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Why IBM passed on JBoss
IBM's software chief has shed some light on why his firm passed on Oracle's latest acquistion target. Read more »
Oracle grabs Sleepycat
The open source embedded database specialist has become Oracle's latest acquisition. Read more »
Borland buys into project management
Borland Software has acquired Legadero, a small, privately held company, to fill out Borland's line of software development tools. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to be announced Monday, were not disclosed. Read more »
MySQL backtracks on closed-source plan
Sun has backtracked on previous plans to release important backup features for its MySQL database under a proprietary licence, following widespread criticism from the open-source community. Read more »
Yahoo opens up geographic data to Web sites
Yahoo is letting outside Web sites use information from its own catalogue of geographic information, thus allowing programmers to employ Yahoo data and services in their own applications. Read more »
Phillips: Oracle may support rival databases
Oracle may make a decision as early as March on whether to support multiple databases in its "Project Fusion" release, which will combine acquired products with its own applications. Read more »
MySQL hits US$50 million revenue, plans IPO
Open-source database maker hopes going public will raise funds for acquisitions, CEO Marten Mickos says. Read more »
Red Hat sued over JBoss technology
Red Hat has been hit by a patent lawsuit related to JBoss, just weeks after completing its purchase of the open-source software company. Read more »
Sun criticised for MySQL Enterprise shift
Sun is to begin offering certain MySQL features, beginning with some backup functions, solely to its enterprise subscription customers, the company announced this week. Read more »
IBM brings management tools to mainframe
IBM later this year plans to release management tools for its mainframe server, including a "federated" security application for logging onto several systems at once. Read more »
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Tuning a PMIS for top performance
This article looks at the key modules of a project management information system (PMIS) and where the system fits into the project management life cycle. Read more »
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Service Pack or Market Attack?
-- I will give it to Microsoft. When they want to capture a particular market, they go hard or not at all. And with SQL Server 2005, they have their sights set firmly on the Business Intelligence market. And their strategy makes sense—they are moving to become the "one stop shop" for database servers, data management tools, reporting and analysis, eliminating the need to spend more money on third-party tools. Read more »
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This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web. Read more »
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Bridging the gap between programmers and the visionA successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.