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MS Word add-in goes open source

Kathryn McConnachie
By Kathryn McConnachie, Digital Media Editor at ITWeb.
Johannesburg, 07 Feb 2011

MS Word add-in goes open source

Microsoft has revealed that its chemistry add-in for Word is now freely available for download and tweaking by the open-source community, says CNet.

The tool, which was released in beta form in March of last year and has since been downloaded 250 000 times, lets users create and modify chemical information inside of Word 2007 and 2010.

This includes chemical formulas, labels, and 2D structures that can more easily be worked on than with Word's standard formatting tools.

Integration limits open source growth

Sonatype has revealed the findings from its annual Software Development Infrastructure Survey, according to Business Wire.

The study, based on detailed answers from more than 1 600 software developers, architects and managers across all industries, company sizes and geographic regions, found that while open source development infrastructure is widely adopted, integration issues limit developer productivity and team efficiency.

Open source components are also widely used as building blocks for software development, but corporations have only limited control over how they are selected or utilised.

eBay open-sources infrastructure code

Taking a page from Amazon's playbook, eBay is now offering pieces of its infrastructure technology to the world at large, writes ZDNet.

Only rather than offering infrastructure services on a pay-as-you-go basis, eBay is open-sourcing its infrastructure code to the wider community.

The mega-market company recently unveiled a Web site for its open source initiative, which features a beta version of Project Turmeric, a Java-based service-orientated architecture (SOA) platform.

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