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- Apology by Novell, accepted or rejected?
- Apology by Novell, accepted or rejected?What apology? And what's with the crazy links?de Icaza's interview reads absolutely nothing like an apology. It does, however, read like a statement that Mono is still highly relevant because Microsoft's source code "release" is nothing more than hand waving and hot air. It benefits...
- Tags: .NET, OPEN SOURCE, Development tools, apology, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-05
- de Icaza: .NET source code release a non-event for open source world
- de Icaza: .NET source code release a non-event for open source worldI think he's correctClean room is still the best approach to open source development, which means that Mono's developers cannot allow themselves to be influenced by proprietary code in any way (their job is to implement the protocols, not...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Development tools, Microsoft .NET, Icaza, open source, open source world, Clean Room
- Discussion threads 2007-10-05
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- Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version
- Miguel de Icaza has announced that that the first public sourcecode release of Moonlight CNET articleis now available. This version of Moonlight is based on Silverlight 1.0 and not the Silverlight 2 beta that is out now from Microsoft. It's also not Moonlight 1.0 as it seemed early on. According...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, UNIX, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- First public release of Silverlight for Linux is out
- The first public release of Moonlight -- the Silverlight on Linux project from open-source leader Miguel de Icaza and his band of coders -- is out. De Icaza, Novell Vice President for Developer Technologies, noted the release in a blog post dated May 13. De Icaza noted...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Novell insists it's winning the Linux wars
- In the third of a series of interviews by Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian right insisted his company is not being hurt by its association with Microsoft. "Novell grew 200% in the SUSE Linux marketplace year-over-year from an invoicing perspective," he said. The...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0
- Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0My Wish List.Only one thing: I would like Microsoft to get solidly behind Mono to get a complete and up-to-date .Net implementation for Linux.Very interesting. Not sure what they hope to gain here or how the willmaintain the block-in. Probably the best answer, is that...
- Tags: Linux, .NET, Development tools, Golden Age, Microsoft Corp., Glasnost 2.0, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0
- Last week I spent two days on campus in Redmond with about 40 of my industry colleagues at the Microsoft Technology Summit, an annual invite-only event where Microsoft selects a swath of people from all over the world -- key technology influencers -- to learn about what the company is...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Mono project releases first IDE, Mono 2.0 into beta
- Novell's Mono project has delivered its first Integrated Development Environment IDE for Mono as well as a beta version of the next Mono platform. MonoDevelop 1.0, with support for Microsoft's .NET Framework 1.0, is an open source IDE for Linux developers building GNOME and ASP.NET applications....
- Tags: Mono, IDE, Novell Inc., Beta, Development Environment, MonoDevelop 1.0, Mono Project, .Net, Development Tools, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Will it always be about Microsoft?
- In a rather heated argument during MIX 08 last week, Miguel de Icaza right made a provocative statement the reporters in the room seem to have glossed over. "There is a feature beyond selling corporate [software] and patents ... it's going to be owning end users." ...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Wordpress, Movable Type, Channel Management, Blogging, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Marketing, Internet, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- Is the open source IPO a pipe dream?
- Will Red Hat be the only major pure play open source company to go public? That's what observers are wondering as more and more open source stars are swallowed up by traditional proprietary giants, with Nokia's purchase of Trolltech – announced yesterday - and Sun's buy...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Open-source Company, Red Hat Inc., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Liquidity, Zurlocker, Alfresco, Open Source, IPO, Databases, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Microsoft to build an 'Emacs.Net' text editor
- Developers are puzzling over recent clues blogged by a few Microsoft employees regarding a new "Emacs.Net" tool the company is building. Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (the folks who developed the Windows Communication Framework, a k a "Indigo") is hiring developers to build a product that team member...
- Tags: Editor, Microsoft Corp., Emacs.Net, Emacs, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Team Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Construction, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- First Moonlight port of Silverlight to Linux due in six months
- First Moonlight port of Silverlight to Linux due in six monthsTime to make .Net truely crossplatform.This is a good move forwards - but I wish Microsoft would accept that .Net has to be more widely available. True, it's on 92%+ of all computers (well, not really - it can run...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, .NET, Middleware, Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- First Moonlight port of Silverlight to Linux due in six months
- Miguel de Icaza, Vice President of Developer Platforms at Novell, said this week the first release of "Moonlight" -- Novell's port of Microsoft's Flash-competitor Silverlight to Linux -- should be done in another six months. De Icaza provided an update on that status of Moonlight during this...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translators
- Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translatorsAll part of the planLook like you are cooperating, put enough bugs in the translators so they don't work and people will quit using them and just you MS format. Look back at history and you will find this pattern over and over...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, translator, Microsoft Corp., De Icaza
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translators
- Over the next three months, Microsoft will be releasing new and updated translators designed to aid customers who want interoperability between Microsoft's Office Open XML OOXML and other document formats, including Open Document Format ODF. On December 4, Microsoft began rolling out three new translators that...
- Tags: Interoperability, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Mono code broken into 3 modules, MonoDevelop 1.0 to ship in January
- The Mono project's leader and GNOME founder Miguel de Icaza was kind enough to pass along a number of news tidits from Mono Summit 2007, held last week in Barcelona. First, the open source organization, sponsored by Novell, decided to separate the source code into three...
- Tags: Mono, MonoDevelop, .Net, Development Tools, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-12-01
- Red Hat, Sun deal reflects power shift driven by open source
- Three years ago, a Red Hat-Sun pact seemed as unthinkable as a Novell-Microsoft partnership -- or World Series championship for the Boston Red Sox. The BoSox were down 0-3 games against the Yankees in the American league playoffs, Red Hat was eating up its Unix...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- OpenOffice won't fork -- for now
- In spite of a bitter battle between Novell and Sun developers, OpenOffice won't fork – at least for now. That's the consensus among several OpenOffice developers who are locked in a bitter dispute with Sun over how the open source project is governed but who nevertheless...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Fork, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- Mono at ReMIX: No Moonlight incarnation of WPF planned
- Novell 's Mono chief demonstrated an early incarnation of "Moonlight" before .NET developers Tuesday but he warned that a full implementation of Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), aka Silverlight, is unlikely -- at least under his watch. Miguel de Icaza, vice president of engineering at...
- Tags: Mono, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Development Tools, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Microsoft's Ballmer calls out Red Hat with more patent threats
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is back on the "Linux violates our patents" kick. But this time, he's calling out Red Hat, specifically, for allegedly infringing on Microsoft IP. At the UK launch of Microsoft's Startup Accelerator Programme last week, Ballmer said it's only a matter of time...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
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