The Register - Software: ApplicationsBiting the hand that feeds IT1,076 developers, 15 years, one open-source Wine- June 18, 2008 Windows masterwork completed, finally After 15 years of development, a running battle with Microsoft and persistent doubts about its viability, the first proper version of Wine - a middleware tool to run Windows applications on Unix-like operating systems - has finally arrived.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/wine_one_finally/ Red Hat chief calls for open source missionary work- June 18, 2008 Time for customers to swap code Summit Customers who remain only halfhearted open source converts aren't doing enough for Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/red_hat_summit_2008_keynot... Firefox 3 downloads hit 7m despite server FAIL- June 18, 2008 Mozilla pats self on back regardless The Mozilla Foundations servers yesterday buckled under the strain of its own PR stunt to convince World+Dog to download Firefox 3 and set a new record over a 24-hour period.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/18/mozilla_firefox_3_record/ Red Hat moves JBoss to Amazon's cloud- June 17, 2008 EC2 adopts another app Red Hat is now brewing its JBoss Java application server on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), marking the company's second round of making code available as an online pay-as-you-go service.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/red_hat_jboss_on_amazon_ec... Social networks may be imaginary- June 17, 2008 Think of them as spherical cows Supernova Eric Bonabeau doesn't mince words. "A lot of this talk about the social graph," he says, "is crap."http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/isosystems_networking_talk... Firefox 3 Download Day falls flat on face- June 17, 2008 What a day to have an outage Updated Firefox 3 Download Day began with a PR fiasco. For almost two hours after it was supposed to kick off servers were down and Mozilla Foundation websites either unavailable or publishing html error messages.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/firefox_3_debuts/ Microsoft's searches for European ad clicks- June 17, 2008 Plans tent city research centre Microsoft today unveiled plans to speed up investments in Live Search just days after Google and Yahoo! agreed to an online ads love-in that left Redmond spitting feathers.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/17/microsoft_search_technolog... Red Hat promises delayed JBoss 'worth the wait'- June 16, 2008 Refactored and ready for Oracle Red Hat has committed to delivering the delayed next edition of JBoss in the "next several" quarters, promising the wait will be worth it.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/16/jboss_5_boast/ IBM 'advises' staff to opt for a Microsoft Office-free world- June 13, 2008 Somewhere over the rainbow... Big Blues 20,000-strong techies have been advised to ditch Microsoft Office and use open standards software such as Lotus Symphony instead.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/13/ibm_staff_ditch_microsoft_... Aussies deploy bovine facial recognition- June 13, 2008 Sorting the cows from the goats Aussie scientists have launched an ingenious "cowcam" facial recognition system designed to identify animal species and keep unwanted riff-raff out of cattle watering points, the Guardian reports.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/13/cowcam/ |