Date: Tue, 8. February 2011 08:23:47

RickJWagner writes "OSGi is a Java framework that's designed to simplify application deployments in shared environments. It allows applications with differing dependencies to run side-by-side in the same container without any deployment time contortions. The end result is that your application that needs FooLib v2.2.2 can run right beside my application that needs FooLib v1.0, something not often possible in today's application servers." Keep reading for the rest of Rick's review. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Sun, 11. April 2010 15:00:01

Reuters - A video showing U.S. Apache helicopters killing 12 people, including two Reuters news staff, is painful to watch but an investigation into the attack was very thorough, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday.

Date: Fri, 16. October 2009 01:17:03

District 22 Democrats, a Southeast Valley group comprised of Gilbert, Mesa, Gold Canyon and Apache Junction, will hold an Oktoberfest from 6-8 p.m. Saturday at a private home at 2912 E. Lowell Ave., Gilbert.

Date: Sun, 17. May 2009 03:52:27

allenw writes "In a recent blog post, Yahoo's grid computing team announced that Apache Hadoop was used to break the current world sorting records in the annual GraySort contest. It topped the 'Gray' and 'Minute' sorts in the general purpose (Daytona) category. They sorted 1TB in 62 seconds, and 1PB in 16.25 hours. Apache Hadoop is the only open source software to ever win the competition. It also won the Terasort competition last year."pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/16/1316242amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/05/16/1316242"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/16/1316242amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OkE1uVY0by2P6u3NRdZTaa9ok5M/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OkE1uVY0by2P6u3NRdZTaa9ok5M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OkE1uVY0by2P6u3NRdZTaa9ok5M/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/OkE1uVY0by2P6u3NRdZTaa9ok5M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ZLgsO39v-0U" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 19. July 2010 04:17:19

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Date: Thu, 9. December 2010 20:07:11

iammichael writes "The Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee due to a long dispute over the licensing restrictions placed on the TCK (test kit validating third-party Java implementations are compatible with the specification)." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Wed, 4. May 2011 17:57:00

Oracle has subpoenaed the Apache Software Foundation in connection with its ongoing intellectual property suit against Google, the open-source group said Wednesday.

Date: Thu, 29. January 2009 15:06:33

nandemoari writes "After flirting with open source development for some time, Microsoft has made another step towards real commitment with the release of source code for Web Sandbox, a program used to test and secure web site content. The Sandbox source code will be released under the Apache 2.0 license, an open source license agreement allowing the content creator to maintain copyright while permitting others to develop the product for their own use. Microsoft has gradually been increasing their involvement with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) since 2008 when they agreed to fund development of certain ASF initiatives."pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/28/188254amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/28/188254"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/28/188254amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TLHdJJIvVERNTvBlRpZuoS1pwVs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TLHdJJIvVERNTvBlRpZuoS1pwVs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/WRsYsNJ4NDI" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 21. January 2009 20:50:18

PC World - Microsoft for the first time is contributing code to an Apache open-source project, continuing the company's softening of its attitude toward open-source software and the community that supports it.

Date: Sat, 10. January 2009 00:50:00

AP - As of Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, at least 4,223 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.