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10 questions for Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman

Name: Amichai Shulman

By Nancy Weil | 24 May, 2012 14:11

Tags: Amichai Shulman, data protection, security, it management, software, Imperva

KDE innovation still brewing amid stable 4.5 release

With KDE Software Compilation (SC) 4.5 released this week, the open source project has made another stepping stone towards its goal of providing a modern, free desktop people can adapt to their needs. TechWorld caught up with KDE developer and spokesperson for the project, Sebastian Kugler, about what was achieved with this latest release and how KDE SC can be more innovative.

By Rodney Gedda | 11 August, 2010 05:50

Tags: desktop linux, innovation, kde, kde4, open source, software development

KOffice on version 2.0, extensions, and being like Firefox

The idea of an application that supports third-party extensions and add-ons users can download and install in one click may be more applicable to Web browsers than office suites, but the developers at the open source KOffice project have developed such an architecture where all components are modular. TechWorld interviews the marketing coordinator for KOffice, Inge Wallin, to find out where this lesser-known of the open source office suites is headed now version 2.0.0 has arrived and what excites its developers. Building an easy, intuitive, cross-platform, and extensible platform like Firefox is high on the agenda.

By Rodney Gedda | 28 May, 2009 16:05

Tags: firefox, kde, kde4, KOffice, odf, ooxml, openoffice

The A-Z of Programming Languages: Tcl

Our series on the most popular programming languages continues as we chat to Tcl creator John Ousterhout.

By Kathryn Edwards | 08 May, 2009 13:22

Tags: a-z of programming languages, Java, mars lander, open source, python, software development, tcl

Solaris exec touts Unix platform's strengths

Solaris has been Sun Microsystems's bread-and-butter Unix system since 1992. While Unix platforms such as Solaris now are up against the open source Linux juggernaut, Sun maintains it has the technological advantages and accommodations for open source to keep Solaris in the game. The company also cites important customer wins as evidence of the platform's continued strength. To hash out the state of Solaris in today's marketplace, InfoWorld editor at large Paul Krill recently met with Jim McHugh, vice president of Solaris marketing at Sun, at the company's California campus.

By Paul Krill | 14 October, 2008 09:38

Tags: Linux, solaris, unix

Rasterman on the path to Enlightenment

Carsten Haitzler, who is perhaps better known by his alias, Rasterman, has been the lead developer for the open source desktop shell Enlightenment for the past 10 years. Since attaining a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of New South Wales in 1997, Haitzler has built a career around his interest in graphics software, and has worked as a core developer at Red Hat and an engineer at VA Linux Systems in the U.S. and Japan.

KDE king Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the desktop

With the recent release of version 4.0, the KDE open source project has garnered a lot of international attention. One of KDE's lead developers, and best known personality, Aaron J Seigo is in Australia to speak at this year's Linux.conf.au on his vision for better desktop computing. Computerworld spoke with Seigo, a native of Calgary, Canada, about his view of the world and how a little bit of innovation will permanently change how people interact with software.