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Gates on Yahoo: 'You Need Scale'

Microsoft's Chairman favorably comments on Yahoo's technological approach in the wake of an acquisition rebuff.

Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo Join OpenID Board

Industry coalition forms around single sign-on effort.

Enterprise Architects as Agents of Innovation

Achieving business innovation depends on having good communication processes in place between IT architects and business personnel, a Forrester Research talk suggested.

Microsoft Will Release Vista SP1 Early to 'Technical Customers'

IT pros voice complaints, and Redmond reschedules release date.

Study: Servers Lead Virtualization Pack

A global enterprise virtualization survey released today confirms that virtualization is becoming stronger and stronger in the enterprise, with server virtualization leading the wave.

Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo Join OpenID Board

In a move that could help deliver single sign-on to the masses, Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo have joined a consortium that backs a common federated identity specification.

GlobalLogic Expands, Offers R&D Dev Support

Outsourcing firm initiates new service to support startups and others needing software engineering expertise.

DataDirect Offers MySQL XQuery Product

Solution features querying power across both relational and XML stores.

IT Pays a Price for Poor Requirements Practices

A new survey quantifies the costs for poor requirements gathering. Companies should focus on process, rather than documentation, report argues.

Microsoft To Release Critical Patches for Vista, XP, Office, IE, Visual Basic

A grab bag of 12 security fixes will be expected on Patch Tuesday.

SugarCRM Solaris Installer To Come

Solution will facilitate deployments on Sun's OSes.

IBM Brings Cognos Into the Fold

Big Blue lays out a strategy for integrating its $5 billion BI acquisition.

Windows Kernel Flaw -- Critical But Not, Says Redmond

Security firm provides video of a proof-of-concept flaw in Microsoft's IGMP networking protocol. But Microsoft says conditions for exploitation -- as well as a fix -- keep it from doing damage in the wild.

StreamBase Updates Market Data Dev Tool

Solution is designed to help developers write programs more quickly and tap into the Reuters Market Data System.

New Microsoft Programming Language: 'D'?

Unnamed sources suggest the new language will be associated with Microsoft's Oslo project.

Q&A: Spring.NET Founder Mark Pollack

The latest version of Spring.NET, made generally available in December, is a major upgrade to the original port of the popular Spring Framework, a layered Java/J2EE application-programming model.

Apache Synapse Bumped to Top Project Status

A new version of the enterprise service bus was released.

New Microsoft Programming Language: 'D'?

All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Redmond is working on a new declarative programming language, currently named "D."

SpringSource Acquires Covalent Technologies

Companies combine forces to deliver one-stop open source enterprise solutions, combining Java-based middleware and Apache server solutions.