In the AI developer boom, some of the most important battlegrounds are not glamorous models or splashy chatbots. They are the quiet pipes that keep modern coding tools fed and up to date.

The story of GraalVM in early 2026: a project settling into a quarterly cadence, tightening its support matrix, and—thanks to Oracle—being very explicit about what it is no longer going to be.

Apache Geode has been revived after a near shutdown. Geode 2.0 is positioned as a modernization reset, not a minor upgrade.

Red Hat on Tuesday introduced the Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, a co-engineered software platform that combines Red Hat AI Enterprise with NVIDIA AI Enterprise to help organizations deploy and ...

2026 will mark the transition from agentic AI hype to operational reality, as leaders consider how to deliver the breakthrough experiences and ROI promised by last year’s AI investments. To succeed in ...

If you haven't seen the latest Java developer productivity report from Perforce, you should check it out. Written by Perforce CTO Rod Cope and developer tools exec Jeff Michael, the "2025 Java ...

Microsoft on Tuesday introduced two new artificial intelligence agents, Researcher and Analyst, for its Microsoft 365 Copilot platform, expanding its use of generative AI to support complex workplace ...

The Eclipse Foundation is moving its headquarters to Belgium, the organization has just revealed. One of the world's leading open-source software foundations, steward of the Eclipse IDE, enterprise ...

Ol' Linus is at it again. Outspoken Linux creator Linus Torvalds last week, in his usual imitable style, blasted a volunteer developer for not fixing a problem and basically "fired" the guy from ...

The bigger they come, the harder they fall. In late August, Ford Motor Co. abandoned its Herculean effort to reach the summit of its five-year Everest Web purchasing project, scattering nearly 350 IT ...

Java 21 has arrived, and with it the latest implementation of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK). Oracle JDK 21 is a long-term support release (LTS) focused on serious performance improvements, ...

Oracle has announced the availability of a new Java-based application deployment technology that uses the Oracle GraalVM Native Image to run applications as native machine executables. The GraalOS was ...