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Firefox marks its first year on the Net

Firefox turned one year old Wednesday, marking yet another milestone for the popular open-source browser. Read more »

Eclipse to get wiki and CRM boost

New collaboration tools and members from the hosted CRM community await attendees at the Eclipse Foundation's annual conference. Read more »

Apache Derby comes out of incubation with Sun's blessing

The embedded Java database, originally released by IBM as open source, is now a fully-fledged Apache Software Foundation project. Read more »

Microsoft releases key Vista developer technologies

Microsoft on Wednesday gave developers access to a key piece of Windows Vista, months ahead of the operating system's release. Read more »

Apache expands Web services reach

The Apache Software Foundation is expected to launch this week an open-source integration server project, which is part of a bigger effort to create a full suite of Web services infrastructure software. Read more »

Linux Foundation releases developer guide

The Linux Foundation has released a guide for developers who wish to contribute Linux code. Read more »

NetBSD makes cash plea

Developers of the highly portable operating system have made a plea for users to donate "cold, hard cash" to the open source project. Read more »

NetBeans update ships with Sun onboard

The NetBeans open-source project on Wednesday released a major update to the NetBeans Java development tool, and its main backer, Sun Microsystems, announced a support program. Read more »

SAP opens arms to NetWeaver community

Business applications giant SAP expanded its partner network and launched a community forum meant to foster development for its NetWeaver software. Read more »

Mono-man brings .NET to Linux

Novell's Miguel de Icaza is working on a technology that he says can replicate Microsoft's vaunted software development platform on Linux. Read more »

Features (62)

Ian Griffiths talks Windows Presentation Foundation (Part 1)

Windows Presentation Foundation is one of the most interesting new developments in .NET 3.0, we sat down with WPF trainer and author Ian Griffiths to talk WPF, Silverlight and what Microsoft has over the competition. Read more »

The what, why and how of Team Foundation Server - Part 1

In the first part of this series we look at the core features of Team Foundation Server with a particular emphasis on how those pieces integrate in the day to day usage of the product. Read more »

Making an open source living, part 1

Running a business based on open source software is possible, as we found out when we interviewed Steven Noels, a Belgian consultant and member of the Apache Software Foundation. Read more »

Windows Presentation Foundation: Another piece of the .NET puzzle

Windows Presentation Foundation is just one of the major enhancements to the .NET Framework introduced alongside Windows Vista. Read more »

Creating a Community with DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke is an open source CMS based on ASP.NET. Builder AU Technical editor, David McAmis introduces DotNetNuke and how to get it up and running in no time. Read more »

Ian Griffiths talks Windows Presentation Foundation (Part 2)

In the second part of our interview with WPF expert Ian Griffiths, we discuss the Rich Internet Application platform battle, the future of the desktop and whether now is the right time to switch to WPF. Read more »

Mono 2.0: .NET goes non-Windows

We interview Miguel de Icaza, VP of Development Platforms and a founder of Mono to find out what is and is not included in the latest release. Read more »

What Ray Ozzie sees in Azure's cloud

In an interview after his keynote at the PDC, Ozzie talked about what Azure means for developers, businesses, and even the everyman. Read more »

Silverlight 2.0 offers paradigm shift from predecessor

A quick overview of what you'll find in the latest version of Silverlight. Read more »

Building Microsoft code inside the tornado

Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »

Blog (5)

NICTA: Aussies should focus on embedded programming not VB

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- The CEO of the national ICT research centre says the future of Aussie developers should focus on building better embedded and wireless applications and focus less on technologies such as Visual Basic. Read more »

Microsoft release Orcas beta and .NET framework 3.5

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- After two community previews Microsoft have released the first beta of their new Visual Studio development tools, code named "Orcas". Read more »

PowerBuilder hitches wagon to .NET

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- The recent release of Sybase's PowerBuilder rapid application development tool allows users of the toolkit to deploy applications on the .NET architecture. Will it be enough to regain their footing in the enterprise tool space, against the behemoths of Visual Studio and Eclipse? Read more »

OpenID Foundation scores top-shelf board members

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If the OpenID Foundation were a liquor cabinet, it just got stocked with some Grey Goose, Rhum Clement, and Gran Patron. Read more »

Will Microsoft build native Mac and Linux tools?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- If the future is in Microsoft's online services why isn't the company building native tools for Mac and Linux developers? Read more »

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