Bringing Rational into the IBM fold will also give more momentum to IBM's open-source Eclipse project, which aims to foster interoperability among different Java-oriented tools, analysts said. IBM and Rational have been strategic partners since...
In addition to a Jeeves-branded browser, the company is also considering Jeeves-specific plug-ins for use with Firefox. Jim Lanzone, the company's senior vice president of search properties, termed that "the furthest out" of the topics under...
An ActiveX alternative, known as 'Plug-ins Future', is a joint effort between Mozilla, Opera Software, Apple Computer and plug-in makers including Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems. One project, which Hofmann deemed "experimental", is an extension...
Eclipse is an open source programming-tool project that long supported Java and now also supports PHP. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse, said: "Java and PHP compete at some level. They weren't interested in adding language features...
The move began what's expected to be about a year's worth of discussion and revision. It outlines several freedoms for collaborative software development, stipulating that a program's underlying source code may be seen, copied, modified and...
Also on Monday, Wind River plans to announce it's released 300,000 lines of open source code to Eclipse Foundation, a project for programming tools. The software should improve features for programming with the C or C++ languages, debugging, and...