Coalition of more than 50 companies, academic institutions and related groups formed around creating greater acceptance of open-source software in government information technology systems.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 07/22/2009
Microsoft takes once unthinkable step of contributing 20,000 lines of source code of Hyper-V drivers under GPLv2.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/21/2009
Google is developing an operating system designed primarily for lightweight Web-based tasks, the company announced on Tuesday.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/08/2009
To address licensing questions surrounding the Mono Project, Microsoft has agreed to apply its Community Promise to both C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/07/2009
Is the open source IDE for cross-platform .NET development a viable alternative to Visual Studio 2008?
- By Krystyna Rosicka-Blonska
- 07/01/2009
Representing a key milestone for Eclipse, the release is the largest yet, comprising 33 projects and more than 24 million lines of code.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/24/2009
Move lets JBoss SOA customers gain governance, policy management and business technology optimization.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/18/2009
The Fedora Project, a community open source effort sponsored by Red Hat, released the its latest Linux distribution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/16/2009
At the Computex event in Taiwan this week, Microsoft presented its vision of a mobile computing world that will include "consumer Internet devices" alongside netbooks.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a surprise appearance at the annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco this morning.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2009
On the eve of its annual JavaOne Conference, Sun Microsystems unveiled a new version of the OpenSolaris operating system.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2009
This year's JavaOne represents a changing of the guard for Sun Microsystems, longtime conference sponsor and steward of the Java platform, which is set to be acquired by Oracle.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2009
Deal with Black Duck Software will feed .NET code into KnowledgeBase and Koders.com.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/21/2009
Microsoft announced on Monday that new tools have been released to help further extend the compatibility and interoperability of OfficeOpen XML (OOXML) document formats used in Microsoft Office 2007.
Microsoft has restructured its .NET Micro Framework (MF) team and plans to eventually open up the .NET MF source code for community development.