Oracle revises plan to shut down Project Kenai

Java.net is the destination for projects being moved off the Kenai hosting site set up by newly acquired Sun

Microsoft offers Visual Studio 2010 release candidate

Both the Visual Studio 2010 IDE and the accompanying .Net Framework 4 programming platform are being readied for a late-April launch

Microsoft moves on MVC Web apps platform upgrade

Second release candidate for ASP.Net MVC 2 provides performance tuning improvements as well as bug fixes

Moonlight 3.0 preview offered for rich Internet apps

Next version of Silverlight technology for Linux is in development

Rails 3.0 beta features merger with Merb framework

Ideas from the Merb framework have been incorporated into the popular Web framework, resulting in speed and performance improvements

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