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  • Getting ready for the Python breakage

    If Google starts behaving oddly later this year, it might not be due to too many YouTube videos of Britney Spears losing it or a stealth attack by Microsoft's minions, but because of a forthcoming change to the Python programming language.

  • Greenpeace goes open source in collaboration push

    Greenpeace is developing an online collaboration platform to mobilise climate change, based entirely on open-source technologies.

  • Signals from the open-source LAMP

    As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly.

  • Silverlight update fights back against Adobe's AIR

    On Monday, Adobe released the long-awaited AIR download for running Web applications offline, but Microsoft is readying an update to its Silverlight platform that it hopes will keep Web developers in its camp.

  • Symantec sizes up security in Windows Vista

    Windows Vista might be Microsoft's most secure operating system yet, but its Windows SideBar and gadgets could pose security threats, according to Symantec.

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  • Signals from the open-source LAMP

    As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly.

  • Flash in the Pan

    So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. It took me less than 15 minutes of research to determine that it may not kill Flash but it will most definitely do it some serious market damage. Why?

  • Microsoft learns to live with open source

    Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering.

  • 'Free' is the new 'cheap' for software tools

    The release of IBM's free DB2 database points to the downward price pressure from open-source programmers' tools.

  • Database start-ups bet on open source

    Databases have been available with an open-source licence for many years. But the past few months have seen a growing number of partnerships and products aimed at maturing the industry of add-ons and support services -- vital to winning over corporate customers.

Reviews (6)

  • Why MS software is driving me nuts

    COMMENTARY--What is it with Microsoft and incomprehensible error messages? Why can't its programs explain what's wrong in plain English? And that's not my only MS complaint--stand back and let me gripe.

  • Windows Services for Unix 3.5

    Microsoft's Windows Services for Unix will be most useful if you've already made the decision to switch platforms. This free download will also make life easier for Unix experts who need to use a Windows desktop system.

  • Reasons why Windows 98 is still a good choice

    Windows XP is all the rage. Windows 98 is old news--get rid of it. Right? Maybe not. Here are some reasons why you might want to stick with Windows 98.

  • KOffice falls short of Microsoft Office standard

    The latest version of this Linux-based office suite has a lot of ground to cover before it can catch up with the de facto corporate standard, Microsoft Office.

  • Visual Studio.Net -- So, what is it?

    Web Services tool, or the next best programming environment? -- Visual Studio .NET is a combination of things. We investigate precisely what those things are.

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