PreviousOSI mulls changes to definition of open source
News Builder: The new president of the open source initiative has suggested changing the definition of open source in an effort to stop the problem of licence proliferation [03 Mar 2005]
IBM promotes open source innovation
News Builder: The hardware and services firm is trying to make it easier for students with open source expertise get jobs with its partners, and has proposed a new e-learning programme that encourages open standards [03 Mar 2005]
PHP developer app to go open source
News Builder: Maguma says it will make its integrated developer environment available under an open source licence later this month [02 Mar 2005]
Eclipse to branch out of Java
News Builder: The burgeoning open source foundation is looking to move into non-Java development [02 Mar 2005]
Eclipse steps out of IBM's shadow
Feature Builder: In the year since it was spun off, the open source foundation has gone from strength to strength. What is behind this success? [01 Mar 2005]
Borland develops more interest in Eclipse
News A founder member of the Eclipse consortium has taken a board-level position, adding to the momentum behind the project [28 Feb 2005]
IBM throws its weight behind PHP
News Big Blue is to create a bundle including Cloudscape and Zend's PHP development tools, but insists it is still committed to Java [25 Feb 2005]
Microsoft contemplating 'sharing' source of SQL Server
News SQL Server 2005 is a candidate for Microsoft's shared-source programme, according to senior Microsoft sources within the unit responsible for the database product [24 Feb 2005]
OSI targets licence cull
News The Open Source Initiative is looking into ways of cutting down the vast number of open source licences, amid criticism it is on 'a path towards irrelevance' [18 Feb 2005]
GPL: An update is on the horizon
Feature But that update is still at least a year away, and the process of refining it 'is going to be a screaming match' according to Eben Moglen, a key lawyer involved in the new draft [14 Feb 2005]
Sun's gamble explained
Q&A Sun's moves into the open source arena have been bold, and look like getting bolder. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's president, explains his company's reasoning [08 Feb 2005]
Borland gets personal with new tools
News Builder: Borland's Core SDP suite has analyst, architect, developer and tester modules to help cater for different aspects of application development [08 Feb 2005]
Gates touts Elixir to developers
News Builder: Microsoft's attempts to get developers to write programs that can link Office to other applications kicked off properly at the Office System Developer Conference on Friday [07 Feb 2005]
WebSphere to embrace standards
News Builder: IBM will bulk up the standards-based integration tools in the next version of WebSphere, reflecting the strong demand for software to glue disparate systems together [01 Feb 2005]
Microsoft won't dance with Samba
News Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence - imposed on it by the EU - will shut the door on open source software such as Samba, say critics [28 Jan 2005]
Sun contemplating open sourcing JES
News Builder: Having just started opening up Solaris, Sun is looking at the possibility of doing the same to its Java Enterprise System [26 Jan 2005]
Patent directive adoption just days away
News The software patent saga continues, with adoption of the CIID now scheduled for next week [24 Jan 2005]
Bugzilla 2.18 includes Windows support
News Builder: The popular open source bug tracking system gets improved Enterprise features and is easier to run on Windows [17 Jan 2005]
SAP and Microsoft weave tighter integration
News Builder: The two much-maligned software companies are expected to announce the availability for SAP's Portal Development Kit for Microsoft .Net on Wednesday [12 Jan 2005]
Open source reshaping the services market
Feature Builder: The services market associated with enterprise computing is being shaken up massively by the rise of open source software [10 Jan 2005]
