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Every month we bring you our most popular stories and forum topics as viewed past our readers. This month'due south articles have covered a wide array of enterprise development problems, guides and tips.

ZDNet Australia'due south Architect Top Ten for May:

  1. Java's future lies in FOSS

    Australian programmer Brandon Franklin says the time is at present for Lord's day to make Java bachelor nether a costless software licence.

  2. Interview: Bob Muglia on Longhorn

    Longhorn Server will probable be Microsoft's most complex operating system ever, and Bob Muglia has little latitude for more slips.

  3. Parsing the Builder AU RSS feed with PHP

    Learn how to use RSS and PHP to incorporate Builder AU content into your own Web site.

  4. The three-fold challenge of producing secure programs

    See why security guru John McCormick views producing secure programs as a iii-fold problem.

  5. Test software virtually

    Curt of setting upwards duplicate systems, testing new software can be a hairy exercise. Here's another style: use virtual OSes like VMWare and Virtual PC as your testing platform.

  6. An introduction to Silva

    Australian technical author Jan Smith highlights the features and functionality within Silva, an open-source content management organisation.

  7. Who really created Linux?

    It's hard to imagine that Linus Torvalds could accept launched Linux without directly using before operating system work, co-ordinate to a written report that has become controversial even before its scheduled publication.

  8. IBM to expand Linux Lab

    IBM Australia plans to boost its Linux evolution operation located in the Deed with support of the local government.

  9. Loading XML into Gecko-based browsers

    Nearly Web developers think of Microsoft Internet Explorer and either MSXML2 or MSXML3 when asked about client-side XML. Simply there is an alternative to MSXML, namely Gecko.

  10. Protocol independence in SOA

    Learn how to implement protocol independence with Soap in this article from Jeff Hanson.

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