Paul Krill

Oracle shipped a new version of the PeopleSoft Enterprise development toolset last month that highlights deployments with Oracle Fusion Middleware and features an SOA bent. PeopleTools 8.48 enables users to develop and maintain PeopleSoft enterprise applications. For the first time, the tools can be used to deploy applications with Oracle

Software to be formally introduced later this year will link the Ruby programming language and the open source Ruby on Rails Web framework to Microsoft

An update to Adobe

Expect the open-sourcing of the Java programming language to be done in incremental steps, with some pieces available by next June -- but not the entire platform, Robert Brewin, co-CTO of Sun Microsystems' software group, said.

Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are progressing with programming language research efforts aiming at high-performance computing (HPC) and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), respectively.

Members of the OpenAjax initiative, formed in February to promote the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web scripting technique, have generally agreed on a definition of AJAX that concurs with Wikipedia

Java development was expected to get a boost on Linux at the JavaOne conference held this month, with partnerships anticipated for including the Java Runtime Environment with Linux distributions, Sun officials said on May 4. Although the officials would not reveal who the Linux distributors would be, they said the intention is to distribute runtimes for Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE), with Linux so that developers do not have to obtain them on their own.

As it evolves, JavaScript will take its cues from the Python language, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, said at The AJAX Experience conference. JavaScript is a lynchpin of the popular AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technology for Web development.