Lawyers and free software advocates are hammering out a new version of the fourteen year old General Public License, but they don't expect to finish their work until 2006 at the earliest.
Following in the footsteps of Virginia Tech with its "Big Mac" cluster, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced its own Apple-based supercomputer. The new Turing Cluster consists of 640 Apple Xserves, each with two 2 GHz G5 processors, and is expected to perform at about 5 teraflops.
Sift and clean your Java code with Agitar's Agitator 2.0, and stay inside the lines with ILOG's Rules for .NET. Also, jProductivity's Protection! Pro repels freeloaders from your Java code, and two new tomes talk privacy and security.
It's a small step for mankind, but if you must abandon a proprietary J2EE application server for an open source platform, you'd better walk into it with eyes wide open. Here's our guide for a successful migration.
Once you've made more money than you need, how do you pass the time? Two legendary developers volunteer their energy and resources to benefit the community. How about you?
A well-designed Java plug-in architecture gives Eclipse 3.0 much of its functionality. If your client-side software uses discrete modules, this technology could be right for you, too. Here's how it works.
