A new report by Forrester Research states that the market for collaboration and productivity web apps in the enterprise (a.k.a. enterprise 2.0) is set for a shake-up, with prices to fall in some cases by over half. Price drops will be especially sharp in blog, wikis, social networking and widgets. The only exception is mashups, which will increase in price over the next 5 years.

Spring Batch 2.0.0.M2 is now available. See the Spring Batch downloads page for more information - there is the usual .zip download and also Maven artifacts in S3.

Atlantic Dominion Solutions CEO Robert Dempsey unveils his latest project expens'd, an expense tracking application built using Ruby on Rails, and delivered as SaaS.

Think you have hard time finding a job after graduation? Read this guy and find out why it's your own fault. Well, most of it.

A simple poster about the reasons software projects fail. You can print and pin it near your workplace as a frequent reminder to follow good development practices.

Adobe today officially released the tenth version of its ubiquitous Flash player on the world. Flash 10, which was previously known under the code name “Astro,” adds a large number of new features to the Flash player, but the most flashy (forgive the terrible pun) are certainly the 3D support, the new text engine, and the Pixel Bender image processor, which was formerly known as Hydra.

On Friday, Linux kernel 2.6.27 was released, introducing a number of new features and enhancements. Most notably, this release incorporates fully the (now infamous) patched Intel e1000e driver. However, there are several other interesting and welcome additions to this kernel release.

Ramat-Gan, Israel, October 13 – AtlasCT is announcing the release of version 3.2, the newest version of AtlasMobile™ API, an advanced package for location-based mobile applications development. The AtlasMobile API is designed for fast development of location-based applications in Java™ ME. The new version of AtlasMobile API is the most advanced in the market and most unique by its small footprint, high performance and low memory usage. It is compatible with low-end to high-end mobile devices either equipped with GPS or not.

Anti-spam puzzles are helping researchers develop smarter algorithms.

To increase the skills behind Glassfish, OStatic is bringing you free Web hosting on the Cloud Computing environment, free of charge for up to 12 months, courtesy of its partnership with Sun. Developers can now develop, test and deploy Glassfish-based applications with little or no investment in infrastructure and purchase Web hosting only when applications are successful and infrastructure demand grows.

Screen shots hot off the...uh...screen..... For most businesses only about 20% of the code being written today is for new applications; (DDN: Not true 100% however that is about right for budgets which is likely what they meant anyway). the majority of work is being done on existing code bases. A typical issue encountered when working on existing code is not having good tools to help the architect or developer understand the system. (DDN: Uh.. How about no regression tests? How about no mandate for reuse, framework API quality, etc. etc.? Sure lets not talk about the why, just the ways we can profit from it)

Visit IBM developerWorks to download your free trial of IBM WebSphere Application Server V7. WebSphere Application Server drives business agility with an innovative, performance based foundation for your SOA environment on the broadest range of platforms in the industry.

As Microsoft Corp. releases its Silverlight 2.0 rich media browser plug-in tomorrow, it is claiming strong momentum for the free, would-be Adobe Flash-killer.

The Apache Lucene Project has released the version 2.4.0 of Lucene JAVA. With 2.4.0 we have relaxed the backwards compatibility policy of the Fieldable interface: we now allow changes on a case by case basis. This means any custom classes that implement Fieldable will need to be updated. This was done to accommodate the new omitTf() method (to do pure boolean searching).

SourceForge.net, the 9-year-old source control and project management service for open source applications, has added a new feature to its service lineup: hosted applications. Blogger Sarah Perez noticed the hosted apps feature this morning, though it was apparently soft-launched for developers via the SourceForge support forums about a month ago.

Today we’re announcing the formation of a new group that will focus on the research and development of developer tools for the open Web.

JS Strict Data Types is an attempt to create a JavaScript Object that provides an easy way to keep strict data types in current JavaScript engines. The library is about 7K and is released under the GNU Lesser GPL.

Today, we are really excited to be able to announce a big personal change. Ben and I are joining forces, full time, for the first time. What are we doing? We are joining Mozilla to create a new group with the charter to create developer tools for the Open Web.

Technology Integration to Deliver Mature, Embedded Java Reporting and Other Key BI Solutions on Top of a New Generation of Spring-based Applications in the Enterprise

This won’t be a very technical post, but I suggest reading it for every fanatic developer, project manager or anybody who uses computers extensively.

Discover QueryScope, a visualization technology that transforms a complex, multi-page SQL statement into a colorful bubble diagram that shows the key characteristics of the query. The visual cues stand out to signify relative sizes of database tables, table join patterns, and index availability. When many SQL statements are displayed side by side, their commonality and differences become apparent.

Stanley Ho announced today on the JSR 277 mailing list that he was leaving Sun and heading to RIM.

Recently we made several updates in Grizzly 2.0:

What is Brooks Law and can it be broken_

Sun Microsystems, one of the world’s largest server and software makers, finds itself in an awkward position: It might soon have enough cash to buy all of its stock and go private.