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Novell has delivered Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0, a new version of the open-source tool for developers to use Visual Studio to design, code and maintain multiplatform applications. Mono [...]

The Mono Project has released the first preview of Moonlight 3.0, giving a first look at the open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight 3 technology for the Linux platform. The preview [...]

Electric Cloud has announced the availability of SparkBuild, a free software build tool that makes developer builds up to 10 times faster than alternative solutions, the company said. With SparkBuild, […]

The leadership of the KDE community has decided to reposition the KDE brand from focusing on being an open-source desktop for Linux to being an overall open-source community. In a […]

Many of the Web's busiest and most popular Websites, including Facebook and Twitter, have one thing in common that enables the sites to scale out to millions of users without […]

Startup vendor Eucalyptus Systems, which has made a name for itself with open-source technology that enables enterprises to build an internal cloud computing environment that is compatible with Amazon's EC2 […]

Vyatta has bundled its dual-licensed Linux and open-source software-based router and firewall software into a branded hardware "appliance" version for the enterprise market. The Vyatta 2501, the first in a […]

Several weeks ago, desktop Linux distributor Linspire announced that it was going to open up CNR (Click N Run), its Web-based software downloader/manager, to other distributions. Now, the company is […]

Multiple security flaws in Apple Computer Inc.'s QuickTime media player could put users at risk of code execution attacks, the company confirmed in an advisory issued late Thursday. The vulnerabilities, […]

David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of the increasingly popular Ruby on Rails Web application framework, answered a few questions about his creation earlier this week for eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl […]

For more than a year, Sun Microsystems Inc. has inched its way towards the release of an open-source version of Solaris. Still, one piece of the strategy remained on the […]

Netline Internet Service, of Olpe, Germany, has released Open-Xchange Server 5, which lets IT administrators create and implement applications without having to changing their existing infrastructure components such as databases, […]

You can look at the Apache Software Foundation's Geronimo project from two perspectives. For some developers, services firms and customers, Geronimo is the fulfillment of the dream: a commoditized, open […]

Just one day after the Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 1.0, the group has revealed that prior versions of the open-source browser pose a security threat to users. According to information […]

Sun Microsystems on Friday will unveil more of its plans for OpenSolaris, the open-source project for the Solaris operating system. But at this point, it's more of a plan to […]

The way that software is being produced and acquired is changing rapidly. The availability of high quality software, often for no licensing costs and with very user-friendly license terms, is […]

The final version of Mozilla's Firefox will arrive September 14, according to lead engineer Ben Goodger. Open-source browser fans, and those who have grown distrustful enough of Internet Explorer's security […]

I've just seen a dispatch from the front lines of the FUD wars, Huw Lynes's report from one of Microsoft's Get The Facts roadshow in Great Britain. It's a fascinating […]

MENLO PARK, Calif.--Sun Microsystems Inc. is pondering the possibility of open-sourcing more of its software--this time with its next-generation 3-D windowing system, called Project Looking Glass, which is under development. […]

The intellectual property claims of SCO against Linux are very likely to backfire. But SCO's aggressive legal tactics have still put a chill on Linux deployments. In many cases, upper […]

For users who've switched to Linux or another operating system that's similarly perched on the outskirts of desktop computing's settled territory--as I have--occasional file format compatibility snags are unavoidable. Most […]

German-based SuSE Linux is the latest vendor to drop Sun Microsystems Inc.'s branded StarOffice 6.0 desktop productivity suite in favor of the free OpenOffice alternative. SuSE on Tuesday confirmed to […]

SAN FRANCISCO&#151Sun Microsystems Inc. has been very responsible and contributed significantly to the open-source community, said Scot McNealy, Sun's chairman, president and CEO, in his keynote presentation here at the […]

Researchers have identified a security flaw in a code library included in numerous popular applications that could enable an attacker to execute code on remote servers. The problem affects the […]

Is Microsoft at last conceding that the open-source world may have some new tricks to teach the old dogs in Redmond? Or is the Redmond software giant simply using new […]

The long-running dispute over when to release vulnerability information escalated last month into a bitter turf war among several security companies, all of which claimed to have their customers' best […]

Red flags pop up when four linux distributors form the UnitedLinux group without the most widely used version of the operating system: Red Hat Linux. Is Linux condemned to go […]

Although it's difficult to measure the true market share of a freely downloadable, open-source product such as JBoss, anecdotal evidence would suggest that the 3-year-old application server originally written by […]

As some 4,000 developers from 42 countries gather in San Francisco this week for IBM's annual technical developer conference, developerWorks Live, they will hear a lot about IBM's view on […]

Momentum is building in the Lotus Domino developer community for a new, open-source initiative to create an alternative Java application development environment for the forthcoming Domino 6. The move follows […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.'s StarOffice might not be ready to totally displace Microsoft Corp.'s Office in the enterprise, but eWeek Labs' tests of the StarOffice 6 beta show the suite has […]

Latest Netscape supports LDAP For the most part, the improvements Netscape has made in the beta of Version 6.1 of its namesake Web browser are aimed at everyday users. However, […]

In most cases, a public benchmark is really nothing more than a transaction race where bragging rights and platform pride are the prizes. But every so often, a revolutionary performance […]

If you want to tell the difference between a principle and a platitude, invert a statement and see if the result sounds absurd. If no one could possibly support the […]

Is open source worth the risk? At right, West Coast Technical Director Timothy Dyck reviews Zelerate's AllCommerce 1.0.3 open-source online storefront application. Dyck's East Coast counterpart, Jim Rapoza, reminds us […]

Oracle Corp. last week announced it has submitted a Java Specification Request to the Java Community Process for a new API to enable standards-based extensions to work with any Java […]

Putty, my favorite secure shell and Telnet client for Windows, was updated to Version 0.53 Oct. 1, adding support for remote VT100 terminal printing and the ability to convert private […]