Open Source Tools Fuel Web, Desktop Development

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jul 31, 2008 1:24 PM EDT
eWeek; By Darryl K. Taft
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The open source community has been awash with announcements recently, including a host of announcements at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). At OSCON, Sun Microsystems on July 23 announced the availability of the Sun Web Stack, an integrated enterprise-quality AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack for Solaris and Linux operating systems. Sun also announced that it is open sourcing the core components of the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 and Sun Java System Web Proxy technologies. Meanwhile, Sun and Joyent Inc. announced a collaboration aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of social applications for Facebook and OpenSocial environments. On the open source desktop front, on July 29, the KDE Community released KDE 4.1, the second feature release of the KDE 4 series.

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