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The open source movement has undoubtedly encouraged the proliferation of free software in the market. But the trend could have a damaging impact on software innovation, says a prominent market analyst.

Developers using Microsoft's popular Visual Studio .Net software engineering suite were today offered a plug-in that allows them to code web applications for Linux. Referred to as Grasshopper, the freely available Visual MainWin for J2EE Developer Edition is designed to link Visual Studio development to Linux and J2EE server deployments. Grasshopper was designed by Mainsoft and is claimed to be the first Visual Studio-based IDE for Linux.

Open source software was not popular with the IT leaders surveyed by CIOConnect. Despite publicity about lower licensing costs and improved reliability, less than 10% thought the technology was of significant benefit.

Open-source Java would also allow developers to easily build new applications on top of the open code, and could further foster the adoption of Java in developing economies that have a propensity towards open source.

Visual Paradigm is pleased to announce that Visual Paradigm for UML 5.0 version has been released which adopts a refreshing new user interface with numerous tailored modeling and usability guaranteed to satisfy and impress you.

Despite the enthusiasm of many open source backers, successful rollouts of the technology aren't automatic. While a recent Forrester Research report found that roughly 40% of the 100 U.S. companies surveyed had no disappointments, that still leaves 6 out of 10 perhaps wishing they had done things differently. How can you better your chances of success? Read on to learn what open source users and industry watchers advise.

Linux clusters are emerging as a popular choice for high-performance, low-cost data warehousing solutions.

News last week that Sun Microsystems Inc is planning to launch an open source Java Enterprise Service Bus this summer received a mixed reaction from the recently-announced "rival" open source ESB project Celtix, which is hosted by the open source ObjectWeb Consortium and sponsored by Iona Technologies Inc.

We end users are happy with the way the open source movement is progressing. With Linux now a stable operating system worthy of mainstream deployments, we've begun looking up the stack to see where else open source can fit in our data centers.

HealthAlliance, the consortium of DHBs including Waitemata Health and Counties Manukau, is looking at running its own open-source desktop project. It would run in parallel with an initiative led by Good Health Wanganui, whose plan is temporarily stalled.

Welcome to this year's 27th issue of DistroWatch Weekly and happy Independence Day to all our visitors from the United States! Last week's release of SUSE LINUX 9.3 ISO images provided much excitement during the otherwise dull week and many users are now discovering the joys of computing with one of the oldest and best-known Linux operating systems around. In the meantime, the Debian Project ended up with a tarnished reputation for being unable to provide timely security updates for sarge - will this fiasco bring radical changes to the project's security infrastructure? Also in this issue: comment on the recent merger of Mandriva and Lycoris, and an interesting change in the release policy of Fedora Core. Happy reading!

The future of Linux Australia (LA) is in doubt as the organisation debates how to best carry out its operations with limited resources.

There are compelling reasons for Windows users to switch to (or at least evaluate) Linux, but when you know no other world than Windows or don’t want to even think about partitioning your precious hard drive, it can be one heck of a leap of faith!

Artesyn and Wind River will work together to develop Carrier Grade Linux and VxWorks™ board support packages (BSP) for Artesyn’s telecom blades, beginning with the PowerPC® processor-based KatanaQp AdvancedTCA blade. Wind River will provide validation services for the new BSPs. Both companies will work together to market the new products.

Base platform support for Linux on the Cell has been established and is currently on its way into the mainstream Linux kernel tree. Read about the Cell's unique architecture and the SPU file system interface that allows Linux to run on it.

In an effort to capture more of the vital overseas-customers-who-don't-have-much-money market, Microsoft released localized versions of Windows XP Starter Edition in several countries, which is so dumbed-down and crippled that those of us who thought our low expectations of Microsoft could not be beaten were proven wrong yet again.

OSV has developed a free product called LiveLAMP, which is a bootable CD that turns a spare computer into a Linux development server for students to practice and publish programming exercises in over a dozen languages with hundreds of development tools.

The UK government's school computing agency, Becta, has said schools could save costs by switching to what is known as open source software. In open source software (OSS), the underlying computer code is freely available so users can alter it and publish new versions, to benefit the community.

Red Hat, a leading provider of the Linux-based operating system, continues to see increasing acceptance of the open source technology. While the Microsoft faithful may be yawning at the latest results from its competitor, they nonetheless would have to grudgingly admit that the first quarter showed impressive growth.

Partnerships between the government and Microsoft announced on Thursday upon the visit of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates are worrying the open source community which wants to promote alternative open standard software.