Although the Apple Mac platform was long ago counted out by a lot of corporate IT managers, it has morphed and continues to find adherents -- the graphic arts in particular have persisted as a major stronghold. And the Mac platform may even be thriving again in the science sector where it once held some dominance on the desktop.
Borland last week began shipping the latest version of its requirements management tool, CaliberRM 6.0. Part of Borland's application life-cycle management portfolio, CaliberRM is designed to help software development teams align application changes to an organization's business needs, said Borland product manager David Walker.
Microsoft just released some software under a legitimate open source license.
Has the company lost its collective mind, or is this just more good business?
Steve Ballmer, CEO at Microsoft Corp., and Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO at Sun Microsystems Inc., agreed to bury the hatchet after many years of hostility. This ushers in a new era of cooperation with enhanced interoperability between software products,
It was widely reported recently that Bill Gates thinks hardware will be
practically free in 10 years. What does that mean to us as developers?
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.