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The review of the papers of actuality Popular dance / weekly J2EE offered by Xebia.

Actuality editors / SSII

• HP who would buy back Bull who would buy back GFI or how to change employer twice in record time
• Idealx becomes OpenTrust or the borders of the economic model of SSL

Agility

• Exit of the beta of Continuum 1.1

The corner of technology

• Testing Will Challenge Your Conventions

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Actuality editors / SSII

HP who would buy back Bull who would buy back GFI or how to change employer twice in record time

Serial continues (Cf. our review of the papers of July 2nd on subject).
HP has never hidden its ambition of acquisitions of societies of services and/or of editors.
To buy back Bull would represent a golden opportunity to penetrate into the French market, into the count of the public sector and to make off in in relation to low price, the ex floret of French computer science.
Suddenly, if this scenario proved to be precise (but it has the straight face since Morgan Stanley is involved), the wage earners of GFI would include a famous firm.
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Idealx becomes OpenTrust or the borders of the economic model of SSL

Idealx, society known and admitted in the field of service in free software becomes an editor.
Of the admission of Olivier Guilbert, the CEO, the economic model of SSII in the field of the free is fragile.
Is it necessary to see a sign there before runner of the borders of the model Open Souce? Though rationally interesting and laudable, concept Open Source is maturing to become big with in the key, and it is unavoidable, some total changes of strategy (Cf. redemption of JBOSS by Redhat).
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Agility

Exit of the beta of Continuum 1.1

On July 25th of this year, the Maven team / continuum announced the exit of the beta first one of Continuum 1.1 the finished version of which is envisaged for in one and a half month. From memory, Continuum is a solution of uninterrupted integration developed by the community Maven. This version notably introduces a notion of profile allowing to define versions of Popular dance / Maven / Ant to be used during the build as well as many corrections of bugs. For a complete list of changes, here is the release notes. And for downloading, it is here. Congratulations to the team Maven / Continuum. F licitations l quipe Maven/Continuum.

The corner of technology

Testing Will Challenge Your Conventions

In this article, Tim Ottinger shows us that fact to set up an approach TDD (Test-Driven Developpment) brings or goes to add modifications in the way of conceiving and/or of developing plans. He notably recalls the problems of performances, or another another way of using the notion of "Private" .