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RSS open source xmlGoogle open sources data-moving tool
News The tool, which has been in use for several years at Google, handles the process in which the company encodes almost any sort of structured information that needs to be passed across the network or stored on a disk, Google open-source programs... [11 Jul 2008]
DB2 for Linux Overview
White Paper Its embrace of open standards like Java and XML, and integration with many open source products such as Apache, PHP, Perl and Python make it the preferred database management system on Linux. Linux is a revolutionary Open Source platform that is... [03 Jul 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News A group of UK open-source advocates is seeking donations so it can continue its fight against the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. At the end of April, the UK Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) applied for a judicial... [23 Jun 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News Some members of the open-source community were also sceptical about Microsoft's motives. Mark Taylor, founder of the Open Source Consortium, said Microsoft had "no choice" but to support ODF. There's also political pressure - in the UK central... [23 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News The announcement has already drawn praise from some of the same players in the open source community who, little more than a year ago, criticised Becta for being too closely aligned with Microsoft. One of the open-source community's main criticisms... [14 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News The UKUUG has been in existence for 32 years and is, according to Mark Taylor, the head of the Open Source Consortium, a "venerable organisation of men with long grey beards". The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of... [02 May 2008]
Using Rational Data Architect to Import and Export XML: Create XML Files From Rational Data Architect, and Create Data Models From XML Files
White Paper This software, built on the open source Eclipse platform, helps data architects to model, discover, map, and analyze data across multiple information sources, automating information integration in complex environments. [30 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News In future, Brown hopes to repeat the test to see if the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, conforms with the Open Source Initiative version of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) document standard - ISO/IEC 26300. [21 Apr 2008]
OOXML standard: ISO calls for end to 'personal attacks'
News The plenary session was marked by protests outside, largely carried out by delegates from a nearby open-source conference. The International Organization for Standardization has called for "personal attacks" to cease in the debate surrounding... [15 Apr 2008]
XML Tooling for DB2
White Paper The fact that the DWB is built on top of Eclipse, which is one of the most popular open source IDE, makes it highly extensible. The existing Control Center (CC) tool has been enhanced to provide any XML functionality missing in the DWB. [09 Apr 2008]
The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML
Comment We have witnessed a no-holds-barred political battle between two big industry power bases, with the foot-soldiers from the open source community unwittingly lending their support to a thinly veiled corporate commercial cause. [04 Apr 2008]
OOXML standard on a knife-edge
News A technical group formed to make a recommendation to the BSI's policy panel has voted five-to-one in favour of OOXML being accepted as an international standard, a source close to the process has told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk. [28 Mar 2008]
Practical RDF - Jena: RDF in Java
White Paper Jena is an open source API and toolkit. A basic RDF/XML document is created by instantiating one of the model classes and adding at least one statement (triple) to it. To view the RDF/XML, read it into a model and then access the individual... [18 Oct 2007]
XML Hacks: Unravel the OpenOffice File Format
White Paper OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org) is a suite of free, multiplatform, open source applications for the desktop, sponsored by Sun Microsystems (http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/). The specification of the OpenOffice XML file format... [10 Oct 2007]
Can Redmond rivals storm the Office stronghold?
News IBM has announced the release of Lotus Symphony, a suite of free desktop applications based on the OpenOffice.org open-source product. Analysts expect Microsoft to retain the great majority of its Office customers as it adjusts its product... [19 Sep 2007]
