eBay signs Joomla! Back-end

eBay has signed the Joomla! Contributor Agreement as part of its plans to build a cutting-edge social network for 16 000 employees, writes Network World.

Joomla logoI talked with the person responsible for the project, Oliver Ratzesberger, senior director of analytics platform at eBay and then chatted with Joomla's Ryan Ozimek. Between them, the report claims there was a trajectory of open source in the enterprise.

The auction company will be using Joomla as an 'Intranet-on-steroids' for employees that use the company's data analytics/data warehouse. The Joomla site won't be a front-end to the data warehouse as some news sites have reported. It will be a social network supplement.

Oracle and rival IBM say they will push engineering resources toward the OpenJDK environment, collaborating to help develop open-source Java SE, reports PC Mag.

Both companies say they will make the OpenJDK community the "primary location for open-source Java SE development," focused on the OpenJDK project, which includes the Java platform, language, Java Standard Edition, and the Java Runtime Environment.

"The Java community is vital to the evolution of the Java platform," said Hasan Rizvi, senior VP of Oracle, in a statement. "The collaboration between Oracle and IBM builds on the success of OpenJDK as the primary development platform for Java SE."

There were reports last week of Samsung's release of the Galaxy S' Android 2.2 Froyo update source code, but now, the source code has now been removed from download by Samsung, reports Device Mag.

Samsung had provided the Froyo update source code via its Open Source Release Centre. This release was thought to be a first step toward the release of the update for the series of Samsung Galaxy S smartphones such as the Fascinate, the Vibrant, the Captivate and the Epic 4G, which are available from the four major carriers in the US.

As reported from Phandroid, it has now been confirmed that the source code is no longer available on Samsung's OpenSource Web site. Samsung has not yet revealed the reason for this removal.