A former Microsoft executive who helped shape the company's initial response to Linux has joined a company selling open-source media software.
Developers and corporate customers eager to get their hands on an open-source version of Microsoft's .Net line of programming tools will need to wait a little longer.
A copyright complaint pushes Google to remove an open-source project to let Linux use proprietary video decoding software called CoreAVC.
IBM is working on an open-source project called Jazz to promote programming tools for globally distributed teams.
Software vendor SugarCRM has given General Public License version 3 the thumbs up and will use it in a forthcoming update of its open-source applications.
The Web 2.0 meme is percolating through all manner of media and has now reached as far as Bangladesh.
The consultants that rolled out one of Australia's biggest known Linux desktop project are set to take on the big boys.
For some unknown reason, open source seems to be a catalyst for workplace arguments--regardless of how technical (or not) the people involved are.
Sun Microsystems donates new cryptography technology to an open-source project at the heart of many secure transactions on the Internet.
If Lance Spitzner and the Honeynet Project have their way, network defenders will get sweeter on the "honeypot"--a traditional method of detecting online intruders.
Backers of Mambo are deeply divided over how to govern the open-source project.
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Simon Phipps, chief open source office at Sun and OpenSolaris board member discusses the issues in trying to impose a governance model on open source projects.
Redmond-based group project manager of Microsoft Office, Gray Knowlton, told ZDNet Australia that OOXML provides higher levels of security. "One of the benefits we have with the OpenOffice XML formats is that we know when we read and write and document because we have an XML based representation of what's in that content -- we know what should and should not be there," he said.
In this one minute video, the creator and maintainer of the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds, explains what makes his pet project so special.
Sugar Suite from SugarCRM is a comprehensive, streamlined tool which offers indispensable services to both a company's employees and its customers.
OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 is a free, open source alternative to Microsoft's Office application suite. It is fantastic if you need basic office applications such as a word processor or spreadsheet at no cost. However, large organisations and power users may be disappointed by its lack of features and support.
OpenOffice.org, the open-source office suite project, has reached a milestone in porting the software to Mac OS X with an early release for Mac developers.
Hewlett-Packard will sidestep a Netscape-branded browser for its open-source original, a move the company calls a vote of confidence for the open-source model.
OpenGroupware.org has been launched with plans to create applications that compete with Microsoft Exchange server products.
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