Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) presents both promise and peril for corporate developers tasked with developing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
The budding worldwide software as a service (SaaS) market will see an upward trend over the next four years, according to Gartner Inc.
Literally just in time, Microsoft is shipping a patch for its Dynamics CRM 3.0 package that adjusts for the daylight saving time changeover coming this weekend.
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is shipping the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista – as promised.
Few would call Oracle Corp.’s acquisition of business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) giant Hyperion Solutions Corp. surprising.
The Eclipse Foundation has announced three new project milestone releases that extend the open-source Eclipse framework to support AJAX and dynamic programming languages, such as Python, Ruby, and Tcl.
Why not outsource your BI infrastructure lock, stock, and smoking-data-warehouse-appliance?
Just two weeks after shipping a major new service pack for SQL Server 2005, Microsoft is having to issue a hotfix to correct a problem some customers experienced with the update.
Motorola is spearheading an open-source project that supports SA Forum standards for high availability communications services.
The last week of February saw a number of partnerships and product rollouts in the SOA space. Here are some of the week’s announcements.
Microsoft says it is wrapping up the beta test code for its first service pack for Exchange Server 2007, and plans to begin testing the update in April.
Microsoft announced it is shipping the latest preview of its upcoming Visual FoxPro “Sedna” project.
Microsoft announced Monday the formation of what it’s dubbed the Microsoft Business Process Alliance, or BPA, an organization created to boost deployment and use of business process management tools with a focus on the BPEL standard.
ComponentOne released the latest version of its drag-and-drop tools suite for Windows, Web, mobile, and ASP.NET Ajax applications.
Microsoft is shipping final versions of six tools to aid in deployment of Windows Vista and Office 2007, although some had been previously released.
From smaller deals to an increased interest in China, the face of outsourcing is changing, a new survey reports.
Microsoft announced Monday it is shipping Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005 – an update that brings its premier database server current with features in Windows Vista and Office 2007.
Sun Microsystems is releasing new tools and expanded services to make it easier for developers to build and deploy Web infrastructures on the open-source Solaris 10 operating system.
webMethods and iTKO are joining forces to untangle the knotty problem of testing and governance in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle.
The latest dust up swirls around a Microsoft four-page open letter published on the Web on Valentine’s Day that accuses IBM of trying to block users’ choice when it comes to document formats.