Redwood Shores (ip-192.com): Java SE 7, the first release of the Java platform under Oracle stewardship, has been released. The latest incarnation of the platform independent programming language is the result of industry-wide development involving open review, weekly builds and extensive collaboration between Oracle engineers and members of the worldwide Java ecosystem via the OpenJDK [...]
Oracle: OpenOffice should be community based
Redwood Shores (ip-192.com): Oracle will no longer offer a commercial version of the OpenOffice application suite, the computer technology corporation says. Instead, the Redwood Shores based company plans to hand the code to the open source community. "Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications and the rapid evolution of personal computing technologies, [...]
NASA: First open source summit
Moffett Field (ip-192.com): An open source development summit hosted by NASA will bring together engineers, policy makers and members of the open source community. Participants will discuss the challenges within the existing open source policy framework and propose modifications to facilitate NASA's development, release and use of software. "Open source brings numerous benefits to NASA [...]



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