Stanford University junior Daniel Wright wins the 2002 Sun Microsystems Inc. and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge.
With the future of his company on the line, Bill Gates took the stand this week in U.S. District Court. Gates raised the specter of a fragmented Windows operating system if the court mandates changes in established Microsoft business practices. -- April 23
Princeton Softech said it has closed a deal with Apax Partners Inc. and co-investor LLR Partners Inc. that will enable the software company to spin-off from its parent, Computer Horizons Corp.
Fresher Information Corp., and its Matisse database technology, has made a number of moves to expand in a specialized segment of the database industry.
Hewlett-Packard unveils plans to offer the HP Utility Data Center (UDC).
WealthEngine.com chooses Metaserver Inc. software to integrate the various data sources used in identifying and screening prospects for charities and non-profit groups.
A second preview version of the much-anticipated Lindows operating system shipped
last week, but users said the latest implementation still cannot run Microsoft
applications, the ultimate goal of creator Linux.com, and few expect a final
version to ship as scheduled this spring.
Microsoft Corp. development tools managers put forward the company’s evolving vision for XML-based Web services at the Tech.Ed 2002 conference in New Orleans. --Apr. 12
Careful planning and a dedication to sharing data across divisions, not bigger IT budgets, is the key to improving IT productivity, says Roy Dunbar, CIO at Eli Lilly & Co.
One of the biggest problems with Web services, said David Chappell and Tyler
Jewell, is explaining it -- that is, pulling all the pieces together into a
coherent and hype-free description of what Web services are and how developers
can create and deploy them.
SSA Global Technologies has acquired the supply chain management, financial
management and human resource management product lines of the Computer Associates
interBiz applications division. -Apr. 8
Open source software continues to win adherents among a range of software developers,
but especially among corporate coders, who tech watchers said are transforming
it into a standard way to build and deliver software. Analysts at Stamford,
Conn.-based research and consulting firm Meta Group predict that the trend will
continue and strongly urge IT development units to be ready for it.
IT departments are dealing with more data than ever, but it is locked up in
a patchwork of disparate repositories: legacy systems, relational databases,
data warehouses, Web pages, e-mail and the like.
A slew of vendors, including host Sun Microsystems Inc., used the JavaOne
platform to pushed to extend the Wireless Revolution. -Apr. 2, 2002
Sun has outlined several plans for Web services during, including the availability of the second early access release of the
Java Web Services Developer Pack (WSDP). -Apr. 2, 2002
Sybase Inc. turns to longtime tools rival Borland Software Corp. in an effort to gain a foothold in the Java development tool battle.
Eternal releases versions of FT/ORB and NIFTI fault-detector notifier software.
Embarcadero Technologies unveils a version of its Describe UML design tool that runs within IBM's WebSphere Studio Application Developer.
At JavaOne, Sun outlines its plans for the SunONE Platform for Network Identity.
JavaOne 2002 will make the case for Java over Microsoft and .NET as the platform of choice in the emerging world of Web services.