Windows 7's coming-out parties, Samsung's green handsets, Sun open sources mobile dev tool, and more. PDC, WinHEC to be coming-out parties for Windows 7. Microsoft indicates that it will finally give developers a first in-depth technical look at the forthcoming OS at its conferences this fall. Aiming to address the issue of fragmentation within the mobile development space, Sun Microsystems releases source code for the Java Micro Edition Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT), and offers it under the GPL v2.In a report titled “SaaS Impact on ERP” Gartner states that ERP SaaS providers cannot meet large enterprises’ dire need for an ERP suite right now and, perhaps more important, hosted ERP offerings won’t be viable options for large enterprises within the next five years. Samsung Electronics, meanwhile, issues three green handsets that, it claims, earn their eco-friendly label by the material used inside and out. Call it a geek love story: IT managers are falling hard for SSDs over HDDs, in large part because solid-state drives run fast enough to replace multiple hard-disk drives and they help reduce electric bills. And a study by boutique consultancy Voke determines that corporate software development is presently chaotic as projects go over budget, miss deadlines and do not actually meet end-users’ needs even once they’re declared complete. To that end, more and more companies are looking to business analysts as “the keeper of a consistent and agreed-upon vision of the applications being developed.” Analyst: In-house app dev fraught with waste. Software Development