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Our August feature story is about the new Novell Forge website and how it can become a powerful tool for your development projects. In addition to the Novell Forge article we also cover Sun's recent OpenJDK announcements, news from openSUSE and information regarding our new Developer-focused Blogs at the Cool Blogs site.
An updated and revamped Novell Forge is now available (in beta currently) at http://developer.novell.com/forge for you to begin using. Many of Novell's solutions now require customization to implement (vs ready-to-deploy shrink-wrap software). This customization often implies a prolonged sales cycle where the bottleneck is the implementation phase or due to a lack of specific components required to fill-out the solution. By collecting and organizing all policies, configurations (i.e. discrete solutions) into a "Collaborative Policy Forge" environment we are set-up to reap the following benefits:
1. Decreased Sales Cycle 2. New channels of business 3. New Solution offerings
Jump to http://developer.novell.com/forge for much more regarding the benefits of the new Forge and tutorials on how to best use and manage your Novell Forge projects.
A lot happening over at opensuse.org recently as the project celebrated its 2nd birthday. This posting covers some of the highlights of the project's second year (http://news.opensuse.org/?p=105 ). Some pretty impressive accomplishments in a very short time!
A very easy to use web interface has been added to the Build Service at opnesuse.org and you can try it out at http://build.opensuse.org/ . Easy to use and you can build your own Linux distribution right from this interface.
Also the openSUSE team announced the first Beta release of openSUSE 10.3. There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these are a whole new and greatly improved package management stack (libzypp), significantly faster boot time, parts of KDE 4, a 1-CD KDE Install and a 1-CD GNOME install, beautiful green artwork, a new One-Click Install technology that integrates with the openSUSE Build Service and much more
At LinuxWorld recently Sun announced OpenJDK Community Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) License. This license will enable developers to validate the compatibility of their OpenJDK contributions and to brand them as "Java Compatible". For the complete text of the announcement go to http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-08/sunflash.20070809.1.xml and for more information and to get involved in the OpenJDK project go to http://openjdk.java.net/.
The Cool Blogs area on the Cool Solutions website has recently added a Developer topic and you can jump on over there (http://www.novell.com/coolblogs/?cat=35 ) for the latest information regarding the Novell Developer Community, Novell developer-related topics or other up-to-date developer discussions. We are also looking forward to your comments and ideas about the topics covered.
The blogs will be posted by members of the team here that focuses on providing Developer-related content for the Developer Community.
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