Open Source

Eclipse readies workbench upgrade

Release 4 of Eclipse's open source development tooling platform features a more services-oriented approach

Eclipse Pulsar still holds potential for mobile application development

Pulsar has been held back by the perception that it is a Java IDE, say panelists at ElipseCon, where OSGi efforts also will be featured

Novell rejects ‘inadequate’ $2B takeover bid from hedge fund

Some have questioned whether Novell is really worth $2 billion, but others say Novell indeed could be worth that much or more

Hosted Drupal CMS planned for midyear

Drupal Gardens service will be released at about the same time as Drupal 7, a major update to the open-source CMS platform

What users want from Oracle’s Java Community Process

Skeptics fear Oracle will continue a heavy-handed tradition, while some see open source efforts starting to sideline the JCP

Open-Xchange email gains integration with VoIP

Users will also be able to reply to Twitter and Facebook messages and view RSS feeds in the Open-Xchange client

Ex-Sun open source honcho: Sorry about that TCK license, Apache!

Actor style messaging and honey do lists

Rackspace hires to align with MySQL offshoot

A number of people who worked on the Drizzle project have gone to the cloud infrastructure vendor

Sun’s open source chief leaves following Oracle merger

Simon Phipps announced his departure after nearly 10 years with Sun