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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 »

Red Hat scoops up JBoss for US$350m

Linux distributor Red Hat said on Monday that it has signed an agreement to buy open-source company JBoss for at least US$350 million, a move that expands Red Hat's product line and adds to its growth potential. Read more »

Unisys wants AU$250k open source advocate

The Australian arm of IT services multinational Unisys has placed an advertisement for an evangelist to plug open source software locally, with a potential pay packet of AU$250,000 per year. Read more »

Open source threatens Java servers

Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat. Read more »

Fleury expounds on open source

The JBoss founder leaves little room for misunderstanding, saying: 'We started in OSS and we will die in OSS'. Read more »

JBoss to boost open source projects

Seeking to expand its network of partners, JBoss is expected to introduce on Monday a program to host third-party open-source projects aligned with its back-end software. Read more »

MySQL and JBoss cozy up

Open-source software companies JBoss Group and MySQL are forming a partnership to jointly sell and market products to large corporate customers interested in expanding their use of open-source software. 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 »

Oracle grabs Sleepycat

The open source embedded database specialist has become Oracle's latest acquisition. Read more »

JBoss CEO: Buyout talk got 'out of hand'

Months after a media frenzy over a rumoured Oracle acquisition, JBoss continues to field buyout offers and consider further venture funding, the company's chief executive says. Read more »

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Red Hat and JBoss: No turning back for open source

Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss is one step toward what many consider inevitable: the creation of open source companies that rival the clout of entrenched software-providers. Read more »

Open source and the middleware market

Gartner predicts that licence revenues for infrastructure software will start declining from 2006 due to the impact of open source on the market's business models. We look at how the market is changing. Read more »

Six barriers to open source adoption

The benefits of open source software are well known--lower TCO, more choice, and increasing quality and functionality of the code. Several barriers must be overcome before Linux and other open source projects are broadly accepted across enterprises, but they aren't insurmountable. Read more »

How to make money from Open source

Ever pondered how companies make money from free and open source development projects? Could you open source your code and still make a profit? Con Zymaris puts forward the case. Read more »

Open source Java route yields big savings

What do you do when the heterogeneity of your IT infrastructure and your OS-specific legacy deployments are standing in the way of true progress? Read more »

Proprietary vs. open source? Take the best of both codes

The Microsoft vs. Linux confrontation is too often seen as a battle for the hearts and minds of this industry. From a corporate IT perspective, each side has legitimate claims and products to offer. It's not an either-or situation; it's about the price and service for goods rendered. The enterprise will be a hybrid world that continues to integrate both proprietary and open source code for a long time to come. Read more »

RIFE with possibilities

Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »

Borland to release JBuilder X

The software company introduces JBuilder X, an overhaul to its Java programming tool intended to simplify Web application and Web services development. Read more »

Java jams: five IDEs tested

We put five of the most popular Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) up against each other. Find out which tool is tailor made for your development requirements. Read more »

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CodeGear Q&A

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- CodeGear is the new name for Borland's developer tools business. Builder AU spoke to CodeGear about the handover and direction of the developer tools business under the new banner. Read more »

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