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  • Microsoft tools build bridge between OpenXML, other formats

    Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a free plug-in for Firefox to translate Open XML documents, an update to its document translator and a toolkit for Java developers that was built under the umbrella of its Document Interoperability Initiative.

  • Microsoft's openness stressed

    Expressing a now-familiar theme, a Microsoft executive at the ApacheCon conference on Friday morning touted Microsoft's efforts to be more open, highlighting moves such as offering the company's "M" modeling language under the Microsoft "Open Specification Promise."

  • Free software: It's about the money

    Open-source software developers are seeing a lot of interest in their products in Europe -- but it's North American companies that are opening their checkbooks, said speakers at Paris Capitale du Libre, a conference organized by the Federation of Open Source Software Industry.

  • Infobright releases open-source data warehouse

    Analytic data warehousing vendor Infobright is releasing an open-source data warehousing product under the GPL v2 license, and has gained Sun Microsystems as an investor through a US$10 million round of venture funding, the startup announced Monday.

  • Open-source ERP, BI firms take a tag-team approach

    Two open source companies have partnered to provide an integrated enterprise resource planning and business intelligence offering that should minimize the complexity that an open source deployment typically renders.

  • Simplexo launches open-source enterprise search tool

    A U.K. startup called Simplexo has launched an open-source enterprise search engine, joining a small but growing group of vendors hoping to crack the crowded technology space through that development model.

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