Application Development Trends' News


Microsoft Launches SaaS Push with Dynamics CRM 4.0 Release

CRM product is expected by year's end.

2008: Year of the Vista Patch?

Vista SP1 includes more than 300 fixes.

Microsoft Releases Beta of Key Virtualization Product

Hyper-V is pushed out ahead of time.

Microsoft Research Spin-Off Seeks To Better Mobile Browsing

Zumobi, until last month known as ZenZui, seeks to address key shortcoming of mobile browsers -- that they are slow and hard to navigate.

Opera Levies Antitrust Suit Vs. Microsoft

Claims that bundling Internet Explorer with Windows stifles competition.

Opera Levies Antitrust Suit vs. Microsoft

Browser maker Opera Software has cried foul, charging Microsoft with antitrust behavior in a complaint to the European Commission.

ELC and FiveRuns Team on Enterprise Ruby on Rails

Companies advocate a hosted monitoring solution to improve the performance of RoR applications in the enterprise.

Microsoft's Partners Are Up for SaaS, Survey Suggests

An IDC survey found that a majority of partners expect to see opportunities from the hosted solutions model of software delivery.

Centric CRM Releases Suite, Becomes 'Concursive'

Company adds Web authoring, content management and collaboration technologies to customer relationship management solution.

LinkedIn API To Bring 'Some' Partners Into Social Net Fold

LinkedIn, the business-centric social networking site, this week talked more about opening up its "platform" to select partners

IBM alphaWorks Adds Two Web Services

The free offerings include a mashup maker for Ruby on Rails developers and a social networking content-sharing tool.

No Surprises in Last Patch Tuesday for 2007

As expected, the last Patch Tuesday offers fixes for seven vulnerabilities -- three of them critical -- and possibly sets the tone for 2008 as the "year of the Vista Patch."

Former Microsoft Program Manager Accused of Stealing +$1M

Case involves charges for domain name purchases.

Dev Teams Hobbled by Poor Metrics, Study Suggests

A Borland-sponsored report indicates that managers need a more rigorous way of estimating business value in software development projects.

Former Microsoft Program Manager Accused of Stealing +$1M

Carolyn M. Gudmundson, a former Microsoft program manager for MSDN, faces arraignment this week on 18 felony counts of wire and mail fraud in the U.S. District Court of Washington, Western District of Washington, Seattle.

Microsoft Posts Office Live Workspace Beta

Redmond rolled out its next entry in its "Software Plus Services" offerings.

Borland To Add Business Intelligence to ALM Solutions

Company plans to offer solutions with business intelligence capabilities by the middle of next year.

Red Hat Bundles Tooling and Runtime in New JBoss IDE

JBoss Developer Studio provides more open source options for enterprise application developers.

Microsoft Releases ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

The community technology preview will include an option to use a model view controller, which may help some developers write unit tests and better maintain code.

Microsoft Releases Entity Framework Beta 3

Framework supports .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 RTM versions.