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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks announced that Red Hat’s middleware team would be merging with the IBM middleware team. Some may have wondered why a decision like this took so long, given ...