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Red Hat has settled patent infringement claims brought against it by Firestar Software and DataTern, the company announced Wednesday.

No one loves to pay crazy per-user licensing fees, not to mention 15- 22 per cent annual support residuals. (And no one loves the endless, mind-numbing meetings with non-technical financial folks trying to pry budget for these tools from their clenched fists.) So today we're going to discuss tools that are free. However, we are not naming them to this list of "great" tools simply because they cost nothing. These are some of the best lesser-known tools out there.

Aras was a small, struggling software maker that stirred up a hornet's nest early last year, when it made a pair of seemingly contradictory decisions.

Appcelerator has updated its rich Internet application platform to integrate with the Google App Engine.

Linux, Apache, JBoss, and other open source technologies are kicking sand in the faces of the big boys on the operating system and middleware tiers, but when it comes to the database world, open source is still a 97-pound weakling. And despite some heady growth numbers, that's not likely to change anytime soon.

As senior director of platform technology at Microsoft, Sam Ramji is positioned uniquely at the nexus of proprietary and open source development models. Here's how Ramji sees open source and proprietary development models evolving.

Linux operating system and open source middleware vendor Red Hat last week reported more than 30 per cent growth in its total revenue and its critical subscription revenue for its fiscal year 2008.

As CEO of EnterpriseDB, Andy Astor endeavors to raise the profile of the PostgresQL open source database to the level of prominence he believes it deserves. But when it comes to capitalizing on an open source project's potential, there is much debate regarding the appropriate business model to employ. Here's how Astor sees the possibility of coexistence between developers and capitalists unfolding.

EnterpriseDB has launched two new versions of its open-source database, Postgres. The company has introduced Postgres Plus and Postgres Plus Server.

11 leaders from the open source and vendor communities discuss the current open source climate and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead.

11 leaders from the open source and vendor communities discuss the current open source climate and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead.