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Sun's OpenSolaris ready for developers

Sun Microsystems gave developers a gift at the CommunityOne developer conference on Monday — a packaged version of OpenSolaris with a new logo. Read more »

Open source Solaris turns profitable while McNealy stands ground

Despite relinquishing the chief executive officer role at Sun Microsystems last week, chairman Scott McNealy has no intention of reducing his public profile as the company continues to hammer its open-source-is-a-profitable-future message. Read more »

Sun releases Solaris 10 for free

Sun Microsystems has fulfilled its pledge to make its newest version of the Solaris operating system available for free. Read more »

Solaris engineers offer personalised source-code tours

Sun Microsystems chose to employ the human touch when it introduced more than five million lines of Solaris source code onto the Internet. Read more »

Sun preps Solaris 10 for Linux

Sun Microsystems will build software into its forthcoming Solaris 10 version of Unix to run Linux applications unchanged. Read more »

Sun begins open-source Solaris era

Sun Microsystems has released Solaris as open-source software, a move that's central to the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend off rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft. Read more »

New GPL draft due Wednesday

A new phase of wrangling over the future of the dominant open-source license, the General Public License, is set to begin on Wednesday and to end 90 days afterward. Read more »

Sun to offer more free software

Sun Microsystems said on Wednesday that it will offer free access to its Java server suite and N1 management software and bundle them with its Solaris operating system. Read more »

Sun releases MySQL 5.1

Sun Microsystems has released the updated 5.1 version of the MySQL open source database software it recent acquired, promising improved performance and management of larger database applications. Read more »

Sun taps EnterpriseDB for PostgreSQL support

Sun Microsystems has signed a deal with EnterpriseDB to provide support to Sun customers running the PostgreSQL database, EnterpriseDB said this week. Read more »

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Features (21)

Study: Open-source databases going mainstream?

Following in the footsteps of the Linux operating system, open-source databases are moving toward mainstream use and threatening proprietary software alternatives, says a new survey. Read more »

Access Microsoft SQL Server 2000 using PHP

Combine the powers of PHP and Microsoft SQL Server to create database-driven Web sites that can handle large amounts of data and traffic. Read more »

SQL Anywhere Studio 9.0 proves to be a capable DBMS

SQL Anywhere Studio Version 9.0 from Sybase provides a feature-rich DBMS with a small footprint suitable for mobile devices. Find out more about what this DBMS can do for your next database project. Read more »

Time to improve application deployment

How many of us pay any attention to the system engineers who need to actually deploy these things? The answer is, quite unfortunately, not enough of us. Read more »

Learn about core enhancements in Java SE 6

Peter V. Mikhalenko covers many of the new features and enhancements introduced in Java SE 6, which is slated for release this year. He also discusses how this release may become a revolutionary step in GUI and desktop Java application development. Read more »

Set up Web-based e-mail quickly using SquirrelMail

A good alternative to a traditional client/server-based e-mail solution is to simply set up one that's Web-based. In this article, Jack Wallen shows how to configure Web-based e-mail quickly and easily using SquirrelMail. Read more »

Java SE 6 in a nutshell

Peter V. Mikhalenko covers many of the new features and enhancements introduced in Java SE 6, which is slated for release this year. He also discusses how this release may become a revolutionary step in GUI and desktop Java application development. Read more »

Gosling looks down Sun's open road

James Gosling discusses Sun's decision to release Java under the General Public License, whether open source is more secure than proprietary software, how IT departments can cut development costs, and why Microsoft still owns the desktop. Read more »

Jump into LAMP development with XAMPP

Want to get a LAMP development effort fired up without the hassles of configuring everything from scratch? XAMPP makes it a breeze. Read more »

Unplugged: Sun chief engineer Rob Gingell

After 17-years trying to get the other technology gurus at Sun to follow his lead recently appointed software CTO Rob Gingell is now responsible for steering the shift from Unix to Java. Read more »

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Jonathan Schwartz's free software foundation

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Sun has become its own free software foundation, open sourcing everything from Java to Solaris, and acquiring the open source MySQL database for $1 billion in January of this year, as a way to grow its revenue. Read more »

Install Web stacks in an instant with BitNami

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Need to set up a server environment to run Web applications such as WordPress, MediaWiki, Joomla, Trac, DocuWiki, or Drupal? Here's how to do it in less than two minutes with free software. Read more »

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