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Oracle Corp. announced on Wednesday the availability of Oracle JDeveloper 10g

IBM Corp. on Tuesday will unveil its Autonomic Computing Zone, an online information resource featuring daily and weekly updates of information pertaining to autonomic computing.

Anyone who thought Microsoft Corp.'s settlement on Friday with long-time nemesis Sun Microsystems Inc. seemed surreal were in for another shocker Monday, when the Redmond, Wash., software giant made some of its source code freely available on the Internet.

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There will be no JBoss shadow conference at JavaOne this year. The JBoss Group LLC, the Atlanta company that last year hosted its JBossTwo event in conjunction with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s JavaOne developer show in San Francisco, has decided to discontinue its rival conference and take a booth at JavaOne.

These days, all the cool kids in Web design have abandoned table-based layouts in favour of div-based layouts.

IBM Corp. plans to further leverage the Eclipse open source tools platform as part of its developer tools strategy during the next 18 months.

Sun Microsystems Inc. on April 8 will make available an Early Access release of its visual development environment for Java, called Sun Java Studio Creator, Sun officials said on Monday.