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Open source tools to help manage your Cisco network
News In response, two TechRepublic members, Cstone and EjayHire, mentioned how open source tools have been a great help with administering their networks. Of course, the basic idea behind open source development and these types of communities is that...
[May 3, 2005, 12:00]
Open-source group broadens its reach
News The Eclipse development tools consortium gained momentum on Monday with the announcement of 13 members to its board of stewards and the introduction of three new open-source projects. By providing an open-source alternative that combines...
[December 16, 2002, 15:44]
IBM ejects Eclipse
News Eclipse, an open-source development tools organisation backed by IBM, plans to transition to an independent foundation by next month, a representative said on Tuesday. The transition from a consortium to an open-source organisation is a long...
[January 20, 2004, 15:35]
Eclipse welcomes new era
News Eclipse, an increasingly influential open-source development tools project, will kick off its first programmer conference next week amid strong industry momentum and lingering questions regarding its future direction.
[January 30, 2004, 10:15]
IBM and Sun bury the Java hatchet
News Two open-source development-tool projects -- Eclipse, backed by IBM, and NetBeans, initiated by Java inventor Sun Microsystems -- seek to make building Java software simpler by defining a common structure to link development tools.
[March 28, 2002, 11:06]
IBM open-source project to release tools
News Eclipse, a project backed by IBM to create open-source development tools, later this month will release an update to its technology designed to help link different programming tools. The development-tool project is creating a common structure, or...
[September 9, 2002, 14:11]
IBM fine-tunes Jazz open-source project
News Set to launch in June at Jazz.net, the project will be based on work from IBM Research and its Rational tools division around geographically distributed collaborative software development. The Jazz software is meant to enhance collaborative...
[January 31, 2007, 7:31]
Eclipse SDK
Downloads Open source software development project dedicated to providing a robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, industry platform for the development of highly integrated tools. The Eclipse SDK includes the Eclipse Platform, Java development tools...
[June 25, 2009, 16:43]
News Roundup: Linux Expo takes open source mainstream
News At Linux Expo in London companies showed off the latest additions to the open source arsenal, including tools designed to step up software development and software to make Linux more attractive for high-end servers and workstations.
[July 6, 2001, 12:57]
Sun drops out of Eclipse
News The Eclipse open-source project, founded by IBM in 2001, is an IBM-owned consortium that has gained the membership of several development tools companies over the past year. Both Eclipse and NetBeans are open-source projects that are creating...
[December 4, 2003, 8:15]
Eclipse ready to reveal desktop-delivery alternative
News The Eclipse software, which was originally developed by IBM, also provides a single "framework" that different development tools can plug into. The Eclipse foundation houses a number of development-related open-source initiatives not related to...
[June 22, 2004, 12:25]
Macromedia aligns with Eclipse
News Eclipse is an open-source integrated development environment that provides application developers with programming tools and reusable components. Macromedia said it would now refer to Flash as a "platform," indicating that recently announced...
[June 6, 2005, 11:05]
Fixing the bug fixers
Leader In the long-term, the $400,000 paid to Coverity and Symantec could be better spent funding the development of open-source bug analytic tools, and paying individual open-source bug fixers for their efforts.
[March 28, 2007, 18:13]
Mono Project aims to bring .Net apps to Linux
News Aside from the actual development effort, the Mono Project tools must be built in the open-source community without infringing on Microsoft's intellectual property -- which essentially means that developers must re-engineer the tools based on the...
[October 30, 2001, 10:23]
Eclipse steps out of IBM's shadow
News IBM is using the Eclipse software to provide a common foundation for its suite of development tools, giving a disparate product set a common user interface as well as a mechanism to share information.
[March 1, 2005, 10:20]
Zend sharpens PHP's enterprise focus
News Zend's business model is to give away an open source scripting engine, the software required to run PHP applications, and to sell products and services for a proprietary line of PHP development tools.
[January 10, 2005, 17:40]
Red Hat embraces embedded Linux
News The tools, themselves open-source, should greatly expand the ability of Linux programmers to easily and quickly move into embedded-system development. RHTED is an open-source integrated development environment (IDE) for software developers.
[February 1, 2000, 13:24]
A bad workman blames his (open source) tools
Blog The problem with open source software application development (if there is one) you might argue is that there are so many comparatively ‘ungraded’ tools out there that you can find yourself using a product that is not necessarily best suited to...
[December 13, 2009, 23:50]
Zend launches Eclipse plug-in
News Zend said it has created an add-on to the Eclipse open source development framework that will allow developers to use Zend's development tool with other Eclipse-based tools to write PHP-based Web applications.
[October 18, 2005, 15:00]
Why choose Linux for development?
News IBM also has tools for Java development on Linux and offers a general-purpose, open source IDE, Eclipse. Similarly, SGI maintains an open source project that supports a Linux port for MIPS and has produced several open source Linux tools, including...
[September 10, 2002, 10:19]
