Raising its stakes in open-source software, IBM plans to create an open-source project around Cloudscape, a specialized Java database, CNET News.com has learned. In conjunction with the LinuxWorld ...

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Rival open-source efforts to simplify development of Java software are inching closer together to battle a common enemy: Microsoft. Two open-source development-tool projects--Eclipse, backed by IBM, ...

Azul Systems, a company developing special-purpose hardware to help servers run Java programs faster, plans to announce Wednesday that it's won its first endorsement: a support deal from IBM Global ...

IBM’s reported interest in buying Sun Microsystems has Java and open-source community members expressing both hopes and worries about the implications of such a deal on the tools, applications and ...

IBM and Microsoft have announced the availability of a jointly developed solution for running the network deployment of IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) on Azure Linux-based virtual machines ...

Oracle and IBM officials took the stage together Wednesday to champion Java and stress that their own interests mandate continued vitality of the platform. Hailing a Java “renaissance,” Mark Reinhold, ...

IBM’s proposal to have the Java programming language offered under an open source format is puzzling a Sun official, who stressed Tuesday that the current licensing program ensures compatibility for ...

The Armonk, N.Y.-based vendor will be demonstrating the new resources at JavaOne 2004, which will be held next week in San Francisco. On its alphaWorks site, IBM showcases so-called alpha technologies ...

Bob Sutor, IBM's director of WebSphere software, told CRN Monday that IBM is not a part of a plan being hatched by Java tools vendors, including Sun Microsystems and BEA Systems, to set a standard for ...