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Sun’s Project Kenai Shutdown After Oracle Acquisition

TechCrunchIT  Feb 02 10

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...

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TechCrunchIT  Mar 12 10

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TechCrunchIT  Mar 12 10

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The Facebook Imperative Cannot Be Stopped

TechCrunchIT  Mar 10 10

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