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Ruby on Rails 2.0 released for Web apps

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Version 2.0 of Ruby on Rails, the popular open source Web application development framework, was released this morning, said the developer of the framework, David Heinemeier Hansson, on Friday. Key to this release is its reliance on REST (Representational State Transfer) Web services instead of SOAP Web services. Security enhancements also ...

Red Hat delays new software for PCs until January

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Red Hat Inc has postponed until January the launch of a new Linux software product for personal computers that would directly compete with Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Windows operating system. Introduction of the software, which would also compete with Novell Inc's (NOVL.O) Suse Linux software and would initially be sold in developing ...

Open source and the corporate elephant

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

More and more open-source developers these days are employees of companies, paid to work on open-source projects, rather than independent programmers doing it for fun. The change raises issues for projects, programmers and employers alike.   A number of corporations are moving into the free software arena, and this has resulted in ...

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Saturday, November 24th, 2007

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