BEA Systems -- a company long committed to the Java programming language -- plans to support alternative scripting languages in upcoming products.
Apple Computer said Wednesday in Australia the updated desktop and server versions of its operating system, dubbed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, would be available Friday, 29 April.
Big companies are warming up to open-source database software, according to a new study.
Oracle has started shipping final versions of its "grid" database, a product launch that could spark more competition among database providers.
Sun Microsystems will create an open-source project around its Solaris 10 operating system by the end of the year, company executives said Monday.
Oracle's upcoming 10g database is intended to stave off competition from Microsoft in the midsize-business market, Oracle executives said Thursday.
Sun Microsystems is reluctant to make Java source code available through an open-source model because it would encourage incompatible versions of the software, Sun's top software executive said.
Oracle claims its Application Server 10g is the first to be able to take advantage of clusters of commodity hardware, an architecture that could make data centres far cheaper to run.
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