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29 Oct 2007
#18835
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The Outlook for Open Source from Sun's Perspective
Project Leaders Provide Updates on their Efforts
Sun recently convened an Open Source Worldwide Panel hosted by Ian Murdock, the company's chief operating systems platform strategist, that considered the future of Open Source technologies. Panels were also held on PostgreSQL, Project OpenJDK, Sun's Image Package System and OpenSolaris.
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29 Oct 2007
#18867
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Downloads of OpenOffice.org 2.3 Reach for Million Per Week
Sun Now Offering Suite with Java Auto Updates
Since OpenOffice.org 2.3 was released in September, downloads have skyrocketed to nearly a million per week and this number could continue its rise with Sun offering the free download to users receiving regular Java updates.
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29 Oct 2007
#18863
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The Present and Future of Open Source
James Gosling Shares His Views
For James Gosling, the important thing about open source is community engagement. At least that's what he told Tim Scannell in an interview for InternetNews.com. "A lot of our customers and the people we work with are just really smart and really good people," he continued. Gosling was careful to position Sun as a "supplier to other technology companies," which puts the corporation squarely in the business of supplying the infrastructure that underlies numerous applications developed by others.
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29 Oct 2007
#18908
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Latest Available NetBeans Build: Version 6.0 Beta 2
Released Under Both GPL2 and CDDL.
NetBeans latest build, NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2, comes bundled with MySQL and PostgreSQL drivers, and adds improvements to Ruby code completion and Woodstock 4.1 Build 14. The Java-based integrated development environment (IDE) is now dual-licensed under GPL v2 with ClassPath exception and the Sun Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) license.
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29 Oct 2007
#18872
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Sun Report Builder (SRB) Extension Enhances OpenOffice.org
Upgrades Base's Reporting Features; Documentation Lacking
Dmitri Popov's article entitled "Sun Report Builder: Better reporting in OpenOffice.org" focuses on the improved utility provided to Sun Report Builder (SRB) in its new extension, which is a result of collaboration with Pentaho.
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29 Oct 2007
#18907
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McNealy Identifies Advantages of Open Source Technology
Sharing Technology is Beneficial to All
There are some distinct advantages for open source technology, said Scott McNealy, speaking at the NICSA Technology Summit 2007 in Las Vegas. The Sun Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of Sun Federal, Inc., said sharing of technology is beneficial to providers and users if it is done correctly.
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29 Oct 2007
#18832
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Project Open Provisioning Toolkit (OpenPTK)
New Java.net Community Project for Identity Management
Project Open Provisioning ToolKit (OpenPTK) is an open toolkit bridging specialized user interfaces and access points to identity solutions. This java.net community project launched earlier last month with the release of OpenPTK version 1.0 that comes with a consumer Java API, web services (.wsdl), HTML Taglibs and JSR-168 portlets with user self-service, administration and command line interface (CLI) examples.
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