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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 1059765 Massachusetts-based Black Duck Software says open source development is much more prevalent and productive than most people think. "There are tens of...

The Merb and Ruby on Rails projects this week announced plans to merge Merb into Rails 3. "Both are open-source development frameworks for creating Web applications and services in the Ruby...

Seattle-based startup Stax Networks this week launched into private beta. "Stax is offering a...

It was almost a year ago Yahoo took over Zimbra but it took Yahoo more than a decade to update its calendar service and for this purpose it deployed the technology of Zimbra. The latest Yahoo Cale...

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With this week's release of Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, a number of different writers have completed and published performance tests using the SunSpider Javasc...

Sun Microsystems today launched the rich Internet application (RIA) platform JavaFX 1.0.
"The JavaFX developer kit includes compiler and runtime tools, graphics, media, web services and rich text ...

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According to eWeek's Darryl K. Taft, Microsoft is currently working on a mobile AJAX technology called Kojax. "The goal of Kojax is said to be to enable...

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Sun Microsystems has announced plans to cut between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs — that's between 15 and 18 percent of its workforce.
"It blamed the cuts on the global economi...

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Microsoft and Sun Microsystems this week announced an agreement under which Sun will offer the MSN Toolbar to anyone who downloads Sun's Java Runtime E...

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Sun Microsystems today announced the release of Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude, along with a preview of features to be included in the upcomin...