Red Hat last week announced that it has acquired Amentra, a systems integrator specializing in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) projects, as well as a provider of enterprise data solutions.
The U.S. "Yea" vote on Microsoft's XML document format will be added to a final tally on March 29.
Sun Microsystems and the National Security Agency (NSA) announced last week that they are working together to develop new security tools for the OpenSolaris operating system.
Acquisition will help Red Hat better deliver its enterprise open source middleware stack.
Web site provides tools to help test accessibility features in applications.
Agency plans to transfer technology improvements to private sector.
Northern California effort pulls together volunteers to get computers to schools.
Analysis by the Software Freedom Law Center states that Microsoft's open specification promise provides "no assurance to GPL developers."
Solutions help port Microsoft .NET apps to Linux.
Company donates debug tool to Eclipse project.
According to IDG news service, Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza publicly decried his company's patent licensing deal with Microsoft at Redmond's MIX08 conference last week in Las Vegas.
Microsoft's CEO acknowledged
frustration with the acceptance of Windows Vista and the company's failure to
upgrade its Internet Explorer browser more routinely, as well the questionable
decision to pursue separate development paths for Internet Explorer and the
.NET Framework.
Move aims to assure the interoperability of OOXML, ODF and other document formats.
Engineering team cites marked performance improvements over the last version.
AMD, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based CPU chipmaker, announced its collaboration efforts with Microsoft leading up to Microsoft's big launch yesterday.