When you hear the term "Quantum Computing," many of you might feel that it is still a "complex technology confined to ...

At the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) East in Newton, Mass., software executives from Sun Microsystems and Intel said the adoption of open standards has accelerated the pace of innovation and ...

At the New York conference this week, Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich said the evolution of the Eclipse Java IDE into a full-fledged application lifecycle management (ALM) ...

But, that’s much easier to say than to do. You may have noticed it’s not simple at all to write an application that will run the same on Azure and, say, Amazon ...

For many years now, there has been a trend toward open source in the field of system development. It can be seen in software libraries for the product itself as well as in development tools. A clear ...

Summary On June 6, 2005, Actuate Corporation announced the availability of BIRT 1.0, an Eclipse-based, open source, 100 percent Java reporting solution. Developed within Actuate, BIRT provides basic ...

“It’s really hard to build an HTML application that talks to one database, yet IT developers have a huge backlog of requested applications that talk to multiple databases,” says Peter Yared, CEO of ...

Cloud applications seem very convenient until you start thinking about how much of your work depends on someone else’s servers, but Linux gives you another option. Over the past few years, I have ...

Like great character actors sharing screen time with a megastar, open-source tools seldom steal the limelight that shines on Linux. But those tools often get more applause from users who are putting ...