Perl, PHP, Python and Samba have been commended for improving security in a report analysing over 250 open-source projects.
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Sun Microsystems gave developers a gift at the CommunityOne developer conference on Monday a packaged version of OpenSolaris with a new logo.
Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to create a brand-new programming language called Fortress.
A day after Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said open-source software is his company's friend, a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy has called upon the server maker to open the code of Java.
I get the feeling there will be a lot of tired tech buzzwords from fads gone by which will be wheeled out soon with the suffix "2.0" bolted on.
As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly.
The release of IBM's free DB2 database points to the downward price pressure from open-source programmers' tools.
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.
A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
With versions on most Web platforms, a library of databases and Web/XML services, PHP may be the next-generation Web language for your network.
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