Application Development News & Articles


Nokia To Acquire Trolltech

The deal opens the way for Trolltech's cross-platform Qt app framework to get a wider foothold across desktop and mobile devices.

Zimbra Selects Webtide's Dynamic Web Solution

Company added push server technology to support its dynamic Web-based e-mail and collaboration software.

MuleSource Kicks Into SOA Governance

An open source governance solution for service-oriented architectures was released by the company, along with other SOA products.

Adobe Throttles Up Flash Media Server

Company offers two upgrade options to support streaming media.

Microsoft: SQL Server 2008 Will Be Late

Timeline will slip to third quarter, according to blogger.

VMware Manages the Release Lifecycle

Company unveiled its virtualization management beta, which aims to ease the task of IT administrators who track software changes across the enterprise.

Sun's MySQL Move: A Win-Win

Most analysts believe the acquisition benefits both companies and is a signature milestone in Sun's long and painstaking trek back to relevancy.

A Closer Look: Oracle Acquires BEA

The move seems to have come out of nowhere. What does it all mean?

Rackspace Gets Into Virtualization

IT hosting company responds to customer demand for virtual servers.

Microsoft Wrap: Vista, IE7 and .NET 3.5 Updates

Vista SP1 may arrive next month, plus additional news from Redmond.

Zend Offers PHP App Server and Dev Tools

Enterprise-grade tools, part of the Eclipse development platform, are now available.

IBM Opens Jazz Dev Community

All registered developers can now contribute to open standards collaboration solutions being developed at Jazz.net.

'Big Easy' Subsidy Program To Put Dollars in Microsoft Partners' Pockets

System builders can now get a piece of the $10 million program.

Microsoft Opens Up Vista Virtualization

Redmond is also buying a desktop virtualization vendor.

Strongspace's 10-Day Crash Highlights Web Storage Risks

Company's server bug suggests that end users of hosted services may need an alternative data backup plan.

WSO2 Releases Web Services Framework for Ruby

Company adds additional scripting language capability to open source SOA platform.

Microsoft, Citrix Team Up on Virtualization

Efforts meant to help compete against VMware.

Microsoft Releases Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

The library add-on helps support Microsoft Office 2007-type projects.

Microsoft Begins Releasing Source Code for .NET Framework Libraries

Source code has been released under a read-only license agreement.

Microsoft Eliminates MEDC; Content Going to Other Conferences

Redmond's MEDC will be rolled into ESC and Tech Ed 2008.