Sunday | 6 July, 2008
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FAQ: Office 14 and Microsoft's support for ODF 28/05/2008 10:37:02
Changes were made to OOXML between Ecma's approval a year and a half ago and ISO's approval this spring. Microsoft won't support the ISO version until Office 14 arrives around the end of 2009. Is this a big deal, as Microsoft critics such as Andy Updegrove claim? - +
JavaOne: Sun backs won't charge for MySQL backup features 08/05/2008 09:23:27
Sun Microsystems has dropped its unpopular plan to charge for some features -- and their source code -- in its recently acquired MySQL database. - +
Data center mushrooming? Why not get rid of it? 25/04/2008 08:37:15
If your data center processing load doubled this year, could you handle the growth? - +
Mickos: Sun may back off - a bit - on plan for MySQL add-ons 18/04/2008 08:46:42
Caught in a firestorm of criticism in the blogosphere and online forums, officials at Sun Microsystems are now saying that some upcoming online backup features may not necessarily be made available only to paying users of the MySQL open-source database. - +
The state of open source: Chris DiBona, Google 31/03/2008 10:03:59
Chris DiBona is a key advocate of open source development at Google, where he spearheads the Google Summer of Code and oversees license compliance. A former editor of Slashdot, DiBona is no stranger to the passions of the open source community. Here's what DiBona sees brewing for open source. - +
Blu-ray beats HD DVD -- now what? 20/02/2008 09:55:34
So the high-definition DVD war's over, and to the victor go the spoils. - +
Mitch Kapor to phase out involvement in OSAF 11/01/2008 15:19:49
The Open Source Applications Foundation has announced a major funding and personnel shakeup, including that Lotus Development founder Mitchell Kapor will begin to phase out his involvement and investment in the nonprofit organization, which he founded in 2001. - +
First Passport, now fraud: former MS employee charged 10/12/2007 08:02:06
The former Microsoft employee associated with the company's notorious December 1999 Hotmail outage has been charged with fraud. - +
SourceForge opens eBay-like marketplace 07/12/2007 08:29:20
SourceForge's open-source, project-hosting Web site now has an eBay-like marketplace, where users can offer support services for sale. - +
Gigaspaces targets "the Digg effect" 09/11/2007 08:19:25
Hoping to seed grassroots interest, Gigaspaces is making its enterprise-targeted eXtreme Application Platform middleware available for free to startup firms. - +
Pioneering nerd news site Slashdot turns 10 04/10/2007 14:07:45
Developed as a logical step after aliens and popcorn, Slashdot, originally coined as a joke and hosted on a personal homepage, is 10 years old.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
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