This is interesting, considering the competition (Microsoft) has been giving away Visual Studio Web Express, and is now giving away the Pro version to students.
The latest version of Adobe's latest proprietary Flex technology (Flex 3.0) is now available with the RTM of Adobe Air. If you like Javascript (I don't), this may be the way for you to move forward to developing "real" cross-platform apps ...
Ultimate++ is a C++ cross-platform rapid application development suite focused on programmers productivity. It includes a set of libraries (GUI, SQL, etc..), and an integrated development environment.
U++ looks like an interesting alternative to qt and wxWidgets as a cross-platform widget toolkit -- it has it's own IDE with graphical form design, etc.
The mesh is the foundation for a model where customers will ultimately license applications to their mesh, as opposed to an instantiation of Windows, Mac or a mobile account or a web site.
applications will be seamlessly installed and run from their mesh
one instantiation of a mesh object is as a local (shared, aka Live) folder on a PC. This same mesh object might be instantiated as a slideshow on a web site, and as preview and upload UX on a mobile device with a built-in camera.
A mesh object could also represent a range of cells in Excel
Live Mesh provides the building blocks to support the notion of groups, or communities (member lists) of people associated with a mesh object
The ability to open a mutually authenticated raw communications channel, to any device in a group, regardless of current location or network topology. This channel always works, by way of cloud relay if necessary, but will automatically and transparently take the cheapest and fastest possible network path.
reacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers attached onto physical objects, as well as for multi-touch finger tracking.
PureMVC is a lightweight framework for creating applications based upon the classic Model, View and Controller concept.
Based upon proven design patterns, this free, open source framework which was originally implemented in the ActionScript 3 language for use with Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR, is now being ported to all major development platforms.
Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.
Visual WebGui is another 'Web like Desktop' platform that offers an open source framework to develop applications that work in *both* DHTML/AJAX and Silverlight
Kaltura Community Edition is a self-hosted, community supported version of Kaltura's Open Source Online Video Platform. Following installation any site can gain comprehensive video and rich media functionalities including video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing and sharing. It is intended to solve all your video-related needs, and allow you to easily create your own rich-media applications - all behind your own firewall and on your own servers.
this datacenter systems market is more than $150b annually.
And in this datacenter market we build exceptional systems
storage, from our new flash based platforms to eco-efficient tape and archive solutions.
more than just naked components, they're engineered with remote management and monitoring, component redundancy, integrated virtualization, and on board storage and networking. That's why our margins are higher than the industry's
So, can anyone build a Sun storage device, or are Sun's "general purpose server parts" better (with better management and redundancy ...) ?
using a general purpose OS allows us to easily embrace specialized components (from flash memory to GPU's)
why am I paying you a million dollars?" I responded, "You can absolutely run it for free. You just can't call me on Christmas day, you'll be on your own." He gave me the PO.
Schwartz gives the strong impression of an IT company _without_ its hand in your pocket. It is a similar attitude and reputation, though with proprietary software, rather than services (for free software), that seems to have made Microsoft so wealthy in the late eighties and nineties.
Solaris OEM agreements with IBM, Dell, Intel, Fujitsu and HP are so important to our end customers - they know they'll never be locked in.
These open source platforms generate, alongside the services attached to them, over a billion dollars a year, making Sun by far and away the world's largest open source software company.
Hundreds of millions of dollars a year from open source Java alone!
Fighting free and open software, like fighting free news or free search, is like fighting gravity - and btw, gravity gets a lot stronger during economic downturns.
There is a robust, well-designed open source PBX Server called SipX that is primarily backed by Nortel (due to their acquisition of the creators, Pingtel).
"AIR for the iPhone" because this nice little hack, first created at an
iPhone BarCamp, wraps the Web view with a container. This container gives
the view access to APIs available on the device, that may not be available
yet via WebKit alone."
I don't think this will get you past the iPhone app store, but it should make it easier for non-Cocoa coders who want access to the accelerometer, geolocation and other on board functions that aren't available to pure web apps.
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TweetSharp is a complete .NET library for microblogging platforms that allows you to write short and sweet expressions that convert automatically to web queries and fly to Twitter on your behalf.