Salesforce: Software is hand-to-hand combat
News Company wants the world to take up its software-as-a-service model, and company president Marc Benioff says he will 'change the consciousness of the industry' to do it [08 May 2008]
Skype agrees to obey GPL
News The company has abandoned its appeal against a German ruling that it must supply source code with Linux-based VoIP phones, in compliance with GPLv2 [14:36 BST]
Upgraders to XP SP3 warned over IE downgrades
News Microsoft has said XP users who install Service Pack 3 will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer [17:03 BST]
OpenOffice 3 enters beta stage
News Sun has released the first beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0, adding features such as improved Mac OS X support and support for the OpenDocument 1.2 standard [08 May 2008]
Mac OS X gets first open-source virtualisation tool
News Sun has released a major update to its open-source desktop virtualisation tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems [08 May 2008]
MySQL backtracks on closed-source plan
News Sun's MySQL database unit has reversed on plans to release important backup features under a proprietary licence, following criticism from the open-source community [08 May 2008]
Sun previews JavaFX-powered game 
Video Sun CTO Robert Brewin talks to members of the JavaFX team about how they created the animation inside the game Moontank using the JavaFX environment [08 May 2008]
Sun execs show off JavaFX widgets
Video At JavaOne, Danny Coward and Ken Russell of Sun's Java SE team show how JavaFX-powered applets can be deployed within a web browser or dragged over to the desktop [08 May 2008]
Sun and Liferay launch web-presentation platform
News The collaboration aims to provide developers with web-presentation capabilities for GlassFish, Sun's open-source Java Platform Enterprise Edition application server [08 May 2008]
Sun demos JavaFX apps
Video At JavaOne, the company unveils two new JavaFX-powered apps: Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud [07 May 2008]
Sun shows off JavaFX platform
Video At the JavaOne Conference, Sun demos the JavaFX application, a competitor to Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight [07 May 2008]
Sun previews JavaFX for rich web applications
News The company began its JavaOne conference by showcasing its new rich internet-application technology and its potential for developers [07 May 2008]
Microsoft resumes XP SP3, Vista SP1 updates
News The company is releasing XP SP3 for web downloads and resuming automatic updates to Vista SP1, following an earlier conflict with another Microsoft product [07 May 2008]
Microsoft platform tops Web 2.0 developer survey
News The company's Web 2.0 development platform has beaten offerings from Google and Facebook to lead in a users' choice survey that some believe is flawed [07 May 2008]
Salesforce offers hosted accounting software
News Accounting company Coda and on-demand specialist Salesforce.com claim to have come up with a way for companies to handle their accounting software without having to pay for a full-scale application [06 May 2008]
OOXML expert: ODF flaws remain
News The ODF community has defended its standard, but Alex Brown says his criticisms remain unresolved [06 May 2008]
Xandros expands mobile device push
News A deal with Viyya Technologies aims to take advantage of the growing profile of Linux on mobile devices [06 May 2008]
OpenBSD 4.3 released
News An update to the popular Unix-like distribution includes new security features, drivers, software packages and bug fixes [06 May 2008]
All SAP apps to be native on BlackBerry
News RIM and SAP have announced a 'co-innovation' partnership that will see all the latter's apps made natively available on the BlackBerry, starting with CRM [02 May 2008]
SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is copy of Unix'
News Open-source fans have dismissed Darl McBride's court comments in the lawsuit brought against SCO by Novell [02 May 2008]
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
News The ISO standard for ODF documents is impossible to implement, says an expert who has now found both OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2007 non-standard compliant [02 May 2008]
- OpenOffice defence: Brown is using the wrong version - PeterJudge
- It is quite simple - RCWeir
- Micrsoft committed to ISO version of OOXML - Albert
- Bottom line: no featureful implementations of ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument - Marbux
- My main objections to OOXML are not technical - 1000013186
- Not inconsistent at all - RCWeir
- 'Smoke test' or 'Smoke screen'? - kurizocan2
Hypervisors tip of virtualisation iceberg
News Hypervisors are just the skirmish before the virtualisation war proper, according to vendors and analysts, with virtualisation management set to pull in the money in years to come [02 May 2008]
Analysts: Delay to SAP's Saas rollout no surprise
Analysis The company has pushed back its target for launching its Business ByDesign on-demand software — news that could prove a boon for Saas vendors [02 May 2008]
UK standards body taken to court over OOXML
News The UK Unix & Open Systems Users Group has launched a High Court challenge against the decision by the BSI to approve Microsoft's nascent document format [01 May 2008]
- Good Luck - Moley
- Yes - more balance - Sothis
Adobe opens parts of Flash in mobile push
News The company is aiming for greater use of Flash within mobile and other non-PC devices with the launch of the Open Screen Project [01 May 2008]
