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Microsoft Adds a P2P Star to the Live Lineup

Microsoft put another piece of its Windows Live strategy into place with its announcement Thursday that it had acquired the file synchronization vendor FolderShare. FolderShare...

BEA Acquires SolarMetric

BEA Systems Inc. Thursday announced its acquisition of SolarMetric Inc., a maker of object/relational mapping technology. San Jose, Calif.-based BEA acquired Austin, Texas-based SolarMetric for...

Microsoft: IE Patch Breaking Web Sites

A defense-in-depth change to the functionality of Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer browser is causing problems for Web sites that use custom ActiveX controls. The MSRC...

Moglen: GPL 3.0 Rewrite Drive Is No Democracy

NEWTON, Mass.—Users will be free to comment on the upcoming complex and technical draft versions of the GNU General Public License 3.0 in an...

Business Benefits from Open Code, Sun Exec Says

NEWTON, Mass.—The ecology and diversity of open source licensing models was a good thing that helped drive the diverse business models in the free...

Ruby on Rails: Making Programmers Happy

David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of the increasingly popular Ruby on Rails Web application framework, answered a few questions about his creation earlier this...

ISO Makes Linux Standards Base a Standard

NEWTON, MASS.—The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) here will open on Tuesday to the news from the Free Standards Group that the Linux Standards...

Ruby on Rails Dev Framework on Track for Growth

As with any development environment vying for traction, the Ruby on Rails open-source Web application development framework is seeing the emergence of a vibrant...

Microsoft Live Era Meets Dead Air

SAN FRANCISCO—About every five years, Microsoft holds an event to introduce a "big bet" that Bill Gates is making in hopes of changing computing...

Microsoft Serves Up Internet Services Live

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a renewed focus on services delivered over the Internet, as it tries to fend off challenges from Google and...