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JBoss salivates over Drools
JBoss announced on Tuesday it will soon add a business rules engine, known as Drools, to its open source software stack. Read more »
Google in sight as Ballmer vows .NET push
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confessed the software giant's .NET strategy has come to a standstill, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings, and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google. Read more »
Fedora takes off as Red Hat declines
Latest statistics for the Web server market show that Fedora, Red Hat's free Linux operating system, is growing in popularity. But the picture isn't quite so rosy for its enterprise offering. Read more »
New GPL on the horizon
The long awaited update to the GPl is 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. Read more »
MySQL 4.1 moves in on Oracle
The open-source database is edging closer to parity with commercial databases with functionality such as binary prepared statements. Read more »
Jan Baan launches Web services firm
Jan Baan, best known as the driving force behind business software maker Baan, has shifted his attention to Web services with the launch of a new company, Cordys. Read more »
UN group extends reach of Linux
The International Open Source Network produced a Linux desktop manual as part of an effort to encourage developing countries to use open-source software. Read more »
Sybase sees RFID as saviour
The database firm wants to manage information sent in by remote devices. Read more »
Pirated software bigger threat than open source: Gates
Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, has labelled pirated software as a "tougher competitor" to his company than open-source software. Read more »
Researchers vow to smash "barriers to innovation"
Academics from Cambridge, MIT and UCL have come together to foster the development of technologies such as peer-to-peer networking and viral communications. Read more »
Features (5)
Essential bookmarks for the .NET developer
Check out these online links that Tony Patton highlights as essential bookmarks for .NET developers. Read more »
The Web as a platform
As a gross over-generalisation, software developers don't care much for the latest trends in fashion. Read more »
Laying out elements with the CSS box model
The CSS2 specification uses the box model as the basis for describing everything displayed on a Web page. This concept will require some rethinking by developers, but the flexibility of the design will pay off in the end. Read more »
Remember your stars
Managers who are dealing with a problem employee should remember how slacking performance affects the team. Asking your star performers to pick up the slack could backfire. Read more »
Format C++ objects as you write them
The STL allows you to write objects to streams, but what about custom formatting? This code walk-through will show you how to handle it. Read more »
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Microsoft shows off IE9 previewThis week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »
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In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »
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Google launches Apps MarketplaceGoogle launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »
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Filter protesters brave Vic weather
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CNET first look at Google Buzz
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