IBM has agreed to acquire privately held Candle Corp., a longstanding force in mainframe and distributed systems management software for an undisclosed sum.
The sensor network, already emerging from applications of RFID chips, will transform computing and life as we know it by 2014, predicts Gartner fellow Tom Austin.
In an industry with no shortage of acronyms, Gartner is touting a new one, SOBA, or Service-Oriented Business Applications.
IT management needs to embrace offshore outsourcing, despite the "genuine threat" of job losses, because the trend is not going to go away, asserted Michael Fleisher, chairman and CEO of Gartner. In his welcoming address to attendees at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2004 in San Diego on Monday, he argued that two popular responses, protectionism and blaming others, including the people of India and China, are doomed to failure.
Microsoft head Bill Gates, speaking at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2004, emphasized the role of visual modeling as the foundation for future software engineering advances.
Some software firms don't seem to understand that their customers have to
justify their purchases. I've put together a partial list of ways to mess up
your software marketing.
A group of U.S. lawmakers last week roundly criticized the European Commission's decision to fine Microsoft Corp. a record 497 million euros ($611 million) for anticompetitive practices.
The Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.0 has received final "recommendation" status from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Microsoft Corp. is moving to assure developers that its next-generation Longhorn operating system software doesn’t signal the end of the C++ programmer.
"The focus today will be on how mobility-, Web services-, speech- and location-type capabilities are going to come in and be aspects of applications," Bill Gates told the audience at third annual Mobile Developer Conference (MDC) in San Francisco, which shared space at the Moscone Center with the VSLive and Avios-SpeechTEK events.
This little-known tool can help you make short work of a bevy of log file
analysis problems. If you've got data in some sort of structured file that you
need to slice and dice, Log Parser can be just the tool for the job.
At the March 2004 SD West Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., McCabe introduced a new Java-enabled version of its TRUEchange client, which is designed to meet the evolving needs of development managers.
Mobile computing looms as the next domain for Microsoft to try and conquer. The company unveiled the latest upgrade to its platform for mobile applications at its third annual Mobile Developer Conference (MDC)
SAP has moved in recent years to improve the flexibility of its integration architecture. Its most recent step was to launch the NetWeaver integration platform infrastructure.
Swedish open-source database maker MySQL AB plans to release a new clustered database product with high-availability support.
Goodbye perpetual licenses –- hello subs!
How will the for-profit software industry fair if the open-source model continues to proliferate? According to Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Jim Gray, it might not survive.
"Six Sigma" is a term often bandied about in software development circles lately, but few developers know what it really means.
Sun says it's going to start offering software to governments at attractive
per-citizen pricing terms. Let's do the math.