I've recently been coming across some major commercial software that has gone the .NET route. It's very disappointing and sad to see great software come to this. When a software developer chooses to use/develop thier application .NET, it looses users, becomes lesser in quality, and locks itself into Windows. The purpose of this article is to inform developers why they should avoid .NET.

Introducing the Ubercart EDI module version 1.2 (unofficial). The modifications in this version integrate FTP transfers, add a field to specify a file header, and includes a standard X12 BASIC 850 PO export format. Read more about it at: http://www.unibia.com/unibianet/enhanced-ubercart-edi-order-export-and-i....

The Drupal-Joomla Forum Importator script is avialble for download from Unibia.net. Use this script to import your Joomla Simple Boards forum into Drupal. Visit the Drupal-Joomla Forum Importator page for complete details.

PHP file uploads can be as easy as one line. If your confused about adding upload capability to your web forms, check out the Simple PHP Upload in the Unibia.net developers area.

Super Simple Shopping Cart for PHP is a very simple, yet fully functional shopping cart system programmed in PHP. Usage and integration is easy and no database is required. Find out more at the Super Simple Shopping Cart development area.

See a demo: http://www.unibia.com/unibia/dev/examples/SuperSimpleShoppingCart/

Simple MySQL programming in Java is now possible! Take a look at the Simple MySQL Java Library, designed to make MySQL Database access very similar to PHP.

This is an extremely simple implementation, no persistence, no special query language. Just direct access to you MySQL database in Java using a familiar PHP-like interface.

The Open Source software site is up, expect more free software very soon.