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Sun Microsystems on Thursday at the LinuxWorld conference in New York City plans to emphasize its support of application development for Linux through a commitment to tools and a new online community.

Several years ago Microsoft developed a new programming language named C#. To go along with the new language, Microsoft also introduced a new technology termed CLR, Common Language Runtime, which among other features allows programs written in different languages to interact with each other much more easily than was previously possible.

Open-source spells doom for Oracle, DB2 . . . . . . Sybase and other general-purpose databases, predicts Tim O'Reilly.

PeopleSoft may be spending its nights tossing and turning about a hostile takeover by Oracle, but maybe Oracle should be the one losing sleep. At least that's what O'Reilly & Associates Chief Executive Officer Tim O'Reilly believes.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is working with a number of industry partners including Oracle Corp., Macromedia Inc. and Zend Technologies Ltd. to support the use of scripting languages in its Java platform.

If you're trying to get a handle on wireless networking, you might be interested in a new publication from O'Reilly & Associates Inc. called 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide. Penned by Matthew S. Gast, the book offers detailed information about how businesses, homes and organizations can benefit from, deploy and maintain wireless networking.

Telecommunications equipment giant Lucent Technologies Inc. last week introduced a new tool it says will help companies protect their DNS infrastructure from hackers.

With its footprint in nearly every corner of the Internet and computing industry, the collaborative development model called open source that spawned Linux and the Apache Web server is on the ropes, criticized publicly by its foes as unworkable, weighed down by internal strife and bruised by a dragging economy. But the latest troubles for open source have not stopped its supporters from forging ahead to try to make the model viable for large businesses. That is the promise of the 3rd Annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention, which begins tomorrow in San Diego, California

The first conference dedicated to peer-to-peer computing kicked off in San Francisco this week. Absent from the O'Reilly Peer to Peer Conference was Napster, the music file sharing service that has done much to popularize peer-to-peer (P2P) computing.

How do companies find open source developers? LinuxWorld looks at the online collaboration portals and exchanges which are commoditising open source development and giving employers a quick, efficient and effective way to employ the right person for an open source job.

The aquisition by Caldera Systems of SCO has the potential to split the open source community. Hence, Caldera needs to merge open source and proprietary product lines without betraying its roots in the Linux community.