Eclipse News Desk

Oracle Offers the EC a Deal: NY Post

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST

Oracle has offered to cordon off MySQL inside a combined Oracle-Sun to get the European Commission to approve its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun ahead of a hearing set for next Thursday, according to the New York Post. The paper, quoting two unidentified sources, describes the vague Oracle proposal as a “separate entity” that would put a “firewall” between MySQL and the rest of Oracle and says it could involve a separate board.

Virtualization Expo Call for Papers Deadline December 15

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:00:00 EST

Delegates will leave Virtualization Expo with a full understanding of the interaction between virtual servers and the rest of the data center infrastructure. Indeed our overall aim is to ensure that all attendees leave the Jacob Javits Convention Center with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging Virtualization in their own corporate datacenter, on the desktop, and elsewhere. If you wish to submit a speaking proposal for the 8th Virtualization Expo, April 19–21, 2010, then you can do so right here

Cloud Expo New York Call for Papers Deadline December 15

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:45:00 EST

Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength.

Move Over BI, Here Comes PI - Performance Intelligence

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:30:00 EST

"As companies such as MySpace continue to expand the richness of their site, the big thing is trying to seek a higher level of customer experience by replicating "beyond capacity" in a test environment, so that a company can see what it is exactly that they will need when traffic surges to peak levels and beyond, so that they know the "risk points" of their own success," Tom Lounibos, CEO of SOASTA, told SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan in an interview with Cloud Computing Journal on the day that SOASTA announced a significant test of the newly launched MySpace Music Videos hub using the Cloud.

JReport Supports Eclipse and Cloud Computing

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:30:00 EST

Jinfonet Software announces the General Availability of JReport 9.1, providing JReport Cloud and JReport Designer for Eclipse. JReport Cloud provides agility for rapidly and inexpensively re-provisioning infrastructure resources, greatly reduces the cost on hardware, software, and services when users pay only for what they use.

Microsoft Buys Eclipse Widgetry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST

Microsoft, which has been out wooing Eclipse developers lately, is buying the Teamprise-related assets of SourceGear LLC, which lets developers using the Eclipse IDE or operating on multiple operating systems, such as Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, to build applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. Terms were not disclosed.

Canonical Offers Free Cloudware

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:45:00 EDT

Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition, code named Karmic Koala, became generally available for free download Thursday. That’s the stuff that introduces Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), a k a Eucalyptus Software’s open source software, as a fully supported technology. The widgetry is based on the same APIs as Amazon EC2 and, as previously reported, lets businesses build private clouds.

Microsoft Nudges Eclipse Developers to Windows-Ware

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Microsoft was in one of its interoperability moods Wednesday and said that developers using Eclipse, the great open source IDE, will be able to target Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, its Azure cloud operating system and Silverlight. This renewed open source invasion – Microsoft’s no stranger to Eclipse although it’s not a member – is being spearheaded by two open source allies of Microsoft: Canada’s Tasktop Technologies for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and France’s Soyatec for Azure and Silverlight. Tasktop’s CEO, by the way, created Eclipse’s Mylyn project.

Amazon Web Services Database in the Cloud

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:45:00 EDT

Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today introduced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing users to focus on their application and their business. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use. Also announced today, AWS has lowered prices and introduced a new family of High-Memory instances for Amazon EC2. To get started using Amazon RDS, and other Amazon Web Services, visit http://aws.amazon.com.

Adobe & Salesforce Cut Cloud Deal

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Adobe in a strategic deal with Salesforce.com has put out a jointly developed, Eclipse-based Flash Builder for Force.com IDE - well, at least a developer preview - integrating their two platforms in the name of greater developer productivity in creating what they claim will be a "new generation" of rich Internet applications (RIAs) in the cloud - and some mumble about bringing the richness of the consumer web to enterprise cloud apps. Final delivery isn't scheduled until sometime in the first half of 2010. Meantime, see http://developer.force.com/flashbuilder where it warns against using the widgetry, which includes a beta version of Flash Builder 4 Premium, to build for production applications. No notion of pricing yet.

SpringSource Moving to Spring 3.0

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:30:00 EDT

VMware’s recent SpringSource acquisition, the Java widgetry folk, is moving to Spring 3.0, a major release of its vaunted Java development framework for building web and service-based applications. It announced a feature-complete release candidate Monday and expects to go to GA soon.

Oracle-Sun: IBM Reportedly Behind Delay

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Well, well, well, a little bird points to IBM as gumming up the works with the European Commission so Oracle and Sun can’t close their deal. Oracle of course picked up Sun after IBM’s negotiations with Sun failed and Oracle made IBM the intended target of the proposed acquisition in an ad on the front page of the Wall Street Journal last week so the idea that IBM is whispering in the EC’s ear makes perfect sense. And IBM has plenty of practice using the European Commission to attack its enemies. Just ask Microsoft. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claims the European Commission’s prolonged investigation of Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun, which isn’t expected to finish much before the agency’s mid-January deadline, is costing Sun $100 million a month in revenues and a weakened revenue stream will impact how many employees Sun gets to keep if and when the acquisition is approved.

The Curious Case of Build Release Management eBook

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:15:00 EDT

Build Release Management (BRM) is truly the next generation of IT Change Management. With BRM, you can get compliant and implement total process automation while continuing to work with whatever version control tool, testing application or IDE you are currently using. Download this essential eBook "The Curious Case of Build Release Management" and learn the basics of what BRM is, why users love it and why every application development team should consider it.

IT Personnel Hit Hard by New Flu Outbreak

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:54:00 EDT

IT presenters are being hard-hit by a rampant new disease: the F5 Flu, a variation of Death by Power Point. Read on to find out about transmission, symptoms, and most importantly, how to get vaccinated.

Exadel JavaFX Studio Plug-in for Eclipse 1.0.2 Released

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:30:00 EDT

We have released Exadel JavaFX Studio plug-in for Eclipse version 1.0.2 . The biggest feature in this version is error markers in the editor. Previously the compiler would run and report the errors in standard Eclipse console but wouldn’t put error markers in editor. How to get started? Three easy steps (I’m assuming you already have JavaFX SDK installed. If not, download and install it from http://www.javafx.com):

Zend Upgrades

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:00:00 EDT

Zend Technologies, the PHP commercializer, has put out a major new release of Zend Studio, its IDE for the PHP language. Designed to improve productivity for professional-grade web application development, Studio 7.0 supports the newly released PHP 5.3 language as well as tight integration with Zend Server and Zend Framework. Meanwhile, Zend Framework has been updated for the fifth time in two years.

Ingres Gooses its Database

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:15:00 EDT

Ingres, the open source database company, claims it’s achieved more than 10x performance gains running data on Intel’s Nehalem chip, well, at least some data. The breakthrough was made by the VectorWise project, Ingres’ collaboration with VectorWise, a spin-out from the database research team at Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), a Dutch research institute in mathematics and computer science, VectorWise has created a database engine that Ingres says taps the vector processing potential of modern microprocessors and makes the software faster by running multiple instructions simultaneously.

Open-Xchange Brings Sociability to Collaboration

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:00:00 EDT

With its latest software update, open source groupware innovator Open-Xchange is previewing the ability to integrate social network information. For example, adding LinkedIn contacts into the Open-Xchange address book.

Exadel Studio JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse New Version 1.0.1

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:30:00 EDT

Today we released Exadel Studio JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse version 1.0.1. Here is what’s new in this version: New icons (screen shots - this was a previous minor update) Updated menu actions (now available directly on the perspective) Compiled with JDK 1.5 for Mac OS support Applet deployment has been updated to create exactly the same deployment structure [...]

Annual Eclipse Release Now Available

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:03:00 EDT

For the sixth year in a row, the Eclipse community has delivered its annual release train on its scheduled date. Galileo, the 2009 release train, is the largest ever release from the Eclipse community, comprising 33 projects and over 24 million lines of code. Over 380 committers from 44 different organizations participated to make this release possible.

TOGAF Goes Eclipse

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:30:00 EDT

The new customizer contains all the content of TOGAF 9 in a structured and editable form, including guidelines, concepts, and checklists, as well as detailed work breakdown structures for the framework’s new and improved architecture development method (ADM).

Serena Software Offers Best of Both Worlds

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:00:00 EDT

Serena Software announces the latest version of its enterprise-ready solutions for software change and configuration management, Serena(R) Dimensions(R) CM and Express 2009 R1. This release optimizes the developer experience, adding multi-stream development and continuous integration capabilities to support Agile development and other iterative methodologies.

Veryant Helps Businesses Bridge the COBOL to Java Divide

Mon, 11 May 2009 10:47:00 EDT

Veryant has announced a new software release to help organizations lower operational costs by modernizing COBOL assets. This latest version of Veryant’s isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (APS) simplifies COBOL and Java integration, enhances the Eclipse-based development environment, and includes several improvements to make moving to isCOBOL from alternative platforms even easier.

New Eclipse Plugin Adds Cloud Hosting for Java, PHP and Rails Applications

Sun, 03 May 2009 21:00:00 EDT

Today Aptana announced Aptana Cloud Connect (v1.0), a free plugin for Eclipse-based IDEs that connects projects in Eclipse to Cloud Hosting and hosted application life-cycle services. If you are creating Web applications using Java, PHP or Rails, the Aptana Cloud Connect plugin for Eclipse lets you get all the benefits of scalable, on-demand Cloud hosting, with the ease of full IDE integration. More info at http://www.aptana.com/cloud

Building Private and Hybrid Clouds with Ubuntu 9.04

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:00:00 EDT

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) has been released today bringing highly interesting new features, specially in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization area. The new Ubuntu server distribution includes two complementary cloud tools, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus, so providing the technology required to build the three types of Cloud architectures, namely private, hybrid and public clouds.

PreEmptive Solutions Ships DashO Version 5

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:23:00 EDT

PreEmptive Solutions, the leading provider of solutions to protect, monitor and manage software development investments, announced the immediate availability of DashO Version 5, integrating application security with business performance monitoring for Java-based applications. This latest version of DashO, the most widely used obfuscation product for Java, includes major functional extensions offering improved application security, extended support for emerging enterprise and mobile frameworks, and the ability to monitor application adoption and end-user behavior.

Managed Methods SOA Journal Launched on Ulitzer

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:00:00 EDT

Managed Methods develops and sells versatile and cost-effective solutions products for monitoring Web services and managing service-oriented architectures. Our focus is providing practical tools that enable visibility and management of Web services operations in the production environment. As an organization, we offer the following value: IT Operations Monitoring Experience, Focus on Product Flexibility and Value, Customization Support, Customer-driven Development, and Flexible Licensing.

Eclipse.Org Releases Swordfish Next-Generation ESB for SOA

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:00:00 EDT

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the first release of Swordfish, a next-generation enterprise service bus (ESB) that provides the flexibility and extensibility required by enterprises to successfully deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategy. Swordfish is based on the OSGi standard and builds upon successful open source projects, including Eclipse Equinox and Apache ServiceMix.

Deutsche Post Spin-Off to Bring Eclipse App Development to the Cloud

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EDT

Deutsche Post spin-off Sopera GmbH has waded into the cloud game with what it calls a next-generation application development platform. The company’s Eclipse SOA initiative offers a platform in Eclipse, the IBM-started open source IDE, for building service-oriented architecture (SOA) programs. It will include a new service registry/repository, integrate process orchestration engines, and provide integration between the Eclipse Swordfish (SOA Runtime Framework) and the SOA Tooling Platform (STP).

Aptana Journal Launched on Ulitzer

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:15:00 EDT

Aptana Journal launched today on Ulitzer. Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more, at www.aptana.com. The editor of Aptana Journal, Kevin Hakman is Director of Evangelism for Aptana, Inc., makers of the popular Aptana Studio web development suite. As early as 2001 Kevin was pioneering AJAX web applications via General Interface, a full AJAX development and GUI toolkit which he co-founded, and later sold to TIBCO Software in 2004. Kevin is a contributor to AJAXWorld Magazine, and has spoken at numerous AJAX industry events.

SOPERA Introduces Next-Generation Application Development

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:00:00 EDT

SOPERA makes open source SOA software for the cloud. Designed from a customer perspective – SOPERA was spawned from Deutsche Post – its SOA software is the open source equivalent to suites from the likes of IBM, BEA, Oracle, Software AG. Deutsche Post spin-off, SOPERA GmbH, has announced an initiative that will change how businesses build and use software applications – especially those suited for cloud computing.

Aptana Unveils Cloud Integration for Java and Eclipse

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:45:00 EDT

Aptana has announced the immediate availability of Java support in its application hosting and lifecycle management service, Aptana Cloud Connect. Aptana Cloud Connect is architected to integrate with both leading cloud hosting providers and Aptana Studio, the popular open source web development IDE that also plugs into Eclipse.

Aptana Unveils Cloud Integration for Java and Eclipse

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:10:00 EDT

EclipseCon 2009. Aptana, Inc., announced the immediate availability of Java support in its application hosting and life-cycle management service, Aptana Cloud Connect(TM). Aptana Cloud Connect is architected to integrate with both leading cloud hosting providers and Aptana Studio, the popular open source web development IDE that also plugs into Eclipse. By integrating directly with Eclipse via Aptana Studio, Aptana Cloud Connect delivers unprecedented efficiency for authoring, deploying and managing Java, Ruby on Rails, PHP, and other types of web applications running in cloud data centers.

Microsoft Piggybacks on Eclipse

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:15:00 EDT

A release candidate of Eclipse4SL has arrived. That’s the open source plug-in Microsoft commissioned from Eclipse Foundation member Soyatec, a French-based “open solutions” company, so cross-platform Silverlight-based rich Internet applications can be built with the famed open source Eclipse IDE and make use of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform.

Eclipse.Org Announces Latest PHP Development Tools

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:00:00 EST

The Eclipse Foundation announced a major upgrade to the Eclipse PHP Development Tools project. PDT is an open source development tool that provides all the basic code editing capabilities developers need to get started developing PHP applications. The focus of the PDT 2.0 release is to add support for the object-oriented programming features of PHP and to improve the overall user experience of the PDT environment. To support the object-oriented features of PHP, PDT 2.0 now includes:

Micro Focus Offers Micro Focus COBOL for Eclipse

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:00:00 EST

Micro Focus has announced the availability of Micro Focus COBOL for Eclipse, encompassing versions of Micro Focus' Net Express and Server Express solutions designed specifically for the Eclipse open source ecosystem. Micro Focus COBOL for Eclipse provides an integrated development environment across multiple platforms enabling organizations to save on development costs while increasing agility and productivity. Organizations are able to create the same development environment across Windows, Linux and UNIX, making it easier for programmers to move between languages

Building Better Phone Applications with SOA and Eclipse

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:50:00 EST

Only if you were on the dark side of the moon could you have missed the impact of the iPhone. Its sweeping success has brought mobile services into the mainstream. As the first device to convincingly integrate traditional phone capabilities with Web access, it highlights the multi-channel shape of things to come. The mobile Web is having its time in the limelight.

Did Google's Eric Schmidt Coin "Cloud Computing"?

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:00:00 EST

Much like “Web 2.0″, cloud computing was a collection of related concepts that people recognized, but didn’t really have a good descriptor for, a definition in search of a term, you could say. When Google CEO Eric Schmidt used it in 2006 to describe their own stuff and then Amazon included the word “cloud” in EC2 when it was launched a few weeks later (August 24), the term became mainstream.

MyEclipse 7.0: AJAX, SOA and Web Services

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:00:00 EST

Genuitec has announced the production release of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 7.0. The new release, built upon Eclipse 3.4.1/Ganymede, delivers a comprehensive environment for AJAX and Web Services in the Eclipse space. In addition, MyEclipse 7.0 is delivered on top of the Pulse Eclipse Management Platform. This platform allows users to customize and maintain their MyEclipse environments both at the individual and corporate level.

Sun Launches New OpenSolaris with OpenOffice and Eclipse

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:16:00 EST

There's a new release of OpenSolaris out – OpenSolaris 2008.11 – out a whole three weeks before the end of 2008. There was a 2008.05 release, aka Project Indiana, in May but that wasn’t as commercial or production-oriented as this one. Both run only on x86 machines, not Sun's own Sparc chip – at least not yet. New features in 2008.11 include Time Slider, a Gnome GUI that makes Sun's not-for-the-uninitiated Zettabyte File System (ZFS) functionality, like instant data snapshots, available to all users.