An update to the Mono open-source software development project brings programmers one step closer to writing Microsoft .Net applications for Linux and Unix. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is an open standard application programming interface (API) that allows application programmers to easily access data stored in a database. The main proponent and ...

This project aims to design a join sampling framework that enables very fast approximate queries in open-source database systems. Project is Not Currently Available This project has reached full ...

It seems like several lifetimes ago that Bill Gates Steve Ballmer, then CEO of Microsoft, declared that Linux (and, by extension, open source) was a cancer for the technology industry. The Microsoft ...

In an effort to woo non-Windows developers, Microsoft is moving .Net Core, the open source, cross-platform implementation of its .Net programming platform, closer to availability. The release ...

Microsoft is doing a lot of great things this year as the company aims to change its fortunes by adopting modern business ideology. Recently, the giant from Redmond announced that it is planning to ...