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'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 »

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 »

LAMP lights way on open source security

The most popular open-source software is also the most free of bugs, according to the first results of a U.S. government-sponsored effort to help make such software as secure as possible. 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 »

Latest version of PHP released

Version 5.1.0 boasts performance improvements, and makes the PHP Data Objects extension enabled by default. 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 »

'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 »

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 »

MySQL hits US$50 million revenue, plans IPO

Open-source database maker hopes going public will raise funds for acquisitions, CEO Marten Mickos says. Read more »

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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 »

Jump into LAMP development with XAMPP

Want to get a LAMP development effort fired up without the hassles of configuring everything from scratch? XAMPP makes it a breeze. Read more »

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 »

Is Java getting better with age?

Scripting languages are catching on with developers, but Sun's James Gosling sees plenty of kick left in Java. Read more »

Sophisticated open source ad serving with phpAdsNew

A full-featured, sophisticated ad management system doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. This well-documented and powerful ad-serving system might just be right for you. Read more »

Setting up a PHP 5 with Apache 2 and MySQL 4.1.3

PHP 5.0 has finally arrived. Here's a step-by-step guide to setting up a cutting-edge Web development environment with PHP 5.0, Apache 2.0, and MySQL 4.1.3. Read more »

Is it kill or cure for Oracle's database buy?

Purchase of a company with close ties to open-source rival MySQL has people wondering about the database giant's motives. Read more »

Use MySQL to build your own CRM project

MySQL is great for building CRM Web site back ends through MySQL-specific features or tweaks to the source code. Here's how MySQL can help. 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 »

Interview with Brian Randell

We caught up with Brian Randell from MCW Technologies at TechEd/Canberra to talk about some of the new features in SQL Server 2005 and it's role as an -Access Killer". Read more »

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