Application Development News & Articles


VMware Teams Up With Linux Foundation

The virtualization solution provider company made its move to get closer to the Linux development community.

IBM Touts Linux Strategy with New Virt, SuSE, Supercomputer Intiatives

Plans to release its first open source software contribution for supercomputers among announcements.

Model-Driven Development Cuts the Coding

Intelliun releases J2EE tools for implementing MDD.

Sun To Open Source Java System Web Server and Web Proxy Technologies

Both will be released under BSD license; source code coming later this year.

Does Microsoft Have an Open Source Heart?

A Microsoft exec describes the company's open source outreach efforts, which is starting to gain a pulse.

Scrum: An Agile Development Favorite

Scrum has emerged as the most popular lightweight method according to Danube Technologies' founders.

Microsoft Joins Apache Software Foundation

Redmond contributes money and code to open source project.

First Look: Zimbra Web-Based E-Mail for the Desktop

A beta of this Web-based open source e-mail solution is now available.

DataDirect Offers Data Integration Suite

The product combines three tools to facilitate data integration in traditional and SOA environments.

Creator Promises Perl 6 Will Be First Truly Extensible Programming Language

Larry Wall outlines vision during his annual "State of the Onion" speech at OSCON.

Subversion SCM Tool Gets Update

CollabNet releases Subversion 1.5, an updated version of its open source software-configuration management tool.

Microsoft's Live Mesh Preview Wait-List Only

Microsoft broadened the preview access to testers of its new cloud-computing connectivity platform.

Sun Launches Java VisualVM

Free, open-source tool offers visual details for Java apps.

Oracle Releases Critical Updates

Oracle databases 9i through 11g, Oracle Application Server, Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM among products patched.

Embarcadero Releases SQL Optimizer

In its first product release since acquiring Borland's CodeGear business, Embarcadero Technologies Inc. this week released a new tool set designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases.

Sentrigo Offers Help for Database Patching Woes

Security layer product is designed to help database administrators when databases go unpatched.

Borland Announces Upcoming ALM Release

TeamDemand, TeamFocus and TeamAnalytics will launch later this year.

Microsoft Says SQL Server 2008 To Ship This Quarter

Redmond divulges tidbits of SQL Server 2008 release information at this week's Worldwide Partner Conference.

ISO/IEC Officials Allegedly Advise Rejecting OOXML Appeals

A leaked document may indicate the views of standards officials who say challenges to ISO/IEC 29500 should be dropped.

SnapLogic Leverages Amazon Cloud Platform

The company teamed with Amazon to add scalability to its hosted data integration solution.