Microsoft's Prashant Sridharan lifts the covers on widely anticipated 'Orcas' and 'Rosario,' and offers a view of new Microsoft initiatives aimed at both corporate and junior-level developers.
Open-source Java application server offers better support for SOA and Web 2.0 applications.
Microsoft announced Monday it has bought out devBiz Business Solutions, a company that specializes in software development tools and components for professional .NET developers.
A number of companies announced tools to support enterprise applications using AJAX technology last week. Here are some of those announcements to date.
Companies providing service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions for the enterprise issued announcements about new products, partnerships and deals last week. Here are some of them to date.
Oracle Corp. released version 3.0 of its free, browser-based application development tool, Application Express.
ActiveState has released a new version of its Perl development kit to create self-contained executable files for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX platforms.
Adobe announced it is shipping an alpha release of its "Apollo" cross-operating system Web applications platform, with commercial release scheduled for later this year.
The IT Architect Skills Library has opened online, providing resources for aspiring architects.
Microsoft is shipping the second beta release of Design, a graphics tool that's part of the company's Expression Studio suite.
IBM facilitates SOA deployments, Vitria rolls out open SOA platform, and more.
Microsoft this week began shipping the release candidate for Expression Blend, its new design tool for building Windows user interfaces using the .NET Framework 3.0’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
Visual FoxPro 9 will be the end of the line for Microsoft's under-appreciated desktop database developer tool, the company formally told third-party developers Tuesday.
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) developers should toss out their traditional waterfall development approach, according to a new white paper from the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).
Quest Software has released a new Java code-checking tool; other Java developments include a visualization tool and NetBeans Ruby pack.
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) presents both promise and peril for corporate developers tasked with developing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
The budding worldwide software as a service (SaaS) market will see an upward trend over the next four years, according to Gartner Inc.
The Eclipse Foundation has announced three new project milestone releases that extend the open-source Eclipse framework to support AJAX and dynamic programming languages, such as Python, Ruby, and Tcl.
The application server marketplace isn’t the exclusive playground of J2EE and .NET: CICS is amply represented, market watcher IDC says
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