Stories about: Evans Data

Open-source solutions used to be adopted quietly by company boffins who snuck in an Apache Web server or an open-source development tool suite under the philosophy "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission" (not to mention "It's easier to do it with open-source tools than to get an IT budget").

Web 2.0 software developers ranked Microsoft's MSN/Live Windows developer program higher than competing programs offered by Internet leaders Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Facebook and PayPal, according to results of an Evans Data report released Monday.

Nokia has begun publicly discussing what some are calling the mobile phone maker's biggest product response yet to the Apple iPhone -- a device with the code-name "Tube".

Officials from Google and IBM detailed efforts Tuesday to extend their platforms to developers via APIs and Web 2.0 technologies. But a Sun Microsystems executive cautioned that openness offered via forums such as blogs can have negative consequences if not managed well.

In a bid to drive open source adoption in Asia, the Eclipse Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation have joined forces for the first ever open source community conference to be held in the region from November 26-30, 2007.

When it comes to Web 2.0 developer programs, eBay is tops, based on an Evans Data survey detailed this week.

Krugle aspires to be the Google of software code search, even referring to itself as a verb. And recently, Krugle has started to become the go-to search site for open-source developers, partnering with key websites, including SourceForge.net, the leading repository for open-source software projects, to embed Krugle search. Krugle also announced a similar partnership with CollabNet, a community of 1 million developers.

Filling out its open source middleware stack, JBoss has unveiled its ESB (enterprise service bus) as well as revealing core technologies planned for an upcoming application server upgrade.

Red Hat has unveiled its first integrated open-source application stack based around the JBoss application server it acquired this summer.

The Eclipse Foundation at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference this week plans to tout the progress of open source projects focused on desktop application development, PHP (Hypertext Processor) and embedded Java.

IBM has expanded its open-source strategy beyond Linux by targeting eight new technology areas where it will focus attention going forward.