Microsoft is placing a significant emphasis on standardization and interoperability, saying it will share its APIs and release extensive documentation of its protocols.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Ed Scannell
- 02/21/2008
The second Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey found a general trend toward the use of mixed open source and proprietary software in the enterprise.
In a move that could help deliver single sign-on to the masses, Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo have joined a consortium that backs a common federated identity specification.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/08/2008
The latest version of Spring.NET, made generally available in December, is a major upgrade to the original port of the popular Spring Framework, a layered Java/J2EE application-programming model.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/05/2008
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.