Sun puts StarOffice into open source
Developers, rev your engines. Sun is jettisoning 9 million lines of StarOffice code into open source on Friday.
Developers, rev your engines. Sun is jettisoning 9 million lines of StarOffice code into open source on Friday.
Just over a week after reports that Attachmate/Novell was axing the team that developed the Mono open-source implementation of .Net, Miguel de Icaza announced plans to keep the technology alive via a new startup, Xamarin.
Microsoft has begun delivering some of the additional HTML5 tooling for Visual Studio programmers that company officials said would be coming some time this year.
A split in the open-source ranks at Samba rekindles fears about the potential pitfalls and perils of forking Linux.
Open source backers may aspire to a world in which software rivalries are a thing of the past. But at least for now, there's an undeniable rift forming within the ranks.
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- As Sun Microsystems Inc.'s unofficial ambassador to the open-source community, Marco Boerries has a tough job.
The mysterious CPTN Holdings -- the organization that bought the 882 Novell patents as part of the terms of the Attachmate acquisition of Novell -- has been unmasked.
Two keepers of open-source code -- the CodePlex Foundation and the OpenOffice.org Project -- have rebranded themselves as of September 28.
Microsoft is open sourcing the Xamarin software development kit, and is making Xamarin Studio for OSX available for no additional cost for Visual Studio Enterprise users.
Representatives from 13 companies and organizations took to the podium Tuesday at LinuxWorld here with one unified intention: to combat Microsoft's dominance on the desktop.