JBoss Inc's chief executive is urging Sun Microsystems Inc to resist pressure from IBM to open source Java, a move viewed by some as an attempt by IBM to take control of Java. Mark Fleury, whose organization ships the eponymous open source J2EE application server, spoke-out against releasing Java code saying Sun's control of Java, with certification, had helped Java's success.

DCE is short for Desktop Composition Engine which is the video-accelerated graphics engine in Longhorn which will be a part of the Aero User Interface. A few screenshots and video available here.

eCommerceLogic is working on a new programming language for Amiga that resembles Java and C#.

Rhys Weatherley has taken a month's sabbatical from pnet and during this time he created a new project under the DotGNU umbrella, libjit. This library implements Just-In-Time compilation functionality. Unlike other JIT's, this one is designed to be independent of any particular virtual machine bytecode format or language.

In an ideal world, all your code is packaged into a universal install script, with dependency checking, updating, and logging services handled automatically. Conflicts between resources required by different applications are resolved according to predefined policies. Site-specific configuration changes are automatically applied as part of the unattended installation, and tests are run across the environment to confirm that everything is good to go. This article shows you how the general tenets of autonomic computing are applied to software installation.

Here is a japanese tool called Madotate that performs similar to the prosposed Microsoft Task Gallery to be included in longhorn. More info and screenshot at NooFace.

A surprising breach appeared to open between leading Unix and Linux companies on Monday as Sun Microsystems' chief executive called Red Hat "a proprietary Linux distribution." The catcall was sounded in an eWEEK.com interview with Sun Microsystems Inc. President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz. Besides challenging Red Hat Inc.'s contention that it is the premiere Linux company, the remark casts the relationship of the companies into a more adversarial light.

This sample expands upon the GAPI series of articles by creating a playable game demo using the .NET Compact Framework. Elsewhere on MSDN, this article explores the problem of how to construct a single XML document from multiple documents. It focuses on XML Inclusions (XInclude), a general-purpose mechanism for facilitating modularity in XML.

Daniel Robbins, founder and "Chief Architect" of the Gentoo Linux distribution, has decided to call it quits in terms of being associated with Gentoo. This was met with quite a bit of shock from the Gentoo community and developers alike, as this move was quite unexpected. Daniel Robbins also proposed the setting up of Non-Profit Organization to handle future development. Initially, he wanted to serve in the board of this organization, but he later changed his mind.

Writing to text files or to the console in a C++ program? You might need to format some text data, and the C++ streams class includes some handy formatting features that allow you to do great things. Jeff Cogswell shows you how to use it to line up your text columns, right- or left-justify your text, and set the precision of your floating point numbers.

Linux is all about choice. Endless debates carry on each day, but a new company with a new distribution, Cobind, has a classic, but novel, approach: Do one thing, and do it well.

iPod's runaway success virtually transformed the firm. Revenues up; Jobs' big job now is to outrun competition. Both TheStar and NYTimes are discussing an apparent "focus shift" of Apple away from the personal computers market and towards the digital music business.

Symbian is expected to retain the top honors in mobile phone software through the decade, despite an emerging threat from Microsoft, according to a study from ABI Research.

One of the greatest advantages that *BSD has over other Unix variants is the cvsup/make world process. The cvsup/make world process allows you to update your system at any time.