PreviousOpen 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]
FOAM dives into open source waters
News Builder: The developers of the FOAM software for simulating fluid flow have made the project open source [10 Jan 2005]
Sun revokes FreeBSD's Java licence
News Builder: FreeBSD is concerned that its right to view the Java source code has been taken away [07 Jan 2005]
Firebird database readies SMP release
News Builder: The open source project, which was created when Borland open sourced Interbase in 2000, is due to release a version of its database with full SMP support allowing enterprises greater scalability [07 Jan 2005]
MySQL readies database beta
News Builder: Version five is behind schedule, but the beta should be out very soon [06 Jan 2005]
BBC launches open source network testing platform
News Builder: The BBC has created a network protocol testing platform written in Python and made it available as an open source application [22 Dec 2004]
W3C sums it all up
News Builder: The first single document covering the complete architecture of the Web has been issued [21 Dec 2004]
XML merger standards on the way
News Builder: W3C certified standards have finally been published for those people wanting to easily merge documents in XML format [21 Dec 2004]
Java founder condemns Sun-Kodak patent settlement
News 'The whole case was a complete atrocity,' says James Gosling, who warns that the way patents are being used is 'ridiculous' [17 Dec 2004]
Debian group encourages women developers
News Builder: The number of female developers working on Debian is set to rise in the next few months thanks to the work of Debian Women [14 Dec 2004]
Apple wants programmers, offers iPods
News Builder: Apple is hoping that a competition will spur developers who do not normally work on its platform to use their basic Web programming skills creating 'widgets' for the next version of OS X [10 Dec 2004]
JBoss eyes front-end technologies
News Builder: In the next stage in the company's strategy to build an open-source stack, it has said it may start developing a web application framework [09 Dec 2004]
Making an open-source living, part 2
Feature Builder: Steven Noels, a Belgian consultant and member of the Apache Software Foundation claims running a business based on open-source software is possible [09 Dec 2004]
Public meeting on patents excludes anti-patent campaigners
News A public meeting on software patents is to be held next week, but various high-profile anti-patent campaigners seem to have fallen off the guest list [07 Dec 2004]
Microsoft slips out Yukon test release
News Builder: Microsoft has released another test version of its forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database and has introduced a free management tool [07 Dec 2004]
Perl Advent Calendar opens its doors
News Builder: The popular Perl Advent Calendar returns, bringing festive cheer and programming advice to developers [02 Dec 2004]
China poised to impose limits on overseas software
News Brief: The Chinese government is expected to issue regulations that will restrict overseas vendors from providing software to government departments [26 Nov 2004]
Start-up aims at beating MS and Macromedia to next-gen Web Apps
Feature David Temkin, CTO for Lazlo systems, talks about his plans for taking on the might of Macromedia and Microsoft with his company's open-source gamble [19 Nov 2004]
JBoss and Apache clash on shared code
News Builder: Developers of the two open-source application servers are clashing publicly, claiming that the other is in breach of copyright [12 Nov 2004]
UK Patent Office under fire over software report
News The UK Patent Office has published an article explaining the software patents directive, but it has already been fiercely criticised by many anti-patent campaigners [08 Nov 2004]
