IBM has donated source code to an open-source project in an effort to create more sophisticated development tools for building graphical interfaces.
Microsoft will be submitting its various "shared source" licenses to the Open Source Initiative in the hope of being granted 'official' open source status.
Google Highly Open Participation Contest is a global program that is an analogue of the Google Summer of Code program (SoC) targeted at high school students.
A project funded by the US Department of Homeland Security has praised improvements in open source security, while outlining some common errors.
Alan Cox, one of the leading Linux kernel developers, has told a House of Lords hearing that neither open- nor closed-source developers should be liable for the security of the code they write.
Microsoft has created the non-profit CodePlex Foundation to target increased communication between open source communities and software companies.
Little wonder these RIA on Linux discussions make me feel icky, as we can dial in at least another two years of proprietary plug-ins dominating on open-source desktops.
Enterprise technology development and improvement rarely takes place as quickly as most IT managers would like, but blaming that lack of speed on the inherent complexity of the problems involved can sometimes be a lazy knee-jerk reaction.
Google announced overnight the release and open-sourcing of a trio of tools designed to help JavaScript developers.
Firefox is still king when it comes to daily work on the tubes, despite the steady increase in the buzz surrounding the open-source Webkit project, on which Safari and Google Chrome are based.
Microsoft is considering making SQL Server source code available to customers under its shared source program. I emphasise "considering," as Microsoft hasn't committed to doing anything yet.
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Australian enterprises are assessing open source as a viable alternative to vendor-specific tool sets, according to one industry analyst.
Companies are beginning to see open source software as a viable alternative for the enterprise, according to a leading analyst.
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The Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson claims that one of the reasons he hasn't deployed much open source software is due to fears about security because the code has not been subject to enough "technical scrutiny".
The new version of Microsoft's Windows CE code-sharing agreement must be popular because vendors have signed up to it, says the software giant.
Developers are to get access to the handheld operating system, in a move that the company hopes will encourage the creation of more applications.
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