Application Development Trends' News


Microsoft: SQL Server 2008 Will Be Late

Timeline will slip to third quarter, according to blogger.

VMware Manages the Release Lifecycle

Company unveiled its virtualization management beta, which aims to ease the task of IT administrators who track software changes across the enterprise.

Macs Vulnerable to Malware? Say It Ain't So!

Popularity and poor security practices may lead to more attacks.

Sun's MySQL Move: A Win-Win

Most analysts believe the acquisition benefits both companies and is a signature milestone in Sun's long and painstaking trek back to relevancy.

A Closer Look: Oracle Acquires BEA

The move seems to have come out of nowhere. What does it all mean?

Rackspace Gets Into Virtualization

IT hosting company responds to customer demand for virtual servers.

Vista SP1 May Arrive Feb. 15

A rumor is spreading across the Web that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) may be scheduled to arrive on Feb. 15.

Microsoft Wrap: Vista, IE7 and .NET 3.5 Updates

Vista SP1 may arrive next month, plus additional news from Redmond.

Microsoft Posts .NET 3.5 Framework Download

Yesterday, Microsoft posted the final version of the .NET Framework 3.5 to its download site, as well as several updates to other .NET Framework versions.

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.