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Salesforce.com has extended its platform as a service offering with the addition of Force.com Development-as-a-Service - a new set of development tools and APIs that help enterprise developers harness the full potential of cloud computing. Force.com, which was first unveiled during the company’s Dreamforce conference in September, is built on the company’s proprietary Visualforce technology. [...]

JBoss a division of Red Hat announced the Enterprise Application Platform in version 4.3, which is upgraded with messaging and Web services technologies. Various JBoss.org components have been integrated into JBoss Enterprise Application Platform v4.3 and are fully supported for use in both development and production.The platform provides open-source technologies for the development and deployment [...]

In a surprise move, Sun Microsystems said it’s acquiring privately held open source database vendor MySQL AB for approximately USD 1 billion.Called the largest open source software deal ever, the merger makes Sun the owner of a critical part of the popular LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python/PHP) open source software stack. Sun already has been [...]

GigaSpaces, provider of solutions for infrastructure software, has launched OpenSpaces.org. It is a community web site for developers to utilize and contribute to the open source OpenSpaces development framework.OpenSpaces extends the Spring Framework for enterprise Java development, and leverages the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) for data caching, messaging. It is designed for building scale-out [...]

Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.Tony Scott, 56, will start as CIO in February and report to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Scott’s most recent experience was as senior vice president [...]

Trolltech, the creator of application development platforms for desktop computers, has congratulated free software project, K Desktop Environment on the successful launch of KDE 4.0. KDE 4.0 brings new ways of viewing applications and widgets, a new start menu, a revamped file browser, as well as a new look to some entertainment apps and others. [...]

An Italian researcher has identified a flaw in Apple’s QuickTime media application that can allow an attacker to perform a DoS (denial of service) attack or take control of an affected PC.Security researcher Luigi Auriemma reported that a buffer overflow condition exists in version QuickTime 7.3.1. According to Auriemma’s advisory, the problem is a buffer-overflow, [...]

SpringSource also known as Interface21, open source software for building and deploying enterprise applications released Spring.Net 1.1, an application framework for building .Net applications. The design of Spring.NET is based on the Java version of the Spring Framework.揃y offering an expanded feature set and leveraging the modular design and component-based nature of the Spring Framework, [...]

Escalate Retail, a provider of solutions for catalog, retail and e-commerce, announced version 9.5 of the Escalate Blue Martini(R) E-Commerce Suite, an e-commerce platform that allows retailers to engage their customers.Blue Martini version 9.5 will be shown for the first time at the NRF 97th Annual Convention and Expo, Jan. 14 and 15, 2008. Blue [...]

InfoWorld has awarded CodeGear JBuilder 2007 as the best Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) in its 2007 Technology of the Year awards.The InfoWorld awards recognize significant technologies of the past year that assured to make the greatest impact on enterprise IT strategies.JBuilder 2007 is an IDE built on the open source Eclipse framework, which makes [...]