A group of developers at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign released CodeCrawler, a Web-based search engine tailored for developers to search source code.
orm migration programs are nothing new, and neither are strategic partnerships, but IBM and Red Hat's Solaris-to-Linux server migration program throws a spotlight on some significant trends around Linux, the server market and persistent perceptions of Solaris creator Sun Microsystems.
On Java’s 10th birthday, Javarss.com sums up the impact Java has had on the technology industry: “4 million Java developers. 1.75 billion devices run Java. Java is everywhere.”
Complexity for complexity's sake is never a good thing, but complexity itself isn't always a bad thing. A modern MRI machine, for example, is much more complex than an X-ray machine, but the former device is also a vastly superior diagnostic tool.
Through 2007, enterprises will spend close to a COBOL developer’s salary if they choose to train that developer in Java and then retain the developer.
IBM recently introduced the Availability Monitoring Toolkit, which would help developers determine—in an ad hoc manner—the status of a variety of services.
The Java Development Kit Community is seeking interested parties to help create its project page, which details projects that are being developed as part of the community and defines the available roles.
OASIS said yesterday that its members approved the OpenDocument file format as a standard. OpenDocument is a royalty-free, XML-based file format that covers features required by text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents.
Imagine this scenario: you’re having computer problems, you call up your company’s help desk, explain the situation and then they tell you to reboot your computer. Your computer’s rebooted and you’re still having problems.
Technology and organizational changes are coming in every area of IT, and they are going to have a profound impact on virtually all of the 11 million IT professionals around the world—and eventually, everyone, everywhere.
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are collaborating to enhance interoperability between .NET- and Java-based technologies.
With Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft's strategy is to break down the distinction between smart phones and Pocket PC devices, says Mike Hall, technical product manager in Microsoft’s mobile and embedded devices group.
Like it or not, your company is teeming with wireless devices, from cell phones to smart phones, PDAs to BlackBerrys, and plenty of wireless laptops.
Skeptics who question Microsoft’s decision to integrate its .NET CLR with SQL Server 2005 tend to use the language of doomsayers such as Jeremiah or Cassandra to make their points. They believe in-process CLR is an insanely bad idea that could jeopardize the scalability and reliability of SQL Server.
PalmOne unveiled its much-anticipated LifeDrive, a mobile device the company says is the first in a newly created category of devices it calls the mobile manager. The PDA-plus drew considerable attention after Amazon.com inadvertently offered it for sale in its Web catalog earlier this month.
It’s a good bet a market is on the verge of going mainstream when Microsoft starts paying attention to it. So when the software giant last week announced its first business performance management offering, code-named Maestro, some folks took that as confirmation that BPM as a mainstream technology practice has arrived.
Oracle and Zend Technologies are jointly developing a PHP 5.0 distribution that includes integration with the Oracle database client library. The new Zend Core for Oracle is a pre-built stack for PHP developers designed to make it easier to develop and deploy applications with the Oracle database.
There’s been a lot of talk about what IBM’s billion-dollar acquisition of data integration specialist Ascential Software Corp. might mean for customers, but little speculation about what’s in store for programmers.
Enterprise licensing models are “throttling grid computing deployments,” so software companies need to develop new models if grid is to continue to grow in commercial markets.
Infravio has released a white paper with guideless for building what it describes as an “intentional SOA.” The papers describes architectural requirements and standards for building out an SOA, including SOA design-time and runtime components.