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Novell ships cross-platform Mono tool

Company's open-source project aims bring easy-to-use .Net tools to Linux and other operating systems.

June 30, 2004 by Martin LaMonica

Red Hat and Caldera get in the ring

Dozens of distributions are stepping into the US ring. But only two heavyweights - Red Hat and Caldera - pack serious business punch. Which one will be the champ?

August 14, 2000 by Joseph C. Panettieri

Firemint acquires fellow Aussie game dev

Two of Australia's well-known niche video-gaming studios are set to merge their operations, with the acquisition of Infinite Interactive by fellow Melbourne development house Firemint.

January 4, 2011 by Renai LeMay

Desktop Linux 'will force Microsoft to innovate'

The open-source software movement will revitalise commercial software rather than undermine it, says Novell

April 20, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Dumb move: iPhone's "sweet, innovative" dev solution is neither

"Weeeeeaaaak." That's how one blogger described the iPhone support for 3rd party developers announced at WWDC07 today, and after watching the video of this morning's keynote address by Steve Jobs I have to agree.

June 11, 2007 by Ed Burnette

ASP pop chart leaves Europe out in the cold

The failure of the ASP model to catch on in Europe has been underlined by a survey out today.

April 4, 2001 by Joey Gardiner

Can Microsoft change 'gears' for the sea-change ahead?

For the last year, I have endured ridicule, insults, and criticism for talking about the potential of a well-funded competitor like Google, let alone the collective potential of countless other smaller innovators, to prove the viability (and even the supremacy) of Web-based applications over their 'locally run' competition such as Microsoft Office. The so-called 'offline problem' (the one where the apps and data become unavailable do to loss of connectivity..

June 8, 2007 by David Berlind

APIs, a programmer's tool, are opening up the gates to business innovation

Application programming interfaces, once used to stitch applications together, now stitch entire businesses together.

September 17, 2014 by Joe McKendrick

How Salesforce got its developer conference right, while Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google lost their way

Salesforce made developers and admins the stars at TrailheaDX 2019. Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook failed to do the same at their developer conferences.

June 16, 2019 by Bill Detwiler

Schwartz: "Innovation happens elsewhere"

NetBeans day officially got started this afternoon with a keynote presentation by Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Java Tools director Tim Cramer, and others. Sun Software EVP Rich Greene says of open source java, that if certain conditions are met, "Why not?"

May 15, 2006 by Ed Burnette