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Microsoft ruling draws fire from U.S. lawmakers

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.

VoiceXML 2.0 reaches W3C milestone

The Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.0 has received final "recommendation" status from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

At SD West: Microsoft’s Sutter heralds C++ standard

Microsoft Corp. is moving to assure developers that its next-generation Longhorn operating system software doesn’t signal the end of the C++ programmer.

At MDC/VSLive: Whidbey makes it to Technical Preview stage

"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.

Useful Tool: Microsoft Log Parser

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.

Java configuration management client debuts at SD-West

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.

At MDC/VSLive: Microsoft pursues place in the wireless world

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)

IBM adds shortcut to SAP NetWeaver

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.

Open-source MySQL DBMS adds clustering tech

Swedish open-source database maker MySQL AB plans to release a new clustered database product with high-availability support.

Changes ahead for software licensing says IDC

Goodbye perpetual licenses –- hello subs!

At SD West: Microsoft exec asks if for-profit software can survive open source

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 to the rescue?

"Six Sigma" is a term often bandied about in software development circles lately, but few developers know what it really means.

Bridging the Divide might be good for the bottom line

Sun says it's going to start offering software to governments at attractive per-citizen pricing terms. Let's do the math.

At SD West: Grady Booch on software

Software development has become a core business process that drives both innovation and productivity, and there's not much hope for companies that fail to recognize that fact, according to IBM's Grady Booch.

Oracle developer preview passes test for J2EE 1.4 compatibility

Oracle announced this past week that its Java developer preview of the Oracle Application Server passed Sun's Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) for J2EE 1.4.

Truly Interesting Software

Sometimes the biggest innovations come from software that you really don't want to run.

Wind River gets Linux fever

Embedded systems mainstay Wind River is telling all and sundry that it is set in a new direction with a refocused, aggressive Linux strategy.

Lock-free ANTs Data Server updated

ANTs Software Inc., a Burlingame, Calif.-based developer of SQL database management systems, recently announced availability of Version 2.2 of its ANTs Data Server.