Mozilla announced "Boot to Gecko" today, their take on a mobile operating system. B2G's main goal is to "pursue the goal of building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web". Mozilla envisions an operating system based on...
2 replies - 14354 views - 07/25/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
VMware's SpringSource has just released what they are calling the first open source PaaS. With Cloud Foundry,
developers can choose their framework, app services, and can run their
creations on a variety of cloud environments.
0 replies - 16264 views - 04/13/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Drizzle is the latest lightweight fork originating from Oracle's MySQL database. The Drizzle development team has eliminated all of the features they considered non-essential, leaving behind a leaner, faster version of MySQL. Users will enjoy the reduced...
2 replies - 19910 views - 03/17/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
It was two years ago when Sun released MySQL 5.1. Today the open source project's formidable user base will finally get the next major release, MySQL 5.5. The first major version produced by Oracle includes InnoDB by default, SIGNAL/RESIGNAL support for...
0 replies - 24488 views - 12/17/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The Mozilla Jetpack project, which is now changing its name, has reached version 1.0 Beta 1. Its current APIs are quite stable and more will be implemented in the coming months. Mozilla engineer Daniel Buchner has created a chart comparing Firefox,...
1 replies - 18093 views - 12/13/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Google presented a new document to the court in the Oracle-Android case. In the document, Google says that they did not copy Oracle's Java APIs and that Oracle had revised or deleted essential passages in the evidence that attempts to prove Google's...
0 replies - 22724 views - 11/13/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The nearly finished 5.5 version
of MySQL is at the release candidate stage this week. The 5.5 version
now uses InnoDB by default instead of the old MyISAM engine. Oracle
says this will make it much faster.Continuing the SwingX Release Tradition
0 replies - 14923 views - 09/21/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The Google App Engine 1.3.4 prerelease went live this weekend with authentication capabilities for apps. Applications will be able to authenticate with Open ID by selecting the OpenID option when generating an application in the admin console. A new API...
0 replies - 11809 views - 05/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Monty Sends His Petition to Regulators
0 replies - 13710 views - 01/05/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The highlight of Day 2 of Sun Tech Days Hyderabad for me was the keynote session by David Axmark - MySQL co-founder.
0 replies - 1071 views - 03/01/08 by Arun Gupta in News
