The United Kingdom is the latest government to express support for the OpenDocument Format standard, which competes with Microsoft's Extensible Markup Language-based format.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 02/26/2009
A new report from IDC, announced on Wednesday, suggested that the global economic malaise has already chipped away at the enterprise IT server market.
On Monday open-source middleware maker WSO2 unveiled a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework built on the OSGi specification.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/10/2009
The Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) today posted an open letter to President Barack Obama on open source software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/10/2009
After months of mounting dissatisfaction with the way Sun Microsystems was evolving the MySQL database, the founders of the popular open source vendor have decided to move on.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/06/2009
The source code for Microsoft's Web Sandbox is now available under an open license.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/03/2009
Defense Department officials have launched a new Web site where developers can work on open source software projects specifically for DOD.
Microsoft’s Powerset acquisition brings the first open source code into a Microsoft product.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/01/2009
Redmond releases a CTP of Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/01/2009
The team developing Moonlight, a multimedia application for Linux- and UNIX-based machines, scrambled to enable live streaming media play for the Barak Obama Presidential Inauguration that was broadcast on Tuesday
The developers behind Linux have released the latest version of the open source operating system kernel.
- By Joab Jackson
- 01/05/2009
Sun Microsystems recently released the latest version of its desktop virtualization software, xVM VirtualBox.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/04/2009
Alfresco Software and Joomla partner up to develop an integration module based on Content Management Interoperability Services.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/01/2009
MySQL 5.1 was released by Sun Microsystems in April, but I decided to test it out this month.
Appcelerator Inc. earlier this month released a public preview of Titanium SDK, an open source alternative to Adobe AIR.