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Open-source LAMP a beacon to developers

For years, the business-software development world has been split largely between Microsoft's .Net toolset and Java. Get ready for a third option. Read more »

MySQL seek Australian expansion

MySQL AB, the company behind the popular open source database MySQL, is looking to ramp up its presence in the Australian market. Read more »

Microsoft looks to extinguish LAMP

The threat of open source web application software has led the software giant to produce smaller, cheaper versions of some of its tools. Read more »

Google open sources XML-alternative Protocol Buffers

XML, it seems, has run out of steam for Google. Google said Monday that it has created an open source project for a data interchange format called Protocol Buffers. Read more »

Cisco cleans up with SOAP alternative?

Cisco has announced an alternative to the Web-services protocol SOAP — and made it open source. Cisco says its Etch messaging protocol will be more efficient than the SOAP standard and the company will release the source code. Read more »

BEA eyes scripting languages

BEA Systems -- a company long committed to the Java programming language -- plans to support alternative scripting languages in upcoming products. Read more »

'LAMP' start-up warms to free DB2

Start-up ActiveGrid has released an update to its toolset for building business applications with open-source software, adding support for IBM's newly introduced free DB2 database. Read more »

Grassroots computing languages hit the big time

Once considered simple toys by serious programmers, scripting languages are becoming first-class citizens in the world of corporate software development. Read more »

'Free' is the new 'cheap' for software tools

James Gosling, a vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems, once quipped that the average software developer spends more on cafe lattes than on tools. Read more »

Microsoft learns to live with open source

Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering. Read more »

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Signals from the open-source LAMP

As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly. Read more »

The LAMP development toolkit

Need to dust up your Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, and MySQL (LAMP) software stack skills? Our LAMP development toolkit is just what you need. Read more »

One virtual machine to rule them all

The Java platform can be used to interpret more than just the Java language -- it has expanded its coverage to include Ruby, Python with PHP to follow shortly. 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 »

RIFE with possibilities

Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »

A look inside Google's open source kitchen

Google's Chris DiBona says the search giant has a lot of involvement in open source, but is also a firm believer in proprietary software. Read more »

Explore the Zope open source CMS framework

Find out what makes Zope open source CMS framework different from other OS-CMS frameworks and why those differences may prove useful. Read more »

Java development trends

Java is quickly moving into new arenas. This first part of the series from Builder introduces just some of these trends. Read more »

Interview with Dr Andrew S Tanenbaum

Nick Gibson caught up with Dr Tanembaum after his keynote address at linux.conf.au and spoke about microkernels, MINIX and what's coming up on the horizon. Read more »

Six barriers to open source adoption

The benefits of open source software are well known--lower TCO, more choice, and increasing quality and functionality of the code. Several barriers must be overcome before Linux and other open source projects are broadly accepted across enterprises, but they aren't insurmountable. Read more »

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