Sun organised their CommunityOne event today, and took the opportunity to also release a new version of OpenSolaris, after three years of development. Although things are not very clear (there's an announcement of the new release on sun.com, a new website on opensolaris.com, but no mention of this release on opensolaris.org!), this should be the result of Project Indiana lead by Ian Murdoch, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Will this make forget all passed difficulties?

Netbeans also saw a new release with version 6.1, providing faster startup times, support for the Spring web framework, tighter Mysql integration and further ruby/JRuby enhancements.

Virtualbox, also acquired by Sun recently, had a release last week.

Netbeans, the cross-platform (Linux, Solaris, Mac, Windows) IDE and development platform built by Sun on the Java platform, and initiallly focusing on Java development, but now also actively supporting Ruby and Ruby on Rails (and their equivalent on the Java platform powered by JRuby) and C/C++, has reached version 6. It is now available in several bundles, each with a specific focus: Web and Java EE (with Glassfish and Tomcat part of the bundle), Mobility, Java SE, Ruby, C/C++. The complete bundle, with everything included, is also available.

During the development phase of this release, Netbeans has received positive press when compared to Eclipse, but also for its first-class Ruby support with completion and refactoring.

And as mentioned above, it is also a platform on which you can build your own rich applications.

Time to get it and check it for yourself!