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IBM's Symphony code base could provide significant enhancements to OpenOffice and sharpen its competitiveness against Microsoft Office
App vendor SAP joins IBM and Apple in backing the open source Java implementation
Google possibly knew the Android OS violated certain Oracle Java patents, but pressed ahead anyway, Judge William Alsup says
We survey the cloud's effects on nine classes of IT jobs: Architects and sys admins win, middle managers and tech specialists lose -- what about you?
Nonprofit consortium hopes cash prizes will spur development for XBRL, which is now mandated in the U.S. but suffers from a scarcity of good software tools
External developers can't build applications for Google+ ... yet
Software as a service and big data get the buzz, but the hottest area of the cloud is dev, test, and deploy -- at a faster and larger scale than ever
Automated software builds and testing improve code quality and increase developer productivity
The system of automatic software builds and tests can help developers make better apps with less effort
Apache's full-text search engine stack gets a refresh