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.
IBM and Nortel last week announced an agreement to use each other’s technology, with the goal being to foster development of new applications.
Zapthink analyst Jason Bloomberg writes in a whitepaper that enterprises must leverage legacy assets like mainframe computers when pursuing a SOA.
For developers who are interested in Microsoft’s plans for software as a service (SaaS), the company has published a sample application illustrating how it’s done.
When CodeGear, the new development tools subsidiary of Borland, offered Peter Varhol a preview of the new Turbo development tools, he jumped at the opportunity. While he looked at Turbo C#, he spent the most time working with Turbo Delphi--a language that can be described as Pascal on steroids.
At Embedded World 2007 in Nuremberg, Germany Tuesday, Microsoft announced it is shipping a developers kit for the smallest of its device systems.
Novell and Microsoft on Monday presented an update on the two firms’ progress in their November deal to make nice and work more closely together.
Microsoft is preparing a spring release for an identity management infrastructure tool aimed at simplifying credential administration across the enterprise.
With last week’s release of a new PerformancePoint Community Technology Preview (CTP), Microsoft has at least a plausible reason to crow.
Oracle Corp.’s other data integration and ETL tool, acquired just months ago from the former Sunopsis, has arrived.
Open source group SourceForge.net is shipping version 1.0 of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) add-in for Microsoft Word 2007, the organization said in a statement.
Over the last twelve months, business intelligence (BI) vendors have really talked up the importance of small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers.
Microsoft released the February CTP of Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) last week.