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After three years of development, open source developers now have an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s .Net application development platform, thanks to Novell Inc., which this week released version 1.0 of its Mono development platform.

Aiming to reach a larger audience of software developers, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced slimmed-down "Express" editions of its Visual Studio developer tool for specific programming languages.

Compuware Corp. has expanded its development lifecycle and now enables developers to automatically generate unit tests from an application

Hoping to boost the use of its Windows CE software in devices, Microsoft Corp. plans to announce on Monday that it will share more of the operating system's source code and allow device makers to make changes to that code.

After launching in a blaze of hype early last year, Microsoft Corp.'s CRM (customer relationship management) software is on a slower-than-expected development path, frustrating some partners and customers.

The Eclipse foundation has named an Ottawa-based former Oracle Corp. executive to be the first executive director of the open source group, effective Tuesday.

Imagine for a moment a developer

The stage is set for some fireworks on the last day of the JavaOne show next week, where Sun Microsystems Inc. has assembled a panel to debate the thorny issue of whether it should release its Java technology under an open source license.