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Sun to lose lunch money on JavaFX - June 12, 2008

Opens wallet to tough kids The Rich Internet Application (RIA) fight is hotting up. And, while Adobe Systems and Microsoft are squaring up in the schoolyard with all the kids cheering and screaming them on, it looks as if Sun Microsystems is in danger of getting its lunch money stolen again.
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Firefox record breaker sets the date - June 12, 2008

See you next Tuesday Mozilla has finally set a date for the official launch of Firefox 3 - which open sourcers hope will set a world record for most ever downloads in a day.
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Opera unleashes Kestrel - June 12, 2008

What's the new browser like After months of public inactivity, Opera has been racing to release the latest version of its desktop browser. No guesses why. For the first time since 2003, Mozilla's FireFox looks like a modern browser, and not a skinnable memory heap testing tool.
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Red Hat cancels one-click world domination effort - June 11, 2008

Now banking on enthusiasm We called Red Hat on Monday to address speculation that its RHX (Red Hat Exchange) program was about to go tits-up. Red Hat responded to the concerns today with a blog post.
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Google adds Firefox 3 support to Gears - June 11, 2008

Transmission revamp Google Gears now works in Mozillas upcoming Firefox 3 web browser.
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Delayed SQL Server 2008 hits release phase - June 10, 2008

Very close Microsoft's delayed SQL Server 2008 has inched closer to daylight, with the company's first release candidate (RC) code.
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AJAX browser wishlist call goes unanswered - June 10, 2008

Apathy 2.0 The OpenAjax Alliance is trying to gee up the AJAX community after a disappointing response to its call for a wish list of features vendors should add to browsers.
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Ingres alumnus joins DBMS scrum - June 10, 2008

Cloudy conjecture Ingres originator Jerry Held has become the latest database big gun to take aim at traditional database management systems (DBMS), saying they are unsuited to cloud computing.
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VMware turns Thinstall into ThinApp - June 10, 2008

Probably didn't get the name from Thinair VMware is done digesting the application virtualization startup, Thinstall, and will be rebranding the product under a suspiciously analogous name: ThinApp.
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Silverlight 2 beta 2 - Go Live if you dare - June 9, 2008

Tires hard against Adobe, must try harder Review Microsoft has released beta 2.0 of Silverlight 2.0, complete with a Go-Live license that permits commercial deployments for those sufficiently brave.
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