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Sun Microsystems will continue its ongoing investment in open source and the AJAX application model by joining the OpenAJAX Alliance and Dojo Foundation, the company said. Sun intends to drive open standards for AJAX programming and increase interoperability across AJAX technologies through its part...

IBM announced plans this week to contribute what it calls "key intellectual assets" to the open source community, in an effort to help companies and software developers adopt and share best practices for Ajax software development. With its software contributions the firm aims to foster an industry c...

Mozilla late last week released 12 patches for its popular open source browser. Five of the patches issued in Firefox 1.5.0.4 were labeled "critical." Mozilla has issued four security updates to the 1.5 edition of the browser since it was made available last November. The last round of security fixe...

Mobile phone giant Nokia released its S60 mobile browser source code under the open source BSD license this week, claiming the move will promote handset platform consistency and avoid the fragmentation that has held back mobile browsing. Nokia is choosing to open the mobile browser engine code becau...

Sun Microsystems announced this week the availability of four new plug-in modules for the open source NetBeans integrated development environment. The new plug-in modules include Jackpot, Real Time Java technology, Web Services Interoperability Technology and Grid Compute Server for NetBeans. The ne...

In his opening keynote speech at the 11th annual JavaOne developer conference, Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz outlined new Java solutions and open source plans in front of thousands of international attendees. "It's not a question of whether, but a question of how," Schwartz to...

Sun Microsystems on Thursday announced that the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 specification has been approved by the Java Community Process Java EE/SE Executive Committee. Java EE is a platform for Java and Web services deployment. It has 30 licensees and includes innovations provided by more ...

Linspire on Monday announced plans to offer a no-cost version of the firm's operating system called Freespire. Kevin Carmony, Linspire's President and CEO, unveiled the Freespire project in his keynote address at the 4th Annual Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego. In his remarks, Carmony explained how...

Open source technologies may not be taking over the world, but they are finding a niche and a large one at that. To be sure, companies large and small are becoming more comfortable deploying open source technologies on the server. Now, an an increasing number of firms are looking into the possibilit...

Windows and Linux are celebrating together. That's because new research predicts these competing platforms will become the dominant force in advanced mobile operating systems. As the demand for advanced devices accelerates, the battle among vendors will intensify, the Diffusion Group contends in "Ad...

Mainsoft last week announced it is working with IBM to extend the Linux ecosystem. Specifically, the companies want to help Microsoft customers migrate to the open-source operating system. The program is designed to allow Windows Web and server applications to run on Linux across IBM's line of eServ...

Microsoft is making some moves that are making Firefox glad: killing IE for Mac and incorporating the Firefox RSS feed icon into IE version 7 for Windows. The software giant released a statement on Friday announcing it was ending Mac support for Internet Explorer. Microsoft initially warned Apple fa...

Red Hat this week announced a new service to provide full certification and production support for key open-source software stacks. Starting in early 2006, Red Hat will offer three new stacks aimed at simplifying and standardizing open-source application stacks. The company said its goal is to allow...

JBoss today said it has acquired distributed transaction monitor and Web services technologies from Arjuna Technologies and HP. JBoss plans to open-source these offerings for its Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS). JBoss executives believe the strategic move will propel JEMS further into the high-en...

Sun Microsystems this week delivered what it believes is a one-two punch in the battle to create the software platform of choice for the next-generation of the Internet. Analysts, however, are not sure the experiment will do anything beyond reducing pricing power in the field. Based on what Sun call...

After several Release Candidates, Mozilla finally released the much-anticipated version of its popular open-source Web browser last evening. Firefox 1.5 is available for free download, and details about a major marketing campaign will come later this week. "Firefox 1.5 builds upon the success of its...

After several Release Candidates, Mozilla said it would finally release the much-anticipated version of its popular open-source Web browser this evening. Firefox 1.5 will be available for free download, with details about a major marketing campaign coming as soon as later this week. "Firefox 1.5 bui...

Open-source browser developer Mozilla was hit with some good news and some bad news this week. The good news is that the Firefox browser has gained 10 percent of the planet's browser market share, according to UK Web analytics firm OneStat.com. Further good news is that the first release of Firefox ...

Microsoft and JBoss today bridged part of the gap between open-source and commercial software with plans to explore how their respective technologies can work together better. The two companies will explore enhanced interoperability between the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System and Microsoft Window...

Nokia is making moves to draw more developers to its platform in an increasingly open-source software landscape. Part of the phone maker's strategy is getting a little cozier with the Eclipse Foundation. Nokia this week joined the Eclipse Foundation as a "strategic developer" and board member. Nokia...