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Red Hat builds one API for many clouds

Red Hat has launched a project to create an API that will let developers write applications for use across many kinds of cloud. Read more »

Qld education progresses PC project

Queensland's Department of Education, Training and the Arts has revealed it is most of the way through one of Australia's largest roll-outs of a standard desktop PC and server operating environments, including a standardised Apple Mac installation. Read more »

Google: Microsoft's Yahoo bid threatens openness

A Microsoft-Yahoo merger could threaten the openness on which the Internet is based, according to a Google executive. Read more »

Trolltech axes the Greenphone

The mobile Linux development company Trolltech has announced that it has sold out of its Greenphone reference handsets and that it will not re-order further units Read more »

Java update warms to scripting languages

Sun Microsystems released on Monday a Java development kit that seeks to meld Java and scripting languages. Read more »

Europe extends open-source resource

The European Commission is launching a resource for public sector organizations to share open-source code and applications. Read more »

Chuck D lays down the law on DRM

'Just a lot of fucked-up shit' says rapper on consumer experience of DRM. Read more »

Corporate America wakes up to Web 2.0

Big companies have for years installed industrial-strength content management systems in the hope of sparking collaboration among workers. There was just one problem: People didn't use them. Read more »

BEA lights US$87.5m fire under its SOA ambitions

Fuego has been acquired to give BEA's offerings a BPM boost. Read more »

BEA Systems acquires Fuego

BEA Systems announced on Wednesday that it bought business process management software maker Fuego for US$87.5 million in cash. Read more »

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10 must-have Linux web-based tools

There's no shortage of web-centric Linux tools -- the trick is figuring out which ones are best for your needs. This article offers a list of those that Jack Wallen thinks are the cream of the crop. Read more »

Google Apps charges ahead with improved data security, long-awaited Java support

Cast Iron Systems and Google have teamed up to overcome one of the biggest hurdles to cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) in the enterprise -- concerns over data security. Read more »

Product spotlight: Drupal Ubercart Module

The Drupal CMS platform is much more than a content management system. Drupal can be a web portal, a blog, display image galleries and even an e-commerce site. Read more »

Open source and the middleware market

Gartner predicts that licence revenues for infrastructure software will start declining from 2006 due to the impact of open source on the market's business models. We look at how the market is changing. Read more »

The benefits of the Web ontology language in Web applications

To reach the visionary goal of a Semantic Web, the W3C must develop a Web ontology language. Get an overview of this farsighted concept and contemplate the various use cases that make this language vital to the future of the Web. Read more »

Set up a Citrix NFuse portal in a load-balanced cluster

With Citrix NFuse, you can easily set up a Web portal that allows network users to access MetaFrame XP applications via a Web browser. This tutorial will show you how to install NFuse in an NLB cluster of IIS Web servers. Read more »

XML middleware boosts productivity tenfold

Learn why an enterprise turned to XML middleware for its B2B needs--and saw results in the form of lower transaction costs, more efficient collaboration, and improved customer satisfaction. Read more »

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Facebook's portal for the masses

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week, Facebook took a number of strategic steps toward its goal of giving people the "power to share and make the world more open and connected." That's how founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the mission statement for Facebook. Read more »

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