One casualty of Oracle's $7.4 billion deal to acquire Sun Microsystems, which was recently approved by the European Commission, is the closure of Project Kenai. Sun's Project Kenai is a collaborative hosting site for free and open source projects. Project Kenai allows developers to collaborate with each other and allows for free software project hosting. Its services services included version controlled source code repositories, team wikis, a download area to host documents, an integrated team member IM chat, issue tracking, forums, mailing lists, and web hooks for selected events. Project Kenai's domain will be closed and the infrastructure will be continue to be used under NetBeans. Full story...
There's no question that Google is setting its sights on taking some of Microsoft's marketshare in the productivity suite space.
Under the radar startup NorthScale is publicly launching today with a new data management technology to help web-based companies, particularly startups that deal with large amounts of transactional data.
Microsoft’s stealth Windows replacement WebOS turned the corner today with the announcement of Windows Phone developer tools.
Axosoft, the developer of project management software OnTime is releasing a new version of its product that includes an innovative new way for developers to visualize, review and manage the life cycle of backlog items.
Doug Cutting – Cloudera
Hadoop, open source, Yahoo
Veeple Interactive Video
In the video above, Doug Cutting, the creator of the Apache Hadoop project, discusses how the technology was first developed for large web companies (like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, which all use the open-source technology).
Cloud infrastructure giant Rackspace is welcoming a number of former Sun Microsystems employees this week.
Editor's note: This guest post is written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. In it, he responds to critics of his last guest post arguing that enterprise software should be more like Facebook.
Business to business software can be a tough sell. Online B2B can be even a harder sell. While there is certainly money to be made, unless you're one of the big players, the likelihood you're going to succeed is pretty small.
Tonight, Google is hosting one of their Campfire One events at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
Tonight, Google launched its Google Apps Marketplace, an online storefront for Apps products and services.