Users of open source networking and telephony gear will get good news this week, as Vyatta and Digium have entered into a joint development and marketing agreement.
The recent decision of Symantec to get out of the security appliance business says more about the hardware industry than it does about the security business in general or Symantec in particular.
Microsoft Thursday unveiled a revamped Live Search API that developers can use to embed search on Web sites with more support for frequently used Web-development technologies and less restrictions on how third parties use the technology on their Web sites.
Open source has become a staple for software development in the enterprise, but keeping track of it and maintaining security for it remains an elusive goal, according to a survey of more than 3,500 data architects and developers published today by Sonatype, which provides component lifecycle management products and also operates the Central Repository for downloading open-source software.
SpringSource has bought G2One, which provides training and support for the increasingly popular open-source Groovy language and the related Web application development framework Grails. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Outsourcing development and open-source development may at first appear to be about as far apart as baseball and football. Both use a ball in a game, but that's about it. Yet a closer look from open-source software developers and industry analysts reveals that enterprises using outsourcing for their programming needs could stand to learn some management and process techniques from the open-source community.
For the price of $8.2 billion, private-equity firms Silver Lake and TPG Capital have offered to take Avaya private. This is the largest such transaction ever in the enterprise networking and communications arena. And it’s a positive development for Avaya’s shareholders, employees and most importantly its customers.
Mauritius launched its Community Empowerment Program (CEP) last week with the aim of facilitating ICT use in order for citizens to fully participate in the country's socioeconomic development.
The Free Standards Group (FSG) last week created a Linux Standard Base Developer Network, a move to promote the interoperability of Linux applications across various distributions and flavors of the open source operating system.
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie Monday revealed Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing platform that allows developers to build and host their services on Microsoft infrastructure.
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Nigeria's technology watchdog, has finalized work on the country's ICT for development (ICT4D) plan following the final technical meeting by experts working on the document last week at NITDA's headquarters in Abuja.
Spammers have never shown any signs of moral development, but many of them have benefited from the technical intelligence of corrupt geeks who support their nefarious activities. Now, when I write about Bad Things, I anonymize the details and usually avoid making overtly derogatory comments in print; however, where spammers are concerned, the gloves come off. So here - without names or contact details but with lots of insulting comments - is the story.
Three African trading blocs have agreed to merge into the African Economic Community (AEC) and put ICT issues at the top of its infrastructure development agenda.
SAP has abruptly reorganized its development strategy, with SuccessFactors CEO and cloud strategy chief Lars Dalgaard leaving the company and executive board member Vishal Sikka now tapped to lead a single software development unit.
In a recent newsletter, we discussed the development of open source-based routers and PBXs from companies such as Vyatta and Asterisk. We got a lot of response to that newsletter, including one reader who asked if we thought that there would be as much of a community for open source based routers and PBXs as there is for Linux.
Avaya CEO Lou D'Ambrosio has stepped down for unspecified medical reasons and is being replaced temporarily by former Cisco chief development officer Charles Giancarlo.
At the request of its SharePoint and Office product development teams, Microsoft's Office Labs operation has created and is testing a prototype of an internal social network that can provide employees with feeds and updates about their colleagues.
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