While not a complete surprise, Sun Microsystems let loose with an interesting development today. At its JavaOne conference, Sun announced that it would open-source its Java platform.
Finnish cellular manufacturing giant Nokia has been experimenting internally with a cell phone based port of the popular Apache open source web server. Being both a technologist and a gadget buff, this naturally piqued my curiosity. However, this is a road frought with challenges. Of course, it sounds like really cool stuff, and I suppose …
Historically, one of the biggest knocks on open source software has been its lack of presence in the enterprise software space. We generally define “enterprise software” as software that solves some sort of problem faced by the enterprise (the business). A rapidly evolving product known as SugarCRM is single-handedly shattering that stigma, and putting some …