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Article | 12/06/2013 Oracle releases Java EE 7 with eye on HTML5 development
Oracle has announced the availability of Java Platform Enterprise Edition 7, a release that brings new capabilities for HTML5-based application develo...
Article | 12/06/2013 Berlin won't migrate to open source, looks to open standards instead
The German city-state of Berlin won't migrate to open source software. Instead, its parliament decided in principle to choose workplace IT based on op...
Article | 6/06/2013 Wintel under siege as mobile and Android ascend at Computex
Surging tablet sales and the muted response to Windows 8 have opened the door for Android at this year's Computex and exposed deeper cracks in the Win...
Article | 6/06/2013 Red Hat packages newer versions of Ruby, Python
Red Hat has put out a beta release of Software Collections 1.0, in a bid to let developers use newer versions of languages such as Ruby and Python wit...
Article | 29/05/2013 Australia mulls requiring OpenDocument Format compatibility
Australia's government may mandate that its agencies use software compatible with OpenDocument Format (ODF), an international file standard.
Article | 23/05/2013 Java developer says he built, launched basic open source office suite in 30 days
A freelance Java developer claims it took him only 30 days to build and launch a basic open source office suite that runs on multiple OSes.
Article | 19/05/2013 Bitcoin developer talks regulation, open source and the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto
With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinio...
Article | 8/05/2013 Facebook to design an open source switch
As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.
Article | 1/05/2013 Hadoop gets more search with MapR, Cloudera releases
Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information.
Article | 23/04/2013 SkySQL, MariaDB to merge
Two companies offering third-party support for Oracle's open-source MySQL database, as well as the MySQL offshoot MariaDB, have announced plans to mer...
Article | 16/04/2013 Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop
Merging the worlds of big data and cloud computing, Red Hat, Hortonworks and Hadoop integrator Mirantis are jointly building a software program, calle...
Article | 15/04/2013 Red Hat releases community OpenStack distribution
Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition ...
Article | 15/04/2013 Citrix bequeaths Xen to the Linux Foundation
In an effort to attract a more diverse set of contributors, enterprise software vendor Citrix has donated its open source Xen hypervisor to the Linux ...
Article | 15/04/2013 Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers
Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as ...
Article | 12/04/2013 In Pictures: 13 hot new open source projects
Browser-based toolkits, add-ons to old favorites, tools programmers will love -- here are the most promising projects emerging from the open source co...