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Microsoft and Novell Take Linux Licensing to China

Chinese companies agree to buy support for Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise via licensing issued by Microsoft.

Curl IDE To Be Integrated in Eclipse

Company is moving its Curl dev tools to the Eclipse platform.

SpringSource Enterprise Edition Now Live

Platform adds new tools to support the application development needs of large organizations.

Eclipse Foundation Announces New Mobile, Embedded Projects

Organization expands into another segment of the development community.

Appcelerator Enables Google App Engine Portability

Hosted rich Internet application development platform lets developers tap into Google App Engine.

CodeGear Releases Delphi for PHP 2.0

New version enables database support for Web applications.

Microsoft Plans MSDN Revamp

Microsoft is finally tuning up its Microsoft Developer Network site and promises to resolve long-running frustrations developers have encountered working with it.

MySQL Keynote: An Open Source Love Fest

Sun's "secret agenda" in paying $1 billion for MySQL is to serve the open source community, says Sun's CEO.

Google and Salesforce Ratchet Up the CRM Competition

Integrated solution suggests potential threat to Microsoft's hosted CRM offering.

First Look: Firefox 3.0 Beta 5

Browser test version adds CSS improvements and JavaScript 1.8 support.

Microsoft Faces Skeptics at Open Source Conference

Novell and Microsoft use virtualization technology to demonstrate running Novell's Linux on Windows server, and vice versa.

UPDATED: OOXML Approved, but Battle With ODF Begins

Controversy may continue over Microsoft's Office Open XML document format, which underwent fast-track approval by ISO/IEC.

OOXML Approved, but Battle With ODF Begins

Microsoft's Office Open XML document format was accepted as an international standard, according to an announcement issued today by the International Organization for Standardization.

Leaks Suggest OOXML Approved as ISO/IEC Standard

Microsoft itself is pointing to publicly disclosed information.

Microsoft Joins MIT Kerberos Consortium

Redmond gets behind open source network authentication protocol, which is already used in its operating systems.