OpenOffice 3.2 Lands Amid Critical Changes

The new OpenOffice.org release offers a handful of tweaks and improvements. But with an independent Sun now largely out of the picture, what's in store for the project's future?
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Red Hat, IBM Firmly in KVM Virtualization Camp

Big Blue might have been a prime mover behind the Xen open source hypervisor, but along with Red Hat, it's now putting its efforts behind its rival technology.
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Red Hat Talks Up Open Source Cloud Plans

Linux vendor details initiatives aimed at expanding infrastructure and applications through cloud-based open source projects at its Open Source Cloud Computing Forum.
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ActiveState Debuts Open Source Business Suite

New premium offerings roll out as ActiveState looks to enhance community development efforts.
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Salesforce Offers Visual App Builder

Build your apps on Force.com visually by picking just forms and fields with Visual Process Manager.
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Codesion Steps Out From CVS's Shadow

Everyone knows that CVS is a legacy tech for code repositories, right?
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Facebook Makes Major PHP Push With HipHop

Social networking giant says new runtime aims to bring open source PHP to scale.
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Free Ride Over for Microsoft Azure Users

February 1 was the date the company had named to begin charging for Azure services.
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Drupal Opens the Garden to Boost CMS

Open source effort offers users a preview of version 7 with its new Drupal Gardens effort, aimed to simplify implementation of the popular CMS offering.
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Oracle Talks Plans for Linux, Solaris

After Sun acquisition, Ellison details vision for how Solaris and Linux can work together.
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Azure Makes Cloud Computing Innovation Safe

Azure will allow innovators and developers to off-load a lot of cloud deployment issues to a big partner and provide an environment that won’t give IT conniptions.
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Red Hat's JBoss Looks Ahead

An enhanced user interface -- and just plain enhanced user productivity -- are on the menu for 2010.
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Microsoft Readies Two Windows Phone Systems?

The rumors continue over the software giant's mobile plans and the unveiling of Windows Phone 7.
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Mozilla Firefox Embraces Agile With Lorentz Plan

A new development model will see Firefox releases coming faster and incorporating both bug-fixes and new features in the same update.
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Apps Coming to Amazon Kindle

By taking a page from Apple's iPhone, App Store, and possibly, the widely expected Apple tablet, Amazon's move aims to broaden Kindle's capabilities for e-book publishers.
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Firefox 3.6 Gets Speedier, New Enhancements

Support for HTML 5, performance improvements, and Personas are just the tip of the iceberg for the open source browser's new capabilities.
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Selenium Web App Testing Goes Commercial

The open source Web application testing plug-in for Firefox gains a backer and new ties to commercial offerings.
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Firefox Gains 'Personas' Engine for Customization

Previously a Firefox add-on, Personas will soon become part of the browser.
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Adobe Updates BrowserLab

Adobe's browser testing tool expands with new browser support and features. But it won't be free forever.
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Visual Studio 2010 Ship Date Pushed Back

The launch date gets delayed a few weeks to address some quality issues.
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