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.
Development efforts are growing, and they’re finishing on time, according to new Evans Data research.
ADT’s Kathleen Richards recently spoke with Ted Farrell, chief architect, vice president of tools and middleware at Oracle. Farrell discussed Oracle’s approach to SOA and his views on where the market is headed this year.
Virtualization vendor VMware has released the public beta of its Workstation 6.0 product.
Analyst Ronald Schmelzer of Zapthink writes in a recent report that the concept of service-oriented architecture is rapidly reaching global acceptance.
Microsoft has signed up more than 100 partners who say they will support its Network Access Protection, or NAP, technology for protecting the network from edge devices such as roaming laptops through quarantine and remediation, the company said last Thursday.
To accompany the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft yesterday announced the final release of a toolkit for assuring that applications will run correctly under the new system.
Borland Software announced this week it is shipping its Gauntlet automated build and test software, adding another piece to its lifecycle quality management, or LQM, tools offering.