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Microsoft funds Apache
News news analysis The software giant is sponsoring a major open source organization, in a move that may not be as counterintuitive as it first appears.
Tags: Open source, Web sites, Software licensing, Microsoft Corp., Apache Software Foundation, Google Inc., Database, GPL, software, Linux
Microsoft backs document-format test tool
News The online tool is intended to ensure that different vendors' implementations of OOXML produce compatible results.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft Corp., Apache Software Foundation, OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Plug-in, Tool, Interoperability, Microsoft Internet Explorer, software
Researchers warn of XML library flaws
News XML parsing vulnerabilities are affecting multiple open-source vendors and applications, the Finnish computer emergency response team has warned.
Tags: Open source, Apache Software Foundation, computer emergency response, Flaw, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Python, JRE, Java, Open source
An inside look at the Apache Software Foundation
Techguide Justin James recently spoke with the Apache Software Foundation’s President and Executive Vice President about what the ASF does and how they do it.
Tags: Open source, Protocols and platforms, Web servers, Apache Software Foundation, GPL, Web Server, blogging, Apache Web server, Justin James, decision-making
Slow site? Yahoo open-sources an app for that
News Sure, rivals could profit from Yahoo's release of Traffic Server as open-source software. But overall, Yahoo bets it'll gain more than it loses by giving it away.
Tags: Web sites, Web servers, Yahoo! Inc., Open Source, Google Inc., Apache Software Foundation, Traffic Server, Microsoft Corp., software, Web sites
International open source communities focus on China
Blogs The OW2 Consortium, an independent industry community dedicated to developing open source middleware announced the launc...
Apache Stonehenge SOA tool hits first milestone
News Project, which aims to provide developers with a set of sample service-oriented architecture apps that work across languages and platforms, has seen its first key release.
Tags: Business applications, Open source, Apache Software Foundation, SOA, Tool, W3C, software company, best practice, Programming, programming language
Yahoo to distrbute its version of Hadoop
News Hadoop is an open-source grid computing project, and demand for Yahoo's take on that software has led the company to make available its own code.
Tags: grid computing, Open source, Apache Software Foundation, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apache Hadoop, Server, blog, Benefit, Open source
Secure and stable server setup with CentOS
Techguide CentOS is an operating system that is completely compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here's how to optimize CentOS setup with RPMForge and Utter Ramblings repositories.
Tags: Open source, Operating systems, Repository, Apache Software Foundation, Red Hat Inc., Plug-in, CentOS, Grep, Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Subversion with ViewVC
Techguide Here's a walk-through of the basics of Web-based ViewVC, which is a Web-frontend to both subversion and Concurrent Versions System.
Tags: Open source, Software engineering/development, Repository, Apache Software Foundation, Web Browser, Concurrent Versions System, Tool, ViewVC, Subversion, HTTPS
Quickly install a LAMP server on Ubuntu
Techguide Here are some quick and easy steps to installing a LAMP server on a running Ubuntu machine.
Tags: Servers, Open source, Linux, Apache Software Foundation, Web Browser, Red Hat Inc., Ubuntu, Password, Red Hat Linux 6.0, Server
Do more with Apache
Techguide The apachectl command allows you a great deal of control over Apache processes, and can be used to debug or test configurations.
Tags: Open source, Web servers, Apache Software Foundation, Directive, Mandriva, Vincent Danen, Apache Web server, Server, server software, Canada
Five reasons to hire open source developers
Techguide Afraid an open source developer will be a liability to your organization? TechRepublic's Jack Wallen offers some reasons to think otherwise.
Tags: Open source, Protocols and platforms, Human resources, Trends, Apache Software Foundation, Open-source Developer, Apache Web server, Open-source Community, Microsoft Windows, proprietary software
Google open sources Wave components
News The company has released some of the underlying code for its upcoming Wave collaboration and communications platform, as a way of sparking developer interest.
Tags: Open source, Apache Software Foundation, Google Inc., API, client-server, IM, network, Web Site, collaboration, Open source
Google runs more than 10 million Web sites
News According to new statistics from Netcraft, Google runs more than a tenth of the world's active Web sites.
Tags: Web sites, Business applications, Servers, Storage, Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft IIS Server, Google Inc., Web Page, Netcraft, software
