These are the first foundation stones of the .NET vision to be made a reality. Microsoft's low-key launch of its developer platform for .NET today was over shadowed when its IT security policies again hit the headlines.
The Packard Foundation, which holds a 10.4 per cent stake in Hewlett Packard, has confirmed it is to vote against the company's planned merger with Compaq. The group claims it is in HP's best interests for the merger to fail.
As expected, the company announced the Windows Workflow Foundation, a combination of a new workflow engine, as well as tools and a programming model for developers to use to add such abilities into their own software.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett plans to distribute more than $30bn of his stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett, 75, plans to commit 10 million class B shares of his company, Berkshire Hathaway, to the Gates Foundation.
The Linux Foundation has released a guide for developers who wish to contribute Linux code. At the moment, there are more than 1,000 developers at more than 100 companies making contributions to the kernel, according to the Linux Foundation.
Canonical, the company that sponsors the Linux-based operating system Ubuntu, has joined the Linux Foundation. Ubuntu community members had already been participating in workgroups at the foundation, including the Linux Standard Base, Desktop...
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