OpenSolaris and Windows can cooperate thanks to released CIFS code
- By John K. Waters
- 12/15/2007
ELC Technologies, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based application developer company, has partnered with FiveRuns Corp. to support enterprise-grade Ruby on Rails (RoR) applications. The partnership will help enable ELC's enterprise customers to actively monitor the performance of their RoR applications.
Norfolk, Va.-based Centric CRM has changed its name to Concursive Corporation to reflect the evolution of the company's product line to beyond customer relationship management (CRM) functionality.
The viability of selling open source software (OSS) to the small and medium business (SMB) segment of the market may not be as big of an opportunity as previously thought, according to a report released by the 451 Group.
Scott Guthrie turns heads at ALT.NET conference.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) recently published GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3), a derivative of GPL version 3. Unlike the standard GPL, Affero has an additional clause that allows users who interact with AGPLv3-licensed software over a network to receive the source code for that program.
San Francisco-based Coverity Inc. has expanded its static source-code analysis scanning solution. The solution now supports Java-based open source software (OSS) projects. Developers can check their OSS Java applications for free using Coverity's hosted solution. The solution scans applications and points out security and quality problems in the code without actually running the tested application.
There's already a thriving Eclipse ecosystem, so do we really need a service aimed at Eclipse end users? You'd better believe it, said Maher Masri, president and cofounder of Genuitec.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/20/2007
OpenDocument Foundation withdraws support for OpenDocument Format.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/15/2007
Open source solution vendor Red Hat is collaborating with Sun Microsystems with the aim of creating a "fully compatible, open source Java Development Kit (JDK) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux," according to an announcement issued by Red Hat.
XAware Inc. has released its latest data integration software under an open source GPLv2 license and also achieved Gold Partner status in the MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance program.
The ongoing file format battle between proponents of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) took a surprising turn lthis week, when a key ODF proponent announced that it intended to abandon the ISO-approved specification.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/02/2007
Developers sound off on the release of .NET Framework source code
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2007
Updated source code search engine from Koders serves midmarket.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 11/01/2007
Microsoft has signed its first patent protection deal with a Linux vendor based in Asia.