approve changes to Java, quietly passed a resolution demanding that Oracle spin it out an independent, vendor-neutral legal body like Oracle had demanded Sun do back in late '07. Reportedly only Oracle abstained from the otherwise unanimous vote by such as IBM, Red Hat, Intel, VMware, Nokia, RIM, the Apache Software Foundation and of course Google. Oracle suing Google over Java probably guaranteed this would happen now. The Java executive board apparently discussed a "symbolic vote distancing themselves from Oracle's prosecution" of Google but didn't.

TIBCO Buys OpenSpirit

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:00:00 EDT

TIBCO has brought OpenSpirit Corporation, which sells data and application integration solutions to the oil and gas industry, on undisclosed terms. Its widgetry gathers data from multiple sources to help spot likely deposits. The privately held Texas concern has 200 clients in 57 countries. TIBCO made the announcement when it posted better-than-expected fiscal Q3 results with revenues and license both up 23%. It projected a better-than-expected Q4 attributed to clients doing real-time analyses, with retailers, say, making cross-sell and up-sell offers while the customer is in the store or on the web site. It is seen by some as acquisition fodder.

Agile Testing Solution for Java

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:45:00 EDT

Enterprises today are implementing agile development methodologies, to ensure that their software reaches the user as quickly as possible. Getting this application tested thoroughly is a very important. Frameworks and newer IDE's have made the task of the programmer easier and have tremendously increased the speed to the testing phase. A lack of agile testing methods and frameworks, is hurting this speeds. Many applications stagnate for too long in the testing phase, costing the company time, money and resources. Enterprise Test Manager is an effort to address this niche, with a enterprise based tool, that is scalable, platform independent and machine independent.

Iron, Power, and Cloud Computing: Let's Get Real

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:45:00 EDT

It wasn't long ago that Green Computing was not part of any conversation. To be sure, there were concerns about monitor radiation, and disgust that the West was sending old systems to developing nations so that very poorly paid laborers could bust them up and be directly exposed to the poisons within. This disposal issue has not gone away. But today, Green is meant to refer to energy usage, to reducing carbon footprints (even if you have to charter a jet to Bali to make your point), to keep us from unwittingly turning the Earth into Venus.

The Pulse Advantage

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:46:04 EDT

One of the advantages Pulse is pushing out to its one million developers is the ability to manage four years of Eclipse platform technologies from a single dashboard, including Eclipse 3.0, also known as Helios. Getting developers on board. That’s the challenge technologies from Linux to Android face every day. Genuitec has helped Eclipse overcome this challenge with Pulse. Indeed, more than one million developers around the world have now installed Pulse. Pulse works to give software developers an efficient way to locate, install and manage their Eclipse-based tool suite, among other tools. The software essentially empowers developers to customize their installs while avoiding plug-in management issues -- even when crossing operating systems.

Compuware Workbench Now Available

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:30:00 EDT

Compuware Corporation on Monday announced the general availability of Compuware Workbench, an innovative new open environment for managing mainframe application development. Through an Eclipse-based graphical user interface (GUI) with a single-launch point for Compuware's mainframe products, the Compuware Workbench increases productivity and addresses the training challenge arising from the retiring mainframe workforce phenomenon.

Cloud Databases for Dummies

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:00:00 EDT

TrackVia, the Denver cloud-based database outfit, has added a cloud database application development platform that's supposed to make the cloud accessible to non-technical business users by letting them build their own business-critical database-driven applications instead of waiting around interminably for IT or some software developer to conjure something up that probably won't suit anyway. It claims IT won't mind - and might even become corporate champions - because the scalable widgetry is secure, with reliable support and enterprise-class controls. Heck, it means less work for them and no upfront costs. It's supposed to put a very simple user interface on top of a feature-rich relational database that can be securely accessed and shared over the web.

Open Letter to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:00:00 EDT

Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad: At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey, and taken to Syria. I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be coming back to the United States nor will she allow Sofia to return home. Sofia has been diagnosed with a severe medical condition that requires immediate treatment in the United States. It was scheduled to start on July 27, 2010, in New Jersey, the day after her abduction and was supposed to last until she reaches the age of 3. Any delay in the urgently needed treatment will result in a life-long disability for Sofia and make her dependent for the whole of her adult life. The treatment is not available in Syria. Mr. President, I grew up in Turkey listening to the evening news during our family dinners where I used to hear your father Hafez al-Assad's name more often than the names of my own family together with Menachem Begin, Golda Meir, Anwar Sadat, and Yasser Arafat. I plead with you on behalf of my daughter Sofia to learn of her whereabouts and see her safely and speedily returned home. I also respectfully request a visa to Syria to meet her at the United States Embassy in Damascus to bring her home. Mrs. President, parents around the world have only the Hague Convention to rely on in international child abduction cases. I urge your humanitarian consideration, as the mother of a precious child, to fight for Syria to be a part of the Hague Convention. Thank you in advance.

Cloud Expo Announces CloudCamp @ Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:15:00 EDT

Further cementing its position as The Largest Cloud Computing Event in the World, the organizers of the 7th Cloud Expo, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, announced today that the event will also feature – on November 2nd, 2010 – a CloudCamp unconference. CloudCamp @ Cloud Expo is aimed at anyone working with, or interested in working with, cloud technologies. "With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions," said CloudCamp co-founder Dave Nielsen, who will personally be facilitating the process on site at the Jacob Javits. "At CloudCamp," Nielsen continued, "participants will be encouraged to share their thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing."

Introducing the Objectivity Eclipse CDO

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:57:38 EDT

Objectivity is providing an Objectivity CDO data store for the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) community. The goal of providing this plug-in is to give the Java community of developers who use Eclipse EMF a fast and simple way to integrate their applications to Objectivity/DB . The Objectivity CDO store will allow development teams to integrate Objectivity/DB without having to learn the Objectivity API, cutting learning down by 90%. Many of Objectivity's customers have cited time-to-market as one of the reasons for choosing Objectivity. Recognizing the importance to development teams to quickly integrate and deploy systems, Objectivity has set out to find additional ways to make time-to-market a strength of our value proposition. As the market for customers who are building high-performance Java applications continues to grow, Objectivity is looking to leverage the powerful tools offered by the Eclipse open source community to provide more choices for the Eclipse user community.

Google's Economic Report Is Self-Serving Hype -Consumer Watchdog

Tue, 25 May 2010 15:52:00 EDT

Google, the self-proclaimed "don't-be-evil" company, is following the classic corporate evil-doer's playbook as it attempts to quell worldwide outrage over the WiSpy scandal, Consumer Watchdog said today. The Internet giant's new report claiming that it generated $54 billion in economic activity last year in the United States, is an an example of classic corporate PR spin to divert justified criticism, Consumer Watchdog said. "This is what every big corporation does when they are under fire," said John M. Simpson, consumer advocate with the nonpartisan, nonprofit group. "They divert attention from their wrongdoing and spin a story about their contributions."

Who’s Gonna Buy Novell?

Thu, 20 May 2010 12:15:00 EDT

Novell set this week as the deadline for acquisition offers, according to the Wall Street Journal followed by the New York Times. Elliott Associates LLP spokesman Scott Tagliarino claims Elliott, whose $5.75-a-share offer put Novell in play a couple of months ago, knows nothing about Novell's schedule. "It's running its own show," he said. Elliott's offer is still on the table. Novell refused the hedge fund's unsolicited bid as too low but since the offer inflated Novell's sunken stock price the company knew it was trapped and went looking for a sweeter deal.

Pentaho Harnesses Apache Hadoop to Deliver Big Data Analytics

Wed, 19 May 2010 13:30:00 EDT

Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) leader, on Wednesday announced plans to deliver the industry's first complete end-to-end data integration and business intelligence platform to support Apache Hadoop. The Pentaho BI Suite features a single visual development environment that dramatically simplifies the creation of applications for analyzing the massive volumes of information currently being collected by enterprises. This will widen the appeal of Apache Hadoop by enabling developers and business analysts to more quickly and easily access and analyze data.

Google and Eclipse Foundation To Launch Eclipse Labs

Mon, 17 May 2010 22:00:00 EDT

The Eclipse Foundation has announced Eclipse Labs, a Google hosted portal that will showcase open source projects based on Eclipse. Its main objective is to feature projects that do not need to go through the rigorous processes expected of official Eclipse projects and to provide visibility to those that could be on their way to getting the official stamp. According to Mike Milinkovich , Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, Eclipse Labs allows developers to build a project with access to an issue-tracking system; source code repository, including Subversion or Mercurial; and a project Web site. Google has migrated two projects to the Eclipse Labs: that Workspace Mechanic for Eclipse, that automates maintenance of Eclipse environment and an Eclipse plug-in for the Google Project Hosting issue tracker called Project Hosting Connector for Mylyn. Check out the beta version of Eclipse Labs currently hosted on Google Project Hosting . The default license is EPL (Eclipse Public License) but one can change it to the other licenses available on Google Code.

CA's McCracken: Cloud Computing is Happening Now

Mon, 17 May 2010 02:18:00 EDT

"When economic conditions, technology advances, and customer needs align, transformation happens," said McCracken. "As we emerge from the global economic downturn, we have a tremendous opportunity to leap forward and embrace change, or risk being left behind." McCracken also described a vision for how all businesses will evolve. "People still ask if I think the cloud is really going to happen. I say no; I don't think it's going to happen. I know it is going to happen because it is happening now. Virtualization and cloud computing will enable businesses to adapt to rapidly changing market and customer needs.

SpringSource Acquires RabbitMQ Cloud Messaging Technology

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:15:00 EDT

SpringSource, a division of VMware and the leader in Java application infrastructure and management, today announced the acquisition by VMware of Rabbit Technologies, Ltd., an open source software company based in the United Kingdom. SpringSource will add the RabbitMQ open messaging system into its suite of technologies that reduce the complexity associated with development, deployment and management of enterprise applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. As organizations increasingly build and deploy applications in a cloud environment, the infrastructure to support this new model is evolving. A new type of lightweight, reliable, scalable and portable messaging system is required to support the routing of user requests to the appropriate resources regardless of where they may reside. RabbitMQ is a leader in this field and with this acquisition, SpringSource will employ the principal contributors to RabbitMQ, the open source standards-based messaging system that enables applications or components of applications to more effectively communicate with each other.

Linux Foundation Lives in a Fool’s Paradise

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:15:00 EDT

Linux Foundation (LF) chief Jim Zemlin needed hand-holding after IBM waved some of its patents under the nose of open source mainframer TurboHercules, particularly those two allegedly penalty-free patents IBM pledged to the open source community five years ago, so he turned to LF board member Dan Frye, VP of open systems development at IBM. Frye thereupon repeated part of IBM's 2005 pledge closing his e-mail with the words "IBM stands by this 2005 Non-Assertion Pledge today as strongly as it did then. IBM will not sue for the infringement of any of those 500 patents by any Open Source Software." According to Zemlin that means "all of us can breathe easy - IBM remains true to their word."

There's Simply No Nice Way of Putting This. IBM is an Indian Giver!

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:00:00 EDT

There's simply no nice way of putting this. IBM is an Indian giver. To prevent the commercialization of the long-standing open source project Hercules - which might put some of its mainframe revenues at risk since Hercules is a mainframe emulator - IBM has suddenly claimed - out of the blue - that Hercules infringes at least 173 of its US patents or patent applications - including - get this - patents that it pledged the open source community could use without fear of infringing in 2005. The "non-exhaustive" list of the 106 patents and 67 patent applications that Hercules allegedly violates fills nine pages of a letter that IBM's mainframe CTO Mark Anzani wrote to Roger Bowler, the creator of the project and the president of TurboHercules SAS, the little French outfit trying to commercialize the widgetry.

CUBRID Joins Linux Foundation

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:45:00 EDT

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that CUBRID is its newest member. CUBRID provides an open source database system that is optimized for web services to support mission-critical Internet applications. The company is joining the Linux Foundation to gain access to exclusive networking opportunities and face-to-face collaboration with members of the Linux community. Linux' strengths in the enterprise translate into major advantages for supporting web-based businesses. Its ability to enable seamless high-volume transactions and high performance server/client infrastructure are among the reasons CUBRID has become an active member of the Linux development community and the Linux Foundation.