Application Development Trends' News


Zend Offers PHP App Server and Dev Tools

Enterprise-grade tools, part of the Eclipse development platform, are now available.

IBM Opens Jazz Dev Community

All registered developers can now contribute to open standards collaboration solutions being developed at Jazz.net.

'Big Easy' Subsidy Program To Put Dollars in Microsoft Partners' Pockets

System builders can now get a piece of the $10 million program.

IBM Buys AptSoft To Boost BPM-SOA Line

AptSoft's business event processing technology is seen as a key addition to IBM's business process management and service-oriented architecture solutions.

Microsoft Opens Up Vista Virtualization

Redmond is also buying a desktop virtualization vendor.

'Windows 7' May Arrive in Second Half of 2009

Vista's successor may become available sooner than anticipated.

Strongspace's 10-Day Crash Highlights Web Storage Risks

Company's server bug suggests that end users of hosted services may need an alternative data backup plan.

Analysts: 'Inside Job' Among Top IT Security Concerns for '08

SANS Institute report highlights internal security threat for the enterprise.

WSO2 Releases Web Services Framework for Ruby

Company adds additional scripting language capability to open source SOA platform.

Survey: Leopard Tops in Consumer OS Satisfaction, Vista Far Behind

Consumer survey gives high marks to Apple's new OS.

Microsoft, Citrix Team Up on Virtualization

Efforts meant to help compete against VMware.

Microsoft Releases Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

The library add-on helps support Microsoft Office 2007-type projects.

Microsoft Releases Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Beta

Microsoft in January released the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack, which extends the VC++ 2008 Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) libraries that shipped with the Visual Studio 2008 IDE.

Strongspace's 10-Day Crash Highlights Web Storage Risks

For the past 10 days, Sausalito, Calif.-based online document and storage hosting company Joyent struggled to get its online secure document collaboration service, Strongspace, back online.

'Windows 7' May Arrive in Second Half of 2009

Following reports that Microsoft released "Milestone 1" for Windows 7 to several partners, TG Daily reports that software will get released in late 2009.

Analysts: 'Inside Job' Among Top IT Security Concerns for '08

Browser-based attacks, bot vector incursions, targeted phishing, mobile hacking and insider espionage rank as top five security menaces for 2008.

News Analysis: Is Green IT Falling Short?

Green IT. Everyone wants it or is paying lip service about wanting it.

Survey: Leopard Tops in Consumer OS Satisfaction, Vista Far Behind

ChangeWave says Apple's Leopard operating system gets high marks from consumers, with Vista editions trailing the pack.

'Volta': Extending.NET to Multi-Tier Apps

Last month, Redmond released an early build of "Volta," a set of tools for building Web apps that run across multiple tiers.

Microsoft: VBA's Demise 'Greatly Exaggerated'

Microsoft this week took steps to assure Office developers that it has no plans to kill off Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).