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Sun, Open Source and Star Trek

One of classic Star Treks best episodes was "Mirror, Mirror" For those of you who have somehow managed not to see it, in this...

Plans to Parcel Linux Standards Base Meet with Approval

The Free Standards Group has decided to break up the single, core Linux Standards Base specification into different modules that can be combined to...

Microsoft Keeps Office 12 Cards Close at Dev Conference

Microsoft is hosting about 800 of its system partners, ISVs and Office application developers at its Redmond, Wash., campus this week to drill down...

Java Enterprise System 3 Attacks Business Woes

Sun Microsystems Inc. is rolling out its newest Java Enterprise System release, along with five market-driven subsets aimed at solving specific business problems. Sun officials...

CollabNet Leader: Software Development in a Sorry State

BURLINGAME, Calif.—The current state of the corporate software market could best be described as a train wreck, Brian Behlendorf, the chief technical officer and...

Open Source Initiative Changes Leaders

The Open Source Initiative announced Tuesday that it is replacing its longtime president, Eric S. Raymond, and other officers.The moves are part of the...

Bandwidth Is Still Not Free

Today marks the entry deadline—really, we mean it—for eWEEKs Fifth Annual Excellence Awards. Full information is available at www.excellenceawardsonline.com.As we prepare for the annual...

Can Microsoft Take a Page from Open Source?

While Microsoft Corp. will not actually deliver any new bits at the VSLive Conference in San Francisco next week, the company will share the...

The Importance of Microsoft Being Transparent

At next weeks VSLive conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Corp. will be announcing the status of such tools as Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2,...

PUBPAT Questions Suns Open-Source Patent Policies

The Public Patent Foundation is questioning how Sun Microsystems Inc. is granting the open-source software community rights to more than 1,600 of its patents. PUBPATs...