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Nokia to buy software developer Trolltech for $153M (Washington Post) - Nokia has offered to buy Trolltech, the Norwegian developer of a widely used application framework, for 844 million Norwegian kroner (US$153 million) in cash. Nokia hopes the Trolltech development team will give its own software efforts a boost.

Ballmer: Software Vision Will Continue (InternetNews.com) - Whether Microsoft wins or loses its bid to buy Yahoo, the company is on an inexorable path to fulfill its software-plus-services vision.

UTMB says worrisome software runs smoothly (Galveston County Daily News) - GALVESTON — Despite concerns from consultants who rated the project as poor, nearly $32 million in PeopleSoft software is running smoothly, University of Texas Medical Branch officials say.

Free Book Offer: Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (Linux Today) - Get your free copy to get a broad and thoughtful view on how to approach software engineering from a value-up paradigm.

Software creates DIY health records (Chicago Sun-Times) - WASHINGTON — Just like with do-it-yourself taxes, a growing software industry lets patients create their own ‘‘personal health records.’’

Outside software adds value to iTunes (Chicago Tribune) - You don't need to rely on Apple Inc. to improve iTunes, the market-leading music-management software. I've been using two services that have made iTunes more useful and, when buying music, more affordable.

Result for: software license (DB2 Magazine) - The authorization to use software. Most software is licensed rather than sold, which means purchasers are never the actual owners of the software, although they may be able to use it without any time limit.

Microsoft Partnerships, Open Source Software ISVs, and Culture and History (Addict 3D) - Once More Unto the Breach: "First, if you sell software solutions, and one of the platforms you support is Windows, you're not alone.

Gartner predicts 80% of all commercial software will embed open source by 2012 (CNET) - This is what the future looks like. Heavy adoption of open source at the core of commercial software so that developers can focus on pushing the envelope on innovation, not reinventing wheels that provide no discernible differentiation.

IBM Forges OEM Agreement with Open Sourcer Avada Software (ebizQ.net) - IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Avada Software today announced a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement to join forces to capture a larger piece of the growing open source application server market. ebizQ received the following: Under ...