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ObjectWeb ESB Petals About to Bloom

The ObjectWeb Consortium is preparing to release a new open-source Enterprise Service Bus initiative that targets the Java Business Integration specification. According to sources, the...

Microsoft Tests Virtual Wi-Fi Software

Researchers at Microsoft Corp. have created the prototype for new Wi-Fi software that allows a user on a PC with a single network card...

Zend Announces PHP Standardization Project

BURLINGAME, Calif.—Zend Technologies, creator of the open source PHP web development platform, introduced Wednesday a new industry-wide collaboration project to standardize development on the...

Co-founder Resigns from Red Hat Board of Directors

Red Hat Inc. co-founder and former CEO Bob Young, 50, has resigned from the board of directors of the enterprise Linux company he co-founded...

Microsoft: No Near-Term Plans to Seek Open-Source Licensing Approval

While Microsoft Corp. has no current plan to apply for Open Source Initiative approval of the new licenses that will govern its Shared Source...

PHP Puts Web Apps, Wikis in Users Hands

BURLINGAME, Calif.—An increasing number of next-generation business and social-networking Web applications over the next few years will be originating from their users, rather than...

Ballmer: Microsofts Priority Is Innovation

ORLANDO, Fla.—Microsoft plans to keep customers happy and competitors at bay "the good old fashioned way—with innovation," according to company CEO Steve Ballmer. "Its top...

Microsoft Slashes Shared Source Licenses

Microsoft Corp. is slashing the number of licenses it will use for its Shared Source Initiative from now on, while at the same time...

Analyst: With Quality This Lousy, ITs Heading for the Meatpacking Treatment

ORLANDO—"Nick Carr was wrong," said Gartner analyst Richard Hunt. "IT matters more all the time." And what happens when an industry really matters? It gets...

Linux Standard Base Takes on the Desktop

The Free Standards Group and its Linux Standard Base work group Tuesday announced the formation of the Linux Standard Base Desktop Project, with the...