History suggests that if an open-source project is designed to leverage the energy of the development community and offers an architecture that supports virtually unlimited change and adaptability, it ...

The NetBeans community has released the latest build of its open source, Java-based integrated development environment (IDE) with, among other new features, a dual-licensing scheme. NetBeans 6.0 Beta ...

Sun has been placing increasing emphasis on open source activities. In November, it ended months of speculation by announcing that Java, its cross-platform development language, would be open sourced ...