Open Source

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence.  That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open...

1 replies - 2208 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/11

Google has until the end of the week to revise its book deal with the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers.  A judge extended the deadline...

0 replies - 2284 views - 11/11/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

SAP CTO Calls For Java Freedom

Vishal Sikka, CTO at SAP has made a call for Java to be opened up for the community in his latest blog entry. Having incorporated Java into their NetWeaver...

9 replies - 2186 views - 11/10/09 by James Sugrue in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company.  It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition...

0 replies - 3648 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29

The US Department of Defence released a memo saying that they allow and encourage the use of open source software.  It took them six years to clarify this...

0 replies - 3112 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

IntelliJ IDEA Goes Open Source

JetBrains has just announced that its upcoming version of IntelliJ IDEA, a Java-based platform and IDE, will be available in a free and open source edition...

14 replies - 6729 views - 10/15/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Jetty Gains on Tomcat: New Version 7.0

The open source Java Application server, Jetty, has released its 7.0 version this week and continues to grow in usage.  2009 has been an eventful year for...

6 replies - 5836 views - 10/09/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

How to Contribute to Eclipse

With Bug 222105, Remy Suen has assembled an Eclipse Corner article describing how to contribute to Eclipse. An important part of contributing to an Eclipse...

0 replies - 766 views - 08/06/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

How Open Source can be a Game Changer

A few years back, I read a very interesting article (that I can’t find anymore) by John Newton, the CEO of Alfresco, explaining how Open Source changed their...

9 replies - 2841 views - 07/28/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in Articles

Finding Your Way Through the Code

One of the things that you can do to make your code—and by extension your project—accessible to your adopter community is to make the code as easy to find...

0 replies - 1105 views - 07/22/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Summer Projects for Students

Hey students! Looking for something fun to do this summer? Do you want to be part of the coolest open source project ever?

0 replies - 980 views - 06/23/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Developing Community

My JavaOne encounter has caused me to think a lot lately about developing community around open source projects. Here’s a good rule of thumb if you want...

2 replies - 661 views - 06/08/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Top 6 Insights From the Eclipse Community Survey

We have just published the results from the Eclipse community survey.  The results are pretty insightful and opened my eyes to some things I didn’t know...

0 replies - 1196 views - 05/28/09 by Ian Skerrett in Articles

Get the Band Back Together

In my many years as a consultant (prior to my start here at the Eclipse Foundation), I worked with more organizations that I can reasonably count. My feeling...

1 replies - 1353 views - 05/25/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Wayne's New Job

It’s been a busy last few weeks. I wrapped up the month of April with a great trip to Mainz, Germany for the Eclipse Forum Europe conference followed by a...

0 replies - 1319 views - 05/14/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles