Open Source

Sun Cloud — aka not a story about Sun and IBM

Sun's Cloud offering likely to face uphill battle until its future as an independent company is settled

Java crowd has mixed views on potential Sun-IBM deal

IBM + Sun: How a merger would impact IT

Clouds, servers, open source, Java, and competition with HP would all be affected by potential acquisition

Writing good unit tests, Part 1: Follow your GUTs

Best practices and tools for high-quality test code

MapReduce, not just for Google et al anymore

Open source startup Cloudera aims to bring MapReduce style of applications to mere mortals (aka enterprises)

Sun and Cisco to compete head on?

With Cisco expected to enter the blade market and Sun expected to offer networking equipment, things could get interesting awfully fast.

Pentaho Partner Summit April 2-3

Find out about the ongoing evolution of open source BI, Kettle, and Mondrian at this bay area event.

Opening up the Java Community Process

Java standards body's growing pains reflect a community in transition

Jimmy Fallon on the Palm Pre

The hype machine is getting in gear for Palm's newest smartphone

Is Red Hat a software firm or a financial institution?

Nearly half of Red Hat's Net Income (aka profit) comes from outside its core software business