Project Harmony debuted last Friday, appearing as a formal proposal on an Apache email discussion list. The proposal lists 12 founding members, including both U.S.-based and overseas developers active ...

In the years leading up to the dot-com bust, the Internet was unchartered turf to which countless entrepreneurs flocked in pursuit of easy money. Just like the Gold Rush of the Old West in the 1800s, ...

Saleor — a Poland- and U.S.-based startup that develops an open source headless e-commerce platform used to build online shops — has pulled in an $8 million seed-extension round led by Target Global ...

said Monday that it was moving into the open source software world in a big way. Sun has decided to release its Java desktop and mobile software for development under the “General Public License,” ...

Santa Clara, Calif. — Sun Microsystems’s offering of the Java platform via open source under the GNU General Public License is a “momentous” change, said Sun President/CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Monday.

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Open-source software company JBoss Group said Monday that it will provide consulting services for other Java-related open-source projects and will hire their lead programmers. The move is designed to ...

Representatives from IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. will meet in a week to 10 days time to discuss IBM’s proposal for creating an open source version of Sun’s Java technology, an IBM executive ...

The software giants of our time have moved into the open source community in ways that were never previously imaginable. Microsoft loves Linux, IBM bought Red Hat, Oracle became the steward of the ...

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 ...