Open Source

Oracle links ADF development technology to Eclipse

The company will add ADF capabilities to its Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, which plugs into the Eclipse IDE

Hadoop and MapReduce: Breaking records in the cloud

Yahoo researchers create the longest pi yet -- and hint at the cloud's potential for highly intense and complex computation

Oracle MySQL rival PostgreSQL gets major revamp

PostgreSQL has been updated to include streaming replication and can be natively run on 64-bit Windows clients

Open source business intelligence

MongoDB and CouchDB: vastly different queries

Rumored SAP-Red Hat takeover viewed with skepticism

SAP's stance on open source is one reason cited by analysts as an obstacle to a deal with Red Hat

Red Hat submits cloud APIs as potential industry standard

Red Hat's Deltacloud APIs may be overseen by third-party group Distributed Management Task Force

Java founder: Oracle could still live up to 2007 pledge

James Gosling, "father" of Java, expresses guarded hope that Oracle will make good on its call for 'vendor-neutral' body to oversee Java

Bossie Awards 2010: The best open source software of the year

InfoWorld's Test Center picks the top open source platforms, middleware, applications, and application development tools

Vyatta routing software ready for IPv6

The latest version of the open source system also includes new features for cloud computing