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C dominated 2008’s open-source project nursery
C overwhelmingly proved the most popular programming language for thousands of new open-source projects in 2008, according to license tracker Black Duck Software.
The company, which monitors 180,000 projects on nearly 4,000 sites, said almost half – 47 per cent – of new projects last year used C. Black Duck said 17,000 new open-source projects were [...]
Microsoft Keeps Embracing Open Source, Digs PHP
Microsoft, the commercial software behemoth from Redmond, Washington, continues to dip its toes into the open source pool. Microsoft’s Open Source Technology Center (OSTC) is home to the software vendor’s relationships with a few open source products such as MySQL and SugarCRM. The OSTC has been hard at work lately — especially, in the web [...]
Microsoft reverses course, becomes more open to open-source community
When Microsoft Corp. bought Powerset Inc. in July, it acquired more than just search engine technology. It also became the owner of open-source code that was — and still is — being contributed to the Apache Software Foundation’s Hadoop project.
Having open-source technology in a product was a first for Microsoft, said Robert Duffner, a senior [...]