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Ubuntu and Red Hat praise IBM as it joins OpenOffice.org

Ubuntu and Red Hat praise IBM as it joins OpenOffice.org community
IBM has announced that it is joining the OpenOffice.org development community, with an initial involvement concerning code contributions it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product. The code includes accessibility enhancements, and IBM is expected to make ongoing contributions to the feature richness and code quality of OpenOffice.org. As an aside, IBM has also declared that it will leverage OpenOffice.org technology in its own product line. Since the project’s creation by Sun Microsystems in 2000, nearly 100 million have downloaded the product; and thousands contribute to it….

Please review my website
My vision was to create a website where average people like me could discuss issues that affected them locally in and around where they lived. So far as you can see no one has submitted a comment and the site looked dead and not very inviting. That’s when I came across a site that allows you to…

Places to Intervene in a System By Donella H. Meadows
Here we continue the developer.* Systems and Software series, in which we explore the topics of general systems thinking and cybernetics to discover how “systems” concepts can help software professionals in the day-to-day work of creating, deploying, and improving software.
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Sky Software ships FolderView.Net Control 9.0
Sky Software has released FolderView.Net Control 9.0, which brings drop-in Windows-Explorer-like folder browsing UI functionality to your applications. The control can replace the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited …