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Open source grows beyond its roots

One of a growing cadre of open-source companies, Zimbra will add joint document creation and sharing to its messaging and collaboration software at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco. Read more »

Zend seeks a sustainable open-source model

Incoming CEO Harold Goldberg says he'll focus the PHP software company on big businesses and Web 2.0 start-ups. Read more »

Hyperic launches open source management project

The company is applying the open source model to the enterprise management software business Read more »

Lenovo and IBM to recall 526,000 batteries

IBM and Lenovo are recalling 526,000 notebook batteries they say pose a potential fire hazard. Read more »

GPL3 welcomed by IBM, Red Hat, Novell, MySQL

Sixteen years after releasing GPL2, Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation launched GPL3 over the weekend. Read more »

Eclipse to split from IBM

Eclipse, an open-source development tools organisation backed by IBM, plans to transition to an independent foundation by next month, a representative said this week. Read more »

IBM tunes up for Jazz open-source project

IBM is working on an open-source project called Jazz to promote programming tools for globally distributed teams. Read more »

IBM's Rational cooks up Java plan

IBM's software group is getting ready to unveil a Java development tool, the fruit of its acquisition of Rational Software, that promises to make it easier for programmers to build custom business applications. Read more »

Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel

Apple Computer plans to announce Monday in the US that it's scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel's microprocessors, CNET News.com has learned. Read more »

CA gives patents to open source

Computer Associates will give open-source projects access to 14 of its patents, the company said on Wednesday as it also announced a technology cross-licensing deal with IBM. Read more »

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Model-Driven Development today

Model Driven Design promises to cut development time, reduce bugs, and increase maintainability. Pipe dreams? Maybe not according to Matthew Overington. Read more »

IBM DB2 9.0 Review

DB2 9.0 has a lot for the newcomer or seasoned hand alike. Read more »

Can't J2EE and .NET just be friends?

The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer. But can they play nicely together? Read more »

Web services group focuses on security

A group working to ensure the compatibility of Web services software is preparing to tackle its biggest challenge yet: security. Read more »

In defence of freedom

The principles are the same, but technology has moved on significantly in the 15 years since the release of GPL 2. Read more »

Why open source is bad for Australia

Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Read more »

UML modeling simplifies software design

UML combines best practices, platform independence, and extensibility into a common language for modeling complex software solutions. Read more »

Open source: More than just free beer

In response to a recent article questioning the motives of governments that use open source technology, Australian commentator Con Zymaris hits back at Andrew Parsons' anti-open source stance. Read more »

See how the Java API for XML Registries works

Web application developers must deal with a number of distributed registries, each with its own API or protocol. The Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) aims to unify these approaches so that each may be used as needed in an automatic fashion. Read more »

Top five problems in IT business: Rational VP

We talked to Hayden Lindsay, IBM Rational's vice president of enterprise tools and compilers about enterprise modernisation. He identified five key factors that are inhibiting business responsiveness. Read more »

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Sun considering GPL for Java

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Sun Microsystems is poised to release "significant parts" of the Java Standard Edition(JSE) under a free or open source licence by the end of 2006 -- possibly under the Gnu General Public Licence(GPL). Read more »

How to make a brand homeopathic

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- There was once a time when the word Java was used another person knew what you were talking about. It was either the language, the island or the coffee -- it was hard to take either of those three definitions out of context. Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

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    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

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    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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