http://www.computerworld.com.au .NET Centre en-us Copyright 2008, IDG Communications, for personal use only, not for redistribution without permission. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:23:59 +1000 60 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=715070036&rid=-500 Enterprise service oriented architectures have received a fair amount of hype, but Sydney-based digital marketing group BlueFreeway has leveraged SOA to integrate services from more than 20 companies to create a global, Web-based marketing portal dubbed "blu". Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:18:33 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=506354369&rid=-500 By opening its .NET Framework libraries Microsoft is again responding to the leadership of the Open Source community, according to industry consultants and developers, but remaining on the back foot. Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:49:46 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1320812819&rid=-500 Microsoft is releasing its .Net Framework libraries under the Microsoft Reference License, which allows viewing of source code but not modification or redistribution, the company said. Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:21:08 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1198611498&rid=-500 Opening up to developers, Microsoft is releasing its .Net Framework libraries under the Microsoft Reference License, which allows viewing of source code but not modification or redistribution, the company said on Wednesday. Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:32:19 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=243059957&rid=-500 Mozilla spun off its Thunderbird e-mail client into a new for-profit subsidiary on Monday and seeded the unnamed company with $US3 million in start-up money, the open-source developer announced. Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:13:40 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=177423746&rid=-500 CodeGear is today releasing CodeGear 3rdRail, an IDE for building applications with the popular Ruby on Rails open source Web framework. Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:03:05 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=523933018&rid=-500 On the same day that Microsoft set a date for the delivery of new Vista and XP service packs, it shut down a popular utility built and maintained by Windows enthusiasts for easily installing updates offline. Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:12:04 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=2113297919&rid=-500 Looking to assist developers in building business applications, Microsoft published a second beta version of ADO.Net Entity Framework this week and a community technology preview of tools to work with the framework. Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:08:36 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1879716689&rid=-500 Despite his best efforts to maintain an extremely low profile, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, arrived in Australia today for a 24-hour stop over principally aimed at talks with government. Thu, 24 May 2007 17:25:01 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=158309657&rid=-500 More than two years after Victoria's Human Services Directory (HSD) went live, the Department of Human Services has outlined its plans to extend the application's functionality with a new three-year contract beginning in 2008. Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:15:27 +1000