According to a new survey from business intelligence (BI) specialist Actuate Corp., open source software (OSS) doesn't simply have a token presence in the enterprise; it has truly arrived.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/09/2008
Microsoft on Friday released free open source code that can be used by Web developers to build online blogs.
If you use open source software (OSS), Gartner recommends you have an official OSS policy. But a surprising number of open source adopters are operating without one.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/08/2008
ISO/IEC on Tuesday published the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format standard, formally known as ISO/IEC 29500:2008.
The OpenAjax Alliance unveils two key standards initiatives: a new metadata specification and a new version of its mashup runtime.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2008
Sun Microsystems, a leader in Java and open source technologies, put market "speculation to rest" today.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/14/2008
Agile project management tools provider VersionOne has updated its V1: Agile Enterprise product to include a Java software development kit (Java SDK).
- By John K. Waters
- 11/10/2008
A security flaw in Google's new Android operating system discovered recently by independent researchers further underscores the security debate between open source and proprietary software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/30/2008
Web App Installer centralized management of ASP.NET and PHP-based open source Web apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/16/2008
Microsoft to integrate jQuery library into Visual Studio and ASP.NET.
Some key products won't get attention at the Professional Developers Conference. Here's a guide to what will remain under wraps at Microsoft's biggest developer showcase in years.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 10/15/2008
Mono version 2.0 is released, featuring an improved C# compiler and extended support for LINQ.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/15/2008
Silverlight 2, the latest version of
Microsoft's cross-platform browser plug-in for multimedia
applications, will be available on Oct. 14, company officials
announced on Monday.
Military information technology folks wondering if their use of Apache, Perl, Linux and other open source software is copacetic with the brass will soon get some answers from the Defense Department's Office of the Chief Information Officer.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/08/2008
Mono version 2.0, an open source effort to implement the Microsoft .NET development framework for Unix, Linux and other platforms, was formally released today.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/06/2008