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Using Open Source in your Business: Myths and Clarifications
A white paper “10 Myths About Running Open Source Software in Your Business” was released by ActiveState. It promotes rational approach to open source software and refutes some common misconceptions about its quality, its usage and its place in today’s industry. The authors believe that open source adoption is inevitable but they advocate for a more structured approach to its implementation.
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Is AMQP on the way to providing real business interoperability?
AMQP came from inside of JPMorgan, thanks to John O'Hara. But his vision was bigger than just a new way to do things internally. The standard and open source technologies around it have been gaining momentum. Jeff Gould and others shed some light on where AMQP came from, who is driving it, and where it might be going.
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Parallel Mono
Recently we announced that Mono achieved full C# 3 support. Along with that comes support for Parallel LINQ. Parallel LINQ, part of Microsoft’s Parallel Extensions library, allows developers to quickly make queries execute across multiple threads.
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New Open Source project provides Object Oriented data access
Kasper Sørensen has created a new open source project at eobjects.dk called MetaModel. The project is a common domain model, query engine, and optimizer for different types of datastores, such as relational databases and flat files. MetaModel is a Java library that provides a fluent, object-oriented interface for SQL compliant queries.
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Mono 2 News Update
Marek Safar has announced that gmcs, the C# compiler for Mono, now has full C# 3.0 support in Mono 2. Meanwhile, Linear IR is offering significant improvements over the older Mono JIT.
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Should LINQ to SQL Go Open Source
More and more, LINQ to SQL is being seen as a temporary solution. With the impending release of ADO.NET Entity Framework, a lot of people are worried that development on LINQ to SQL will fall by the wayside. With Microsoft's long history of developing and discarding database access technologies, these concerns are not without merit. So this raises the question, "Should LINQ to SQL Go Open Source?"
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Web services orchestration engine Apache ODE 1.2 Released
The Apache ODE team announced this month the 1.2 release of the Apache ODE project. These releases includes many new features, including external variables,support for WSDL HTTP binding and REST-style Web Services advanced endpoint configuration, and a lot of small improvements and bug fixes.
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Interview: Christophe Coenraets Discusses Flex 3, AIR, and BlazeDS
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets discusses Flex 3, Flex Builder, AIR, BlazeDS, the move towards open source at Adobe, how to integrate Flex with existing applications, and the challenges of integrating Rich Internet Applications with search engines and built-in browser functionality.
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Eclipse Riena: Business-Oriented Client/Server Applications
The third milestone of Eclipse Riena 1.0.0 has been released, offering a first draft of new user-interface concepts and a new look-and-feel to make Eclipse-based applications more business-process oriented.
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IcedTea: The First 100% Compliant Open-Source Java
The IcedTea project has passed the Java Test Compatibility Kit, becoming the first 100% open-source licensed Java implementation to be completely verified as Java-compliant.
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Microsoft has Pulled Project Sandcastle for Open Source Violations
In response to community pressure, Microsoft has removed project Sandcastle from their CodePlex website. This is a temporary move while they contemplate Sandcastles future.
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On the Evolution of the .NET Collections
The collections in the .NET Framework have evolved significantly over the years. Taking advantage of Microsoft's new found openness, we show two versions of a familiar data structure, the hash table, in both .NET and Mono.
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Holly Widgets for GTK#
Last weekend a developer on the GTK# mailing list announced version 1.0 of a collection of widgets for Mono.
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Presentation: Configuring the Spring Container
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Framework. Topics covered include the philosophy behind Spring, configuring the Spring container, XML configuration, new XML configuration namespaces, Annotation-based configuration, automatic component annotation scanning, Spring JavaConfig, mixing configuration types, and Spring 2.5 new features.
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IcedTea Bridges Open-Source Gap with OpenJDK
It has been over a year since OpenJDK was officially released by Sun. The IcedTea project has been created to help remove encumbrances in its adoption by the open-source community.