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• Samba team receives Microsoft protocol documentation 4 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  "Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba. Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors as part of the European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the antitrust lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on September 17th 2007 .... "
• Advanced Message Queue Protocol to Commoditize Messaging 1 year, 11 months ago
  
  Floyd Marinescu writes "The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) has been announced today by JP Morgan Chase, RedHat, Twist, Cisco, Iona, and others. AMQP is an open specification for queue-based messaging that is technology agnostic and completely interoperable; it aims commoditize the messaging middleware industry and provide true interoperability across technology stacks in any language or operating system. RedHat will also be implementing AMQP into their operating system much like SendMail implements SMTP."
• RFCs repository with keyword indexes 2 years, 5 months ago
  
  Miloslav Nic writes "RFC-Ref.org - a repository of 4000+ crosslinked RFC documents with KEYWORD INDEXES has been opened. Click at protocol keyword in RFC 2324 to learn more about Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol. The site features indexes both to serious as well as humorous RFCs."
• The Gospel of Secondaries by Protocol 2 years, 6 months ago
  
  Guest writes "Clouds of Darkness gather above the Internet as Vendors make it ever easier for the Unannointed to Lay Hands upon the Arcane Protocols that protect Humankind from Anarchy. Email Battles goes biblical..."
• Feds slacking in shift to next-generation IPv6 2 years, 10 months ago
  
  The federal government is hoping to shift all of its computers to run on the next-generation Internet by 2008, but so far only the Defense Department seems to be ready for the switch.
• A new mail protocol Please.... 4 years, 2 months ago
  
  Kelly McNeill writes "If you're frustrated with the current status of e-mail innovation you're not alone. The growing number of e-mail insecurities and exploits seem to grow exponentially every day. Has e-mail innovation hit its peak for innovative technology or is there opportunity for new advances? The following osViews editorial contributer has some compelling ideas for advancements in the way of e-mail communication that are worth hearing."
• NC State Scientists Develop Breakthrough Internet Protocol 4 years, 2 months ago
  
  Researchers in North Carolina State Universityâs Department of Computer Science have developed a new data transfer protocol for the Internet that makes todayâs high-speed Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connections seem lethargic.
• Who Will Win the SMTP Authentication Wars? 4 years, 2 months ago
  
  Probably the single biggest news out of last week's RSA conference was Microsoft's announcement of its Caller ID for E-Mail standard. Caller ID may be the third of the three major proposals that have been announced, but now that Microsoft has put its cards on the table, a great experiment will begin. Over the next year or so, the big players in e-mail--ISPs, software vendors, major corporate users and the government--will see which of them works best.
• IEEE Inadvertently Forcing Consumers to Adopt Alternate 802.11g Standard 4 years, 12 months ago
  
  Eric peterson writes "Earlier this week, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (aka. IEEE) finally approved an official standard for 802.11g. Unfortunately, the new standard is one third the speed that was previously promised by the organization.
• Where are the Zeroconf IM clients? 5 years, 1 month ago
  
  Eric Peterson writes "Oscast published an interesting editorial about an individual being turned on to Zeroconf networking and wanting to utilize the technology in an IM client due to the technology's ability to remain confined to an internal network (tight security) all while never having to install an IM server. Because of these reasons, Zeroconf IMHO is the most ideal instant messaging solution for business. Unfortunately, you'd never know it. PC client software is virtually non-existent."
• TightVNC: Remote X the fast, easy & secure way 5 years, 3 months ago
  
  Joe Barr writes "All in all, TightVNC was as easy to configure and use as it was to install, even when I opted for extra privacy by using a secure tunnel between Susan's machine and mine. Here's how I did it."
• Portable.NET Now 100% Free Software 5 years, 5 months ago
  
  Slashdotr discussion: rhysweatherley writes "Finally after months of hard work and bucket loads of caffeine, the DotGNU community has finally got Portable.NET to the point of...
• Comdex: .Net remains point of contention 5 years, 5 months ago
  
  A panel of developers and technology experts faced off in a debate over Microsoft's emerging Web-based development platform.
• Ximian e-mail client plays nice with Exchange server 5 years, 5 months ago
  
  Ximian last week released an update to its Evolution desktop software and its Ximian Connector for linking its desktop to a Microsoft Exchange groupware server.
• OpenOffice, OASIS aim to create office standard 5 years, 5 months ago
  
  A standards body known for creating key technologies around XML (Extensible Markup Language) said Wednesday that it has launched an effort to develop a standard file format that would allow office documents such as spreadsheets and word processing files to be opened by applications from different vendors.
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