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Two former Red Hat Inc. employees have started their own Linux company, dubbed SpecifixT Inc. (Specifix), marketing a Red Hat-compatible version of Linux that users can modify to fit their business-specific needs

IBM Corp. on Thursday will preview technology intended to assess and grade Web sites on their accessibility to people who are visually impaired and blind.

Alberta is becoming known for more than just right-wing politics and oil. It is increasingly proving its technological prowess

In theory, an organization is able to see exactly what code will do if it develops its own proprietary code libraries. This is a fallacy.

Eleven U.S. government agencies have officially launched the Government Open Code Collaborative, a voluntary effort between the public sector and non-profit academic institutions to encourage the sharing of computer code developed for and by government entities.

In an effort to improve integration with its third-party customers, IBM Corp. unveiled plans on Tuesday to standardize its automated software quality tools from Rational Software on an open source platform called Hyades. The company also revealed a concurrent announcement for a software quality campaign called Continuously Ensure Quality (CEQ).

Sun Microsystems Inc. said attendance jumped to 14,000 at this week's JavaOne conference

The on-again, off-again issue of having Sun Microsystems Inc. participate in the Eclipse open source tools initiative may soon be on again.