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Oracle revises plan to shut down Project Kenai

2010-02-09T00:00:00Z

Java.net is the destination for projects being moved off the Kenai hosting site set up by newly acquired Sun

Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux

2010-02-09T00:00:00Z

Ksplice officially launched its no-reboot patching service for Linux servers.

Windows on the Mac

2010-02-08T00:00:00Z

Parallels Desktop 5 and VMware Fusion 3 get faster, smarter, and optimized for Windows 7, while Sun’s VirtualBox 3.1 lags behind

2010-02-09T15:49:44Z

Mozilla ends Firefox support for Mac OS Tiger

2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

Baring any last-minute change of mind, Mozilla will permanently drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 from future editions of Firefox.

Microsoft to drop Linux, Unix versions of enterprise search

2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

Microsoft will no longer offer Linux or Unix versions of its enterprise search products after a wave of releases set to ship in the first half of this year, the company announced in an official blog post Thursday.

Moonlight 3.0 preview offered for rich Internet apps

2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

Next version of Silverlight technology for Linux is in development

Rails 3.0 beta features merger with Merb framework

2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

Ideas from the Merb framework have been incorporated into the popular Web framework, resulting in speed and performance improvements

Oracle upgrades Eclipse free plug-in package

2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g better enables developers to build Java and Web services apps for the Fusion Middleware platform

What we know about Oracle Cloud Office, OpenOffice.org

2010-02-04T00:00:00Z

Oracle Corp. calmed the fears of tens of millions of OpenOffice.org users when it declared it would keep supporting the free open-source productivity suite following its merger with Sun Microsystems Inc.