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How can you scale your Oracle environment by replicating to EnterpriseDB? What exactly is it that's special about PostgreSQL and makes it the world's most advanced database? How can EnterpriseDB reduce your database TCO by up to 90%? These key questions were all answered when Andy Asto...

Gartner gives IBM first place in worldwide server revenue for the ninth consecutive quarter, with dramatic growth in Unix and blade server revenue. Apparently IBM increased its share in Unix revenue 5.5 points year-over-year to 33% of total revenues, while Sun lost share.

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has hired Dave Rosenberg, LinuxWorld Expo's programs director and an open source journalist, to fill a new post it has created as principal analyst.

Microsoft's Martin Taylor and OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen met recently at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco to discuss Microsoft's idea of developing a joint analysis of Windows vs. Linux. But Cohen says he rejected the notion.

Sun Microsystems is proposing that the open source community develop a royalty-free digital rights management (DRM) standard under a project that it's calling the Open Media Commons initiative. The company says it will make its Sun Labs Project DReaM (DRM/everywhere available) availabl...

Google introduced a Sidebar panel in its online beta recently that personalizes desktop search with live information. This and other moves show that the company will be battling Yahoo, Microsoft, and now Skype for the forseeable future.

OATH has doubled in size since the organization was founded nearly 18 months ago. Other new members include Audio SmartCard, Boojum Mobile, Discretix Technologies, Iteon, Imprivata, and Red Cannon Security. OATH has added industry and end-user companies to its membership. Two majo...

In 2004 alone, more that 400 developers a day joined IBM's developer networks in emerging markets, IBM says. This equates to about 17 new developers signing up every hour. In response to this adoption, IBM is deploying a series of virtual mentoring classes that will allow developers to...

The Apache Software Foundating is looking to starting a mailing list for women, with the goal of 'providing a supportive, encouraging forum to help women become more involved in ASF projects.'

The lack of structured technical support can be a dealbreaker for many companies considering a Linux-based strategy. Now IBM has said it will support the Geronimo J2EE application server, in an attempt to win new open-sourced based business for the company.

The RSS 3 Standard is supposed to replace the outdated RSS 0.9x and RSS 2.0 ones by extensively documenting the RSS language, thereby solving common problems with the existing standards, says Jonathan Avidan on his RSS 3 website. Now comes word that Microsoft may want a say as well.

The fifth International PHP Conference will be held in Frankfurt, Germany November 6-9. New this year is a one-day Management Day event, to go along with a variety of technical session tracks.

Patenting of technology through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is a complex process, fraught with potential misunderstandings and controversry. The latest has to do with the Apple iPod, but it is hardly the only time patent controversies have erupted.

Apache's Axis2 0.91 release is now available for download. The organization lists several major features with this release, and continues to seek contributions from the community to its development.

Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz writes in his blog that he attended the OSCon conference recently, where he attended some presentations and answered some questions.

We've recently seen OSDL create a sort of patent pool that's used by companies that wish to donate patents for the use of open source. I want to make two points about that. OSDL means well, but the patent pool is from the wrong people. They're from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, companies that ...

Ryman's blog can be read at ryman.eclipsedevelopersjournal.com. He is the latest i-technology celebrity whose blog is syndicated on SYS-CON's branded blog-n-play community pages next to James Gosling, Marc Fleury, Ben Forta, John C. Dvorak, Alan Williamson and others.

John Roberts, CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM Inc., will be speaking next week at the LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco. On August 9 he will discuss the challenges of satisfying the open source community while also building a business that can generate revenue using open source pro...

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See 3P, oh, and wonder whether these critical components of open-source application development are going to take over significant chunks of the world. Now a survey of 400 developers in the EMEA region shows the P's losing popularity.

This development builds on previous agreements in which Novell became a JBoss Authorized Service Partner, bundled JBoss Application Server as the default app server on Novell's SUSETM LINUX Enterprise Server 9.

JBoss chairman and CEO Marc Fleury unveiled 'jBPM 2.0' today - a powerful workflow engine that represents a major step forward in functionality over jBpm 1.0, the engine developed by the Java Business Process Management project. That project's founder and lead developer, Tom Baeyens, i...