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Red Hat Joins Microsoft Interoperability Group
Open source solutions provider Red Hat has joined the Interop Vendor Alliance in an effort to make its products more interoperable with Microsoft’s extensive environment. The move makes Red Hat the latest in a growing line of Linux distributors cozying up with Redmond by joining the alliance — a group of tech companies working together to make their products work with Microsoft’s product line. Open source solutions provider Red Hat has joined the Interop Vendor Alliance in an effort to make its products more interoperable with Microsoft’s extensive environment. The move makes Red Hat the latest in a growing line of Linux distributors cozying up with Redmond by joining the alliance — a group of tech companies working together to make their products work with Microsoft’s product line. Most of Red Hat’s work with the group will focus on making its middleware more compatible with Microsoft’s, building on previous efforts undertaken by its JBoss division.

Source: www.linuxinsider.com

Third KDE 4 Development Snapshot Released
The KDE project announces the availability of the third development snapshot of the upcoming KDE 4. This snapshot is meant as a reference for developers who want to play with parts of the new technology KDE 4 will provide, those who want to start porting their applications to the new KDE 4 platform and for those that want to start to develop applications based on KDE 4. This snapshot is not for end users, there is no guarantee that it will be stable, the interfaces are subject to changes at any time.
Source: osnews.com