IBM releases second beta of software dev collaboration tool.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 02/01/2008
Microsoft prepares OOXML for second ISO vote.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/01/2008
A look at: Kaxaml 1.0, SubSonic 2.1, SapphireSteel Software, Subkismet.
- By Staff of Redmond Developer News
- 02/01/2008
Purchase of leading open source database maker could herald Sun's entry into new markets.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2008
Microsoft releases .NET 3.5 Framework library source code.
IBM announced last week that it would open up its Jazz.net development platform to developers. Jazz
Web developers who use the increasingly popular combo of the Ruby programming language with the Rails framework, better known as Ruby on Rails, now have an open source framework for providing and/or consuming Web services.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/23/2008
For the past 10 days, Sausalito, Calif.-based online document and storage hosting company Joyent struggled to get its online secure document collaboration service, Strongspace, back online.
Microsoft today followed up on its earlier promise to start releasing the .NET framework library source code for .NET 3.5.
IBM's new Rational Team Concert Express aims to make it easier for dispersed development teams to work together writing software and better track changes and contributions more efficiently
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/14/2008
TopQuadrant has added to its open Eclipse-based suite of solutions that enable semantic Web application development for the enterprise.
Matthew Szulik stunned analysts by announcing that he's stepping back from Red Hat CEO slot. Jim Whitehurst will step in as president and CEO while Szulik will remain chairman.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/21/2007
The inaugural Google Web Toolkit (GWT) conference in San Francisco featured a conversation with Joshua Bloch, Google's chief Java architect. He was interviewed by Greg Doench, an executive editor with Pearson Technology Group, which includes book publishers such as Addison-Wesley Professional, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, Sams and Peachpit Press.
Adobe Systems is planning to release the source code for the remoting and messaging technologies within its LiveCycle Data Services suite as a separately branded product called BlazeDS. A beta of the product is available now on the Adobe Labs developer portal.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/20/2007
Open source community projects and commercial software aren't necessarily adversaries. Some interactions have resulted in a positive outcome for all. One such instance is the KDE project's collaboration with Oslo, Norway-based Trolltech. Since 1996, Trolltech's QT toolkit has been used in the KDE Desktop Environment. The collaboration resulted in user-friendly desktops for Unix and Unix-like operating systems (such as Linux).