Open Source Development News & More


First Look: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Public Beta

Highlights of the latest open office productivity suite include Mac OS X support and converters for Office 2007 documents.

Verizon Teams Up With LiMo Foundation

Telco joins organization advocating the use of Mobile Linux.

Tech-Ed Keynote Highlights 'Dynamic IT' and Virtualization

Microsoft's Tech-Ed North America event for IT professionals kicked off today with a keynote address on enabling "dynamic IT."

Microsoft Pulls 'Open Source' Release, Apologizes

The company's Sandcastle project omitted the source code, and thus failed to meet open source licensing requirements.

Tech-Ed: Gates' Farewell to Developers Focuses on Silverlight, Velocity, Oslo

Microsoft's founder and chairman kicked off Tech-Ed with a keynote that took an opportunity to look back, as well as provided a glimpse into the future.

MySQL Gives .NET High Five

There was a lot of head scratching at this year's MySQL Conference and Expo when Microsoft was singled out for its contributions to open source development.

IBM Rational's Big-Band Jazz Release

IBM Rational Director Dave Locke calls Jazz the server-side counterpart of Eclipse; partners announce compatibility initiatives.

MySQL Gives .NET High Five

MySQL becoming a viable platform for .NET developers.

Google's App Engine: No Waiting

Google opens App Engine to all.

AtMail Opens Possibilities for Developers

Company rolls out an open source alternative to Microsoft Outlook and Exchange.

Microsoft To Adopt ODF, Support Other Document Formats

Microsoft Wednesday posted plans for expanding file format support in the next major revision of Office 2007.

Yahoo's Monkey Goes Live

SearchMonkey, a new online development platform and toolset from Yahoo, officially launched Thursday.

Widgets Revolutionizing App Development

According to Sun's Chief Java Architect Todd Fast, these "disposable" applications are changing the face of development.

Java Seeks Closure on Closures

At JavaOne this week, Neal Gafter, a software engineer at Google, presented his proposed specification for adding closures to Java

JAVA ONE: Java Seeks Closure on Closures

If there is one topic that seems to get Java programmers excited, it's the question of whether to include a new feature called closures in the next version of Java.