Open Source

SourceForge’s top projects: Open source ERP

xTuple and ADempiere, two open source ERP suites, top the ranking of the most active projects on SourceForge

Cloudera preps Hadoop for the enterprise

Cloudera expands its commercial Hadoop packages, gears up to offer the technology to enterprises as an alternative to relational databases

Apache upgrades Tomcat Web server

Version 7.0 boasts Java specification compliance, memory leak detection

Why you’ll be evaluating Chrome OS enterprise PCs

The less-than-free price point and increasing feature set in Chrome OS and Google Docs will be difficult for PC makers to ignore

Three’s Company: Oracle and Three Java IDEs

Eclipse Helios technologies arrive on the release train

This year's train is the largest ever, featuring a Linux IDE package and improved support for JavaScript and Java Enterprise Edition 6

In the clouds with Amazon’s SimpleDB

IBM EGL business language moves to open source

The project aims to develop and evolve a set of Eclipse-based tools for EGL in an effort to boost backing for the business app programming language

Red Hat’s revenue glass ceiling is its own making

Red Hat suggests reaching $5 billion in revenue requires displacing $50 billion in existing user spending -- I disagree

Surprising findings in developers’ open source usage

Windows usage is declining, MySQL usage is gaining, and Enterprise JavaBeans and Spring usage are tied