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Microsoft donates .NET Micro Framework to open source

Microsoft has released part of its .NET Framework - the part for internet-connected smart devices - into the open-source community. The company said on Monday that it's releasing source code for the .NET Micro Framework under an Apache 2.0 license. ...

From GAVIN CLARKE, LXer,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Bill Gates

Visual Studio gets Linux dose with Mono

Not only was Visual Studio only built for Windows, but Microsoft's licensing had prevented people using its premier development environment with non-Windows platforms. Now, there's a little less to laugh about. Microsoft partner Novell has delivered a ...

From GAVIN CLARKE, LXer,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Novell, Inc.,  Miguel de Icaza

Sun and Apache: the Java scars that endure

ApacheCon 09 Apache Software Foundation (ASF) pioneers have toasted 10 years of independence and successful code development at their annual conference in California. Speakers who spun-up the project in its early days celebrated building a community ...

From GAVIN CLARKE, LXer,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Oracle,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

Sun preps cell-phone Java plan for netbooks

OpenWorld 09 Sun Microsystems is working with partners to make Java telecomsy for netbooks. The company hopes to deliver a modular version of Java Micro Edition (Java ME) "sometime" next year, which would let netbooks running Java offer more of the ...

From GAVIN CLARKE, LXer,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Oracle,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  Larry Ellison,  BEA Systems, Inc.

Ubuntu man finds metalove in Debian attacks

If there's an upside to the Debian community's recent attacks on Ubuntu and Mark Shuttleworth it's that there'll be more conversation between engineers on the two distros. That's according to Ubuntu founder Shuttlworth, who believes engineers on major ...

From GAVIN CLARKE, LXer,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Mark Shuttleworth,  Red Hat, Inc.

Google Android future haunted by fragmentation past

With four billion connected mobile phones on the planet - compared to one billion PCs - handhelds offer developers the mother of all opportunities: ubiquity and mass market. But the reward comes at a great price: market fragmentation, thanks to so many ...

From GAVIN CLARKE, LXer,  10 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Motorola, Inc.,  AT&T Inc.

Oracle should relax Sun's Java Community control grip

If Oracle ends up owning Sun Microsystems, it's got a one-off opportunity to correct the mistakes of the past when it comes to working with open source on Java. The database giant should relax Sun's tight control over the Java Community Process (JCP), ...

From GAVIN CLARKE, LXer,  5 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Oracle,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  IBM,  European Commission,  Red Hat, Inc.

FSF launches Windows 7 anti-upgrade letter campaign

The Free Software Foundation is mobilizing against Windows 7 with a campaign to dissuade IT decision makers from installing the operating system. The group's sent letters to 499 of the top Fortune 500 organizations, warning that a move to Windows 7 ...

From GAVIN CLARKE, LXer,  26 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Linux chief challenges Microsoft to pony up on patents

Microsoft's earned the respect of certain sections of the open-source community for its engineering work around open-source and Linux. Specifically, its support for MySQL, PHP and JBoss on Windows and its involvement with Eclipse and Apache have been ...

From GAVIN CLARKE, LXer,  21 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Linus Torvalds,  IBM,  Hewlett-Packard,  Motorola, Inc.

Drizzle for Christmas - year-end-prediction for MySQL fork

A production ready version of the MySQL fork Drizzle could be ready by the end of this year. Brian Aker, Drizzle lead architect, has said the project will start to look production ready and people can begin production testing in earnest after the next ...

From GAVIN CLARKE, LXer,  19 Aug 2009

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