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Layoffs at Attachmate put the future of the Mono Project in question, dimming hopes for cross-platform C# development
The near-billion-dollar company is attracting lots of attention from patent attorneys
Oracle wants documents related to the use of Apache's Harmony in the Android OS
OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, IBM Lotus Symphony, SoftMaker Office, Corel WordPerfect, and Google Docs challenge the Microsoft juggernaut
Users can swap out default Hadoop data sort for higher-performing solutions
Oracle's Hudson moves alienated the open source community, and those behind the fork say Oracle's latest move was also done without them
GWT 2.3 adds more HTML5 capability, while Google Plugin for Eclipse features integration with Google services
Marten Mickos says that Version 5.5 of the MySQL database is probably is the best version ever produced