Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a new revenue model to fund free software and set his sights on a services-based mechanism.

Luca Cardelli talks about the origins of Modula-3, one of the earliest attempts at a "type-safe" language.

Vendor touts Launchpad's collaborative features compared to competitors such as SourceForge.net.

Japanese software company Fenrir is stepping up promotion of its Sleipnir browser overseas in the hope of snagging a 5% market share.

EMC upgrades its Documentum enterprise content management platform and adds tools to improve collaboration.

(Source: MKS) Software is everywhere. For example, a cell phone contains 2 million lines of code and a vehicle, 35 million. This paper speaks to the challenges that software engineering teams face in trying to keep pace with the rapid cycle of innovation and why tools for requirements change management are essential for managing and responding to rapidly changing business requirements.

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