Open Source

Building cloud-ready, multicore-friendly applications, Part 2: Mechanics of the cloud

Orient yourself and your applications in the cloud

Oracle-Sun deal renews calls for OpenOffice’s independence

Question remains about best role model: Mozilla, Apache, or Linux Foundation?

Apple is sued after pressuring open source iTunes project

Apple forced BluWiki to take down the iPodhash project last December

Oracle, Java, and open source

Oracle/Sun: The end of Java as we know it?

A community weighs the pros and cons of Oracle's new claim on Java

Can Oracle make sense of Sun’s hardware?

By acquiring Sun Microsystems, Oracle gets instant credibility in key technologies but will face its share of challenges

Infobright: We’re the MySQL of open source data warehousing

Recent open source convert Infobright says it hopes to do for analytics what MySQL did for databases

Has Microsoft lost its war on open source?

Open source proponents say that it doesn't matter anymore if Microsoft threatens them with legal battles

Sun’s open source chief slams Google App Engine

Simon Phipps calls Google's decision to support a subset of Java classes 'wanton and irresponsible'

The JCP up close and personal