Microsoft has added another nickel to its open source credibility bank this morning with the announcement of its first collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/19/2008
For Microsoft and Intel, the computing universe is going parallel.
Red Hat last week announced that it has acquired Amentra, a systems integrator specializing in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) projects, as well as a provider of enterprise data solutions.
Sun Microsystems and the National Security Agency (NSA) announced last week that they are working together to develop new security tools for the OpenSolaris operating system.
The United States has voted for approval of a modified version of the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard for business documents.
- By William Jackson
- 03/17/2008
Adobe releases first version of the Adobe Integrated Runtime, and open
sources the complementary Flex framework.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
TopCoder's Ira Heffan weighs in on Microsoft's pledge to open its technology.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
First Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 2.0 betas are released at MIX08.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
CodeGear partners with Russia to provide programming education.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
After MySQL acquisition, Sun plans to pursue other open source vendors.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
Microsoft opens APIs, protocol documentation in an effort to reach out
to the developer community.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
The Software Freedom Law Center, which provides legal representation "to protect and advance free and open source software," has issued an analysis of Microsoft's "Open Specification Promise" and its compatibility with the GNU General Public License.
Microsoft this morning revealed to developers the expected next steps in the software development kit (SDK) for the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format specification.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/13/2008
Novell, a sponsor of the open source Mono project, issued an announcement today that a new development tool, called MonoDevelop 1.0, will be available for download at the end of this week.
According to IDG news service, Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza publicly decried his company's patent licensing deal with Microsoft at Redmond's MIX08 conference last week in Las Vegas.