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Estimate the degree of risk

The mortality rate of software vendors seems to suggest an investment banker’s strategy, but a better approach would be that of an insurance underwriter’s.

Review: Databeacon

.NET Smart Client technology helps deliver a scalable story for analyzing business data via OLAP cubes.

Review: ActiveWords

ActiveWords provides a fast and flexible way for the keyboard-oriented worker to automate tasks in Windows.

Is it time to 'Go Live'?

Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 is coming, and with it, the "Go Live" license. Should you be thinking about going live with your own applications?

Briefing : Blaze Advisor

A rules management solution for the enterprise, Blaze Advisor lets you capture business rules into a repository with flexible APIs for easy reuse.

Review: Evolution

Evolution is a source code control system designed around the notion of versioning entire components rather than just files.

Review: Superior SQL Builder

A very flexible scripting utility, Superior SQL Builder lets you create almost any text script using an innovative IDE.

Edit and Continue: useful tool or disaster in waiting?

With the recent announcement that C# is gaining Edit and Continue, developers are considering the pros and cons of the feature. Can't we all just get along?

Apps get down to global business

Here are recent success stories highlighting software application development projects that are making a difference to businesses around the world.

Review: Stylus Studio

Stylus Studio provides a full-featured XML development environment at a reasonable price point.

Innovators 2004

2004 Innovators create applications that make a difference locally and globally.

Review: ZaneBug

Unit-testing tools for .NET are proliferating these days. ZaneBug brings some innovative new features to the familiar NUnit base.

Review: Omea Reader

With Omean Reader, the RSS reader grows into an information manager. It's an interesting direction.

RFID: Radio goes high tech

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is exciting some retailers and frightening some consumer privacy advocates. But whatever else it is, it appears to be one of the next big challenges for IT.

Recent writings of Tony Baer in ADT

Tony Baer is principal with Demand Strategies, a New York-based consulting firm, and editor of Computer Finance, a monthly journal on IT economics. He shares his insights regularly with readers of Application Development Trends and adtmag.com. Here is a sampling of recent writings.

Review: Desaware Licensing System 1.1

This client-server licensing system for .NET is improved with more samples, code obfuscation, and a lower entry price.

Review: Thinstall

Thinstall lets you shrink .NET deployment sizes by only delivering the parts of the Framework that you really need - among other benefits.

Review: CodeRush 1.1.1 with Refactor!

A great tool for the keyboard-oriented Visual Studio .NET developer, now made even better with the addition of refactoring functionality.

Review: IMSL C# Numerical Library

A tried and true numerical analysis tool comes to native C# code.