Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that TweetMeme, the innovative online application that tracks the popularity of links sent via Twitter, has subscribed to Sun's MySQL Enterprise database offering in order to keep up with the microblogging service's explosive growth.

Created in 2008 by pioneering Web 2.0 startup Fav.or.it, TweetMeme gives the rapidly expanding Twitter community a means of easily seeing and sorting the most popular links on Twitter. TweetMeme also provides a realtime search facility of fully expanded, qualified and indexed links so that users can get answers to queries about very recent events or news.

SATURN – or SysML-based Modeling, Architecture Exploration, Simulation and Synthesis for Complex Embedded Systems, is another EU FP7 project.

This is the Artisan Studio 7.0 version of the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM), as defined by EUROCONTROL and the United States FAA. It is the UML model for the globally applicable aeronautical data exchange specification, enabling the use of AIXM for a wide spectrum of aeronautical information services applications.

Progress moves internal development of FUSE(TM) and related products to the Forge in support of its Open Integration strategy BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 1, 2009-- Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global provider of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today launched FUSE™ Forge, a collaborative environment for developing open source projects based on Progress® FUSE™ products. The Progress FUSE product line includes productized versions of Apache ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, CXF and Camel. FUSE components are standards...

Artisan® Software Tools, the world’s largest independent supplier of industrial-grade, collaborative modeling tools for complex, mission and safety-critical embedded systems and software, has announced that Westinghouse Rail Systems Limited (WRSL) has extended its use of Artisan Studio to develop an automated Safety Integrity Level 4 (SIL4) validation process that has dramatically improved validation speed, resulting in a 70% reduction in its SIL4 validation effort.

Guest Article Sie entwickeln Software für Medizingeräte oder Software, die selbst ein Medizinprodukt darstellt? Dann wird Ihnen die Norm IEC 62304 zumindest dem Namen nach begegnet sein. Viele Entwickler stöhnen über die vielen Regularien: Da gibt es die Medizinprodukterichtlinie 93/42 und das Medizinproduktegesetz MPG. Dann sind Normen zum Risikomanagement (ISO 14971) und ggf. zum Qualitätsmanagementsystem (ISO [...]

I am very excited to announce the release of FishEye 2 and Crucible 2. Both of these products have undergone a complete UI makeover with improved usability and productivity features focused on agile development. FishEye and Crucible help you explore your source code and conduct code reviews that actually work.

After announcing the betas of both products at Atlassian Summit about a month ago, we had several hundred people download and try it, many of which provided us with valuable feedback. Check out the new features below and download the latest version to upgrade or try a free 30-day evaluation.

FishEye 2: Explore your sourceFishEye, our source code repository browser, has add a whole new dimension for looking at the activity in your repository by focusing on the people that contribute to your code and letting you follow what they are doing.

• View all activity - Keep tabs on the people and source code you care about.
• Follow people that matter - Follow any user or committer within your source code repository.
• Explore your source - Search, navigate and report on your source code from any browser.
• Collaborate with your team - Share source code with your team. Add code insight to your existing tools, like JIRA and Crucible.

Crucible 2: Code review that works!Crucible, our peer code review tool, has also taken a major leap forward introducing the concept of "iterative code review". Your development environment is constantly changing, and that should not to get in the way of an effective review process.

• Productive code review - Simple, fast review creation. Keyboard navigation, display preferences, inline comments.
• Fit your review process - Post-commit reviews from Subversion, Perforce, CVS, Git and ClearCase. Pre-commit from anything.
• Iterative reviews - Code. Review. Code. Review ... review is usually not the last step.
• Integrate with your toolset - Plays well with others. FishEye, JIRA, Eclipse, IntelliJ or roll your own with REST API or plugin framework.

Join us for a webinar If you would like to learn more, please join us for a product webinar on July 15, 2009. There will be two session both covering the following:

• Review latest features of FishEye
• Review latest features of Crucible
• Provide demo of both products
• Answer any questions you have

Register for a session now by clicking a time below:

Wed, July 15, 2009 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
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GPLv3 Licenses Quadruple in 2009, But GPL Projects Drop by Five Percent from 2008 Levels

Black Duck Software Analysis shows other license options gaining ground

WALTHAM, Mass., June 30, 2009, Open source license adoption trends indicate a new pragmatism in the open source community, as evidenced by increasing diversity in license types being chosen for open source projects.  Most notable was the increasing adoption of the GPLv3 license coupled with an overall five percent drop in the number of projects adopting the GPL license generally. The analysis was conducted by Black Duck Software, a leading provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software (OSS).

GPL licenses, sometimes referred to as reciprocal licenses, are used in more than 65 percent of open source projects evaluated by Black Duck. Growth in the use of the GPLv3 license increased at a 4X rate year-over-year, with 9,500 GPLv3 licenses in use in 2009, compared to 2,345 in 2008.

Despite strong growth in GPLv3 adoption, the percentage of projects using GPL variants dropped from 70 to 65 percent, demonstrating that open source software licensing is becoming more diverse, reflecting renewed pragmatism on the part of open source developers and consumers.  A recent indication of this shift is the growth of the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL), an OSI-approved license, which is now the tenth most popular license in the Black Duck Software Knowledge Base.

The GPLv3 license this year moved past the Mozilla, MIT and Apache licenses to the number five spot behind BSD. Black Duck estimates that the current rate of adoption will see GPLv3 pass BSD in about six months. Many large projects, including Linux, JBoss and Hibernate, have chosen to remain with GPLv2.

“With more than 1,500 different open source licenses in use, it is possible for software developers to choose a license that closely reflects their intentions for the use of their software,” observed Peter Vescuso, executive vice president of marketing and business development, Black Duck Software. “Many developers are selecting licenses that are less restrictive, a move that underscores the broader adoption and value of open source in today’s multi-source development environments.”

The top 10 open source licenses in use are:

License Percentage Rank
GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 50.06 GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1 9.63 Artistic License (Perl) 8.68 BSD License 2.0 6.32 GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0 5.10 Apache License 2.0 3.91 MIT License 3.80 Code Project Open 1.02 License 3.35 Mozilla Public License (MPL) 1.1 1.25 Microsoft Public License (MS-PL) 1.02 Source: http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss

An additional trend in the growth of open source confirms how licenses are being employed to support revenue-based business models. From straight open-source licensing to dual licensing, more businesses are moving to ”open-core” licensing approaches. Matt Aslett, Enterprise Software Analyst for The 451 Group, says, “Open-Core Licensing – offering proprietary commercial extensions around an open source core – has become a popular strategy for generating revenue from an installed base of open source users.” Examples of projects embracing this approach include MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Continuent.

Black Duck spiders the Internet collecting open source and other downloadable code into a repository called the Black Duck KnowledgeBase, a database of more than 200,000 open source projects with tens of billions of lines of code from over 4,100 unique Internet sites. Daily updates of license statistics can be found at http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss

To listen to a podcast discussion of open source licensing trends with Tim Yeaton, CEO of Black Duck software, visit http://ducks.blackducksoftware.com/~webmedia/_Podcasts/BDS_Tim_Yeaton_6_29_09.mp3

About Black Duck Software

Black Duck Software is the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development and maintenance costs while mitigating the risks and challenges associated with open source reuse, including hidden license obligations, security vulnerabilities, unsupported open source and version proliferation. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Hong Kong, as well as distribution partners throughout the world. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Black Duck, Know Your Code and the Black Duck logo are registered trademarks of Black Duck Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Koders is a trademark of Black Duck Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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Mono 2.4.2 has been released, this is a maintenance release for Mono 2.4 and contains over 150 bug fixes. It can be downloaded from our downloads page.

This version is the first version to integrate Microsoft's open source ASP.NET MVC stack.

Check the release notes for more details.

Danfoss Electronic Controls & Sensors, one of Denmark's largest industrial companies, today announced it has selected Sun Microsystems' MySQL database to help power its air conditioning software application AKM, Adap-Kool Monitoring. The AKM software enables commercial facilities, such as grocery store staff, to monitor and control temperature levels inside store premises. Embedding MySQL into AKM will enable Danfoss to increase the number of concurrent users of the application, while maintaining a high level of availability and performance.

We created a special piece of collateral to hand out at our booth at last week's Enterprise 2.0 conference. Confluence 3.0 has some great, new social features, but rather than tell the story through a typical sales datasheet, we invented Bill and John, two cartoon characters trying to overcome a few coworker TMI issues — too much information. Fortunately, Confluence-man comes to the rescue.

Let us know what you think! Excelsior!

iWay Named for Demonstrating Leadership and Innovation in SOA-Enablement

Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite is the most widely used commercial AJAX toolkit according to a survey on the Ajax development and JS libraries, prepared by Simone Chiarreta, an Italian .NET developer, architect and Microsoft MVP.

The survey was focused on the adoption of the AJAX technology among web developers, as well as the most used toolkits for development of AJAX applications. More than 2500 developers took the survey, and 71.4% of them stated that they are using jQuery, second comes the Ajax Control Toolkit with 58,8%, followed by the core ASP.NET Ajax library, which is used by 44,8%. About 75% of the respondents say that they are using the AJAX technology either in production, development or prototype.

The survey results show that Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX is the most used commercial toolkit for building AJAX applications in the .NET space. 15,6% out of all participants in the survey stated that they prefer developing with RadControls.

Detailed information on the survey results

A huge congratulations goes out to Walton Smith and team at Booz Allen Hamilton for their winning the Open Enterprise Innovation Award at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this week.

Booz Allen's Hamilton is a 90-year-old consulting firm with over 20K employees. Walton helped create Hello.bah.com, a platform combining 'best of breed enterprise 2.0 tools' including Confluence. It's a great example of a large, mature firm can innovate with new ways to communicate, collaborate and share knowledge.

Stephen Walling at ReadWriteWeb also gives a great summary of Walton's Enterprise 2.0 presentation in Boston on Thursday. If you missed it, Walton also presented hello.bah in our March Voice of the Customer webinar which you can watch on Atlassian.com/tv.

Jadeite is a new form of documentation for Java APIs.

BWToolkit is an Interface Builder plugin that contains commonly used UI elements and other objects designed to simplify Mac development.

JNAerator (pronounce ‘generator’) simply parses C & Objective-C headers and generates the corresponding JNA and Rococoa Java interfaces (it also has a very limited support for C++). This lets Java programmers access native libraries transparently ...

A UML modeller based on GWT