Open Source Development News & More


Linux-Powered Smartphone Use on the Rise

Analyst firm predicts high growth rate for Linux use in smart devices over next five years.

Polarion Unveils ALM 3.0 Open Source App

Solution helps track software development projects and enables team collaboration.

Microsoft Releases Silverlight

Web development platform to compete with Flash.

Microsoft Document Format Voted Down

OOXML format loses two ISO votes.

W3C Publishes Web Services Policy 1.5

Group devises a more flexible method of handling policy changes for Web services and service-oriented architectures.

Site Quantifies Efforts of OSS Java Developers

A Web portal aims to do a better job crediting Java coders who have contributed to open source software projects.

Agitar Unveils Improved Java Test App

The solution helps Java programmers handle legacy code without breaking applications.

Microsoft and Open Source: Friends or Foes?

Both views have their advocates.

WSO2 Web Services Dev Tools Announced

The company's open source solutions help developers generate applications for Web services, based on C or PHP code.

Levanta Offers VM Management App for Linux

Solution helps track changes across physical and virtual Linux-based systems.

Spring Web Services 1.0 Released

Java programmers can use the Spring Framework for Web services development.

CodeGear To Release Eclipse Plug-Ins

Java developers can expect to see new JGear Eclipse plug-ins, which are arriving next month.

Judge's Ruling Signals 'Game Over' for SCO

Linux Foundation exec discusses ruling against SCO on UNIX copyrights.

SOA for Your Home

An IBM architect turned his home into a service-oriented architecture demonstration project.

Script Start Going Open Source

Tool for network administrators will be offered as a free resource next month.