Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus , which develops open source, cloud computing management software, has linked with a developer of scaling software for the Java programming language, Terracotta, the firms said Tuesday. According to Terracotta and Eucalyptus, the two will provide tighter integration between their respective software, and also engage in joint sales and marketing. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Terracotta's software is being used to manage Java applications within the cloud; Eucalyptus develops software used to manage private and public

This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies. They are generally the senior most person responsible for custom software development, database design, database administration, web development, etc. In a recent conversation with a fellow CTO, we lamented about the fact that while there's very active software development and web development going on in Southern California and West Los Angeles, yet there didn't seem to be as much of a community around it. I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years.

Los Angeles-based Stickam , a provider of live streaming services and a related online community, announced Monday that the firm is now providing support for streaming live video to Java-enabled mobile devices. The company explained that phones supported by the new software include the T-Mobile G1, BlackBerry, and other platforms. Tags: stickam live streaming According to the firm, StickAm Mobile gives users access to all of the features of the firm's web site, including both viewing and responding to messages in video streams. READ MORE>> ...Tags:

Los Angeles-based Webtide , which develops the popular Jetty Application Server for the Java programming language, has been acquired by Intalio. Jetty is very widely used in web servers and software applications, including HP OpenView, Zimbra, Hadoop, Google AppEngine, Oracle WebLogic, and other enterprise software. Tags: webtide merger acquisition intalio open source jetty jav Intalio announced the buy Tuesday morning, but did not disclose financial terms of the buy. Webtide was self-funded, and was headed by Adam Lieber, who has previously been at Gluecode and Mission

Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software has scored an OEM win at Adobe Systems, the firm said yesterday, for a software product for single sign-on. According to Quest, Adobe is using the firm's software to provide single sign-on to Adobe LiveCycle products in Java environments with Active Directory. Quest's software is being used by Adobe so users only have to login once to enterprise systems; Quest's software allows Java Active Directory is Microsoft's central user logon and authentication system. Financial impact of the OEM win was not diclosed.

Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Now up: Craig Ogg Co-Founder Freshly Grated Software former VP of R&D, Stamps.com Have had to make choices about platforms many times. PIM based on Java that I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum . The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing

San Diego-based VMIX Media , which is devleoping software for managing online video and other digital media, said Thursday that it has hired on Bill Curci as the firm's new Vice President of Marketing. Curci joins the firm from Sun Microsystems, where he was focused on product marketing of Java. Tags: vmix software online video executiv Curci has also served at Microsoft. VMIX develops a platform which is used by brands to manage their online videos.

Now a software engineer at Six Apart, Leah uses her experience with Pownce to develop large scale social applications for future Six Apart projects. Interviewee: Well, I was formerly a Java developer and I'd done Java for about three or four years and a little while in professional settings. There's nothing wrong with Java, I just like eh, time to try something new and I had heard a lot about Rails and I heard a bit about We talked about more than Pownce and Twitter in this interview. Leah Culver is a developer who launched many projects.

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. It's along sales cycle, but the beauty is that when you're done, you've got client software which a consumer can use, specialized for their device, and able to do cools things, things that you couldn't do if you didn't work directly with the carrier. So San Diego-based Intercasting (www.intercasting.com) is one of the companies which seems to have gotten some traction, and has deployed with Boost, Virgin, Sprint, and is in the process of deploying with Verizon and ATT.

Web Developer is a toolbar that resizes your browser to typical sizes that most people use, disable java script or caching, display image paths and dimensions, and a number of other things. So, for about $280 in software, along with all of the free and open source software, and many hours of reading and experimenting, you can start learning how to develop modern, data drive, interactive websites on your Intel based Mac. I first started messing around with HTML in DreamWeaver and Claris Home Page around 1999 to put up my own music website. But it was not until the last