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Sun to open-source single sign-on code

Sun Microsystems plans to release part of the blueprints of its Java Access Manager single sign-on product to the open-source community, it said Wednesday. Read more »

Court curbs Microsoft Java distribution

Federal judges in the US have dealt a legal blow to Sun, tossing out most of a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to carry its rival's version of an interpreter for the Java programming language. Read more »

Sun picks GPL for Java code

After years of requests and debates, Sun is set to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly licence. Read more »

Sun's McNealy swings at rivals

Scott McNealy, the Sun Microsystems chief executive who has become something of a punching bag as his company fights back to profitability, threw some punches of his own on Tuesday. Read more »

Gates admits IE failings, looks to AJAX

Microsoft's chairman promises to make up for lost time on IE development as Atlas launches with a production licence Read more »

Visual Studio 2010 can replay bugs

Microsoft has revealed plans for the next version of its development suite, Visual Studio 2010, to be able to record testing sessions so that developers can reproduce and closely examine software bugs. Read more »

Microsoft to offer peek at new tools

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will offer a glimpse this week of future versions of the company's Visual Studio.Net development tools bundle. Read more »

Google-Sun pact brainchild of Sun engineer

The landmark partnership Google and Sun Microsystems unveiled Tuesday wasn't the brainchild of top executives--it bubbled up from the rank and file of Sun's software engineering department. Read more »

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Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »

Evaluate the hidden enterprise design tasks before committing to an API

Here are the reasons why the right API choice can make complex enterprise application development run more smoothly. Read more »

A simpler Java?

With C# and .NET from Microsoft breathing down its neck, Java is facing more heat than it has before. Java creator James Gosling explains Sun's gameplan: A simpler Java that can be deployed faster. Read more »

Truce called in Java standards battle

A closely watched feud over Java standards compliance moved closer to resolution, but questions over the value of that standard still linger. Read more »

The evolution of .NET

Microsoft is touting the new .NET platform, but is it really new? This article explores the maturation of the basic technologies that are the foundation of .NET. Read more »

Who says the browser war is over?

Opera Software CEO Jon von Tetzchner can claim an achievement held by few of his fellow tech entrepreneurs: He's competed head-on against Microsoft and lived to tell the tale. Read more »

Selling developers on .Net

He's hardly as well-known as Bill Gates but Eric Rudder will have more influence over the future of Microsoft's bet-the-company .Net software strategy than his more famous boss. Read more »

The Visual Studio vision

Some parts of Microsoft's .Net initiative may be floundering, but the heart of .Net--that is, the development environment--keeps beating strongly despite its many struggles. Read more »

Driving towards in-car software

Developing applications to run inside cars is a fascinating and potentially lucrative market for developers. But what systems are actually running under the hood, and what hurdles do you have to overcome to build for them? Read more »

What is '.NET' anyway?

Are you little confused about what .NET really is? You're not the only one. This article from Builder.com sheds some light on what .NET is and isn't. Read more »

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Screw-ups, Mobile Linux shakeup and kthxbai Bill

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The Roundup looks at where Sun went wrong with open source, what is happening in the Mobile Linux world and look at the departure of Bill Gates from full time work duties. Read more »

Mixed Emotions

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Betamax showed that technical superiority can be beaten with a good dose of distribution -- does the same fate await Silverlight? Read more »

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