Open Source

Leveraging JPA with Amazon’s SimpleDB

What SAP can teach you on how to adopt open source

The two big lessons: Use approval processes and consider encouraging developer contributions to open source projects

Is open source right for your software business?

Contrary to assumptions, commercial open source vendors have few real advantages in a tough software market

SAP adopting more open source software

Taking on rival Oracle, SAP settles into open source software community, despite earlier ambivalence

Convirture manages open source Xen, KVM virtualization and the private cloud

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition addresses the management gap in open source virtualization platforms and attempts to compete on the level of VMware vCenter

Novell Suse Gallery puts free Linux-based appliances on tap

Searchable Web-based silo marks a step in evolution to cloud computing

Open source Razorback project targets malware, zero-day exploits

Sourcefire says its new project could be integrated directly into security gateways as well as deployed on standalone servers

More GAE datastore resources

OpenSSO gets a post-Oracle rejuvenation

ForgeRock assumes control of the authentication technology first developed by Sun

Perl creator hints at imminent release of long-awaited Perl 6

Larry Wall's annual 'State of the Onion' talk at OSCON foreshadows the arrival of the ambitious update to the Perl programming language