Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News)
Even with all the drama surrounding Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun and critics’ concerns about its impact on Oracle’s open source database competition, Sun developers are still hard at work on MySQL. One of the fruits of their labors is the recent MySQL 5.5 milestone 2 development release, which introduces [...]
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MySQL 5.5 Comes with Surprise Features
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009Adobe Plans to Open Flash Framework
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Author: Sean Kerner (Internet News)
Adobe’s Flash is a closed-source technology and is likely to stay that way, but that doesn’t mean that technologies surrounding and supporting Flash can’t be open.
Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) today is announcing the open sourcing of two technologies related to the Flash platform — one for its media player, the other for [...]
Major PHP Update Coming Soon
Friday, June 26th, 2009Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News)
PHP 5.3 could be out as soon as Tuesday June 30th. The new open source language release is a big deal for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that by my count this is the first major update to PHP since 2006 and the [...]
Spring 3.0 Jumps onto Java
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News)
Version 3.0 of the open source Spring Java framework is nearing completion and is set to offer Java developers new capabilities to rapidly develop applications. SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson will detail the new capabilities of Spring 3.0 during the JavaOne conference this week in San Francisco.
Spring is a popular open [...]
Microsoft rolls out open source PHP for Azure (Cloud Services) & IE 8
Thursday, May 14th, 2009Source/Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News)
Microsoft has been getting cozy with PHP for the last few years and is now getting expanding the relationship. Today Microsoft announced a new open source Software Developer Kit (SDK) for PHP on Microsoft’s cloud services platform Windows Azure.
The idea is to make it easier for PHP developer to hook [...]
Rails 3 Gets An Upgrade With Merb
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009The Ruby on Rails open source framework gets a boost from former rival.
Source: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News)
The Ruby on Rails (RoR) open source framework is about to get more modular and faster — thanks to some benefits of its recent merger with Ruby rival Merb.
With the upcoming RoR 3 release, Rails will be poised [...]
