Application Development Trends' News


Microsoft's Open Spec Is Bad for GPL, Law Group Says

Analysis by the Software Freedom Law Center states that Microsoft's open specification promise provides "no assurance to GPL developers."

Mono Project To Release Dev Tool and New Beta

Solutions help port Microsoft .NET apps to Linux.

Network Time Protocol Updated for Improved Granularity, IPv6

Clock syncing mechanism gets a windup with Internet Protocol Version 6.

NSA Extends Access Control to Network Storage

The National Security Agency is leading an effort to extend its access control work into the arena of network file storage. The effort involves integrating NSA's Flask mandatory access control (MAC) architecture -- now the basis of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) -- into the Network File System (NFS) protocol widely used for network-attached storage devices.

Report: Further Declines in Computer Science, but Turnaround May Be on the Horizon

The number of new CS majors actually showed a slight increase in 2007.

Microsoft To Acquire Desktop Virt Vendor Kidaro

Redmond sets its sights on desktop virtualization solution vendor.

Convergence 2008 Highlights Useability and Services

Office-like interface and customer deployment options emphasized at Microsoft Dynamics users' event.

Nortel, Microsoft Add to Joint Unified Communications Line

New products are based on the companies' collaboration on server integration.

Mobile Routing Protocol Advances

The Naval Research Laboratory researchers are helping develop a set of routing protocols for setting up mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs).

Lawsuit May Have Driven Vista Virtualization

Court document states that Vista was opened to virtualization in response to a Phoenix Technologies lawsuit.

Murdoch Out; Yahoo Continues Fighting Microsoft

News Corp. buyout of Yahoo won't happen, Chairman says.

Patch Tuesday Fixes Critical Excel, Outlook, Web Component and Office Flaws

Security problems in Microsoft Office suite addressed in latest patches.

Sun-Microsoft Collab Results in Interop Center

Both companies also develop guidelines for implementing Exchange Server 2007 on Sun server and storage hardware.

SOA Excellence: Some Lessons Learned

The role of governance was highlighted by Thomson Financial's chief architect in a SOA Forum talk.

SaaS on the Rise With Small-to-Medium Businesses

Big businesses, with their larger infrastructures, are not as interested, report suggests.

Coral8 Updates CEP Software

New solution adds querying capabilities using SQL.

CodeGear Releases 3rd Rail 1.1, Donates Ruby Debugger

Company donates debug tool to Eclipse project.

Novell VP Openly Laments Microsoft Deal

According to IDG news service, Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza publicly decried his company's patent licensing deal with Microsoft at Redmond's MIX08 conference last week in Las Vegas.

Software AG Releases Mainframe Modernization Suite

Solutions aim to make it easier to modernize applications using a service-oriented architecture.

Software AG Releases Mainframe Modernization Suite

Enterprise solution provider Software AG announced its webMethods Application Modernization Suite -- software designed to bring service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology and other improvements to standard mainframe infrastructures.