Microsoft confirmed on Friday that open source GNU code landed in its utility software used to install Windows 7.
The White House's recent deployment of the Drupal open source content management system for its Web site has created a stir among industry observers.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/29/2009
CollabNet will let development teams using its TeamForge application lifecycle management platform to manage and model a project's scope and timeline through a single user interface.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/27/2009
SpringSource, now a subsidiary of VMware, unveiled the latest version of its Java development framework, along with a new developer edition of its Apache Tomcat-based application server.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/19/2009
Microsoft's open source leader looks back on his tenure in Redmond.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2009
The mystery of where Sam Ramji is headed is over. The former senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft has led Redmond's open source efforts since 2006. Now Ramji is reuniting with his erstwhile BEA Systems colleagues to head product strategy and business development at Sonoa Systems.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2009
Since announcing the Microsoft Interoperability Initiative early last year, we've seen the company move in a consistent and tangible direction toward greater openness, cooperation and interoperability.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2009
The WebsiteSpark program offers a way for Web professionals and smaller companies to consider Microsoft technologies in addition to open source platforms.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/24/2009
Intel this week launched a new program it hopes will spark the growth of a multiple developer communities around devices based on its low-power Atom processors which have become popular components of rapidly growing netbook PCs.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/23/2009
Alfresco, a leading provider of open source enterprise content management software, last week launched a developer program for those looking to build ECM applications that can run in the cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/22/2009
Novell released MonoTouch 1.0, a tool designed to let programmers who use Microsoft's .NET Framework develop applications for the popular iPhone and iPod devices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/14/2009
In a bid to attract more developers to its Berkeley DB open-source embeddable database, Oracle released two upgraded versions with new APIs for simplifying application development and for the first time, support for Microsoft's C# and .NET Framework.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/14/2009
Microsoft's new CodePlex Foundation aims to encourage commercial software companies to collaborate and contribute to open source communities.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/10/2009
The European Commission's decision to investigate Oracle's plan to acquire Sun Microsystems is focused largely on the future of the open source MySQL database.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/08/2009
Big Iron shops have two options to run their Windows applications on System z: emulation via z/Vos or full-blown porting via Mono.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/08/2009