Will tomorrow's software developers go Hollywood? They will if Web software pioneer Jeremy Allaire is right about the growing value of Macromedia's Flash plug-in. -Mar. 6, 2002
As more work is done with Web services, some developers say they are encountering "limitations" in the technology. -Mar. 7, 2002
Question for Web services champions: Once the world is overrun with the technology, who's going to keep track of Web services to let them be used efficiently? -Mar. 7, 2002
Loudcloud Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based hosting management services provider, last week signed an agreement to acquire smaller MSP rival Frontera Corp., Los Angeles. -Mar. 5, 2002
Richard A. Clarke, White House Special Advisor for Cyber Security,
plugged his proposal for the creation of Govnet, a private network
exclusively for sensitive government computers at the annual RSA
Security Conference held last week in San Jose, Calif. -Feb 27, 2002
U.S. cyber security czar Richard A. Clarke kicked off the eleventh
annual RSA Security Conference last week with a warning that future
terrorists may exploit glaring weaknesses in this country's computer
systems. -- Feb. 27, 2002
Struggling Corel Corp. unveiled a new brand name and a new strategy at
last week's Seybold Seminars conference in New York. XML and content management are part of the plan. --Feb. 27, 2002
Collaborative software maker TeamShare has just
released TeamTrack 5.5, which the company sees as a defect-tracking
solution that can expand beyond the developer team to meet the needs
of business managers.
Lost in the energetic hyperbole surrounding its roll out is the fact that Visual Studio
.NET is the first Microsoft product to emerge from the company's new
Trustworthy Computing initiative.
In the midst of a dramatic repositioning as a Web services vendor, application server pioneer SilverStream Software announced poor financial results for Q4/01. Software license revenue was $5.5 million vs. $12.3 million in Q4/OO. The company also announced layoffs of more than 100 people.
Despite a burst of attention directed at new languages like Java and C#, C++ use continues to grow. At the same time, .NET-driven changes in Microsoft's popular Visual C++ tool may alienate some C++ developers. Into this scene arrives Borland Software Corp. with C++ Builder 6.
Billing it as nothing less than the 'most comprehensive development tool of
all time,' Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today rolled out
the long anticipated Visual Studio .NET software suite at the VSLive! 2002 Conference
in San Francisco.
The new software subsidiary of Palm Inc. finally got a name (PalmSource)
with the unveiling of the fresh operating system for the parent firm's
PDA.