Open Source

Oracle CEO Ellison mocks Salesforce.com’s ‘itty bitty’ application

The jibes that Salesforce.com's CRM depends on Oracle's technology come as Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff prepares to speak at Oracle's OpenWorld show

Eclipse Pulsar smartphone app dev platform gets an upgrade

The project gains support for Ericsson and Sony Ericsson developer communities

Verizon teams with Google to develop Android devices

The agreement covers applications sold via the Android Market store as well as the development of smartphones, PDAs, and netbooks

easyb now has an Eclipse plug-in!

Google Noop project features JVM-based language

Noop language project is intended to encourage industry best practices and discourage 'worst offenses'

Cloudera simplifies Hadoop with easy-to-use GUI

New browser-based application suite will make it easier to use Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale data processing and analysis

You can borrow EC2 too

Open-Xchange adds push e-mail to mobile phones

OXtender for Business Mobility adds support for push e-mail to mobile phones that use Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol, including the iPhone

Instant Continuous Integration via the cloud

Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation leader soaks in stinging critique

Noted expert on standards lists five points Microsoft must change if it wants CodePlex to succeed in bringing together open source and proprietary software companies