Canonical on Tuesday released its first publicly available developer edition of Ubuntu for mobile internet devices.
Open source vendors need to become "more business-like" in their dealings with government if they are to see their products prosper in the public sector, according to a government official.
Delayed annual report will offer details of Novell's patent, interoperability and sales partnership with Redmond.
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.
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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.
Red Hat has released a new version of its Linux operating system with features aimed to appeal to both the personal computing and server markets.
Windows Server 2003 will be launched in 'modules' in an effort to make Microsoft as responsive as the open-source community to development issues.
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