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Iona Delivers Next-Gen Enterprise Service Bus

Iona Technologies plc. announced Monday a new version of its Artix enterprise service bus for mission-critical IT environments. Artix 3.0 delivers three kinds of features...

Compuware Settles IBM Lawsuit

Compuware Corp. and IBM on Monday announced a settlement to their intellectual property and anti-trust litigation that calls for IBM to license $140 million...

When Doing More Is Worth It

Warning bells sound in my head when I read or hear any variant on the phrase, "without programming." Dozens of thousands of Web pages...

Microsoft Deal Gives Great Plains Analytical Upgrade

Microsoft Corp. is acquiring code from a little-known analytics company that should help the software maker beef up analytics capabilities in Microsoft Business Solutions...

Microsoft Pays Burst.com $60m

Burst.com Inc., the santa Rosa, Calif., developer of video and audio delivery software, has reached an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to settle its antitrust...

Open-Source Options Catch On with More Developers

As open-source software stacks emerge as viable alternatives to proprietary solutions for many users, several open-source components are showing promise for developers. The Java-based Spring...

nLayers Improves on InSight

Growing interest in application discovery and dependency mapping has a handful of startups working to improve the technology with better integration and scalability. nLayers Inc....

Visual Studio 2005 Ship Date Slips Again

Microsoft Corp. Monday announced that the much-anticipated next version of its developer tools suite will ship in the second half of 2005 in several...

Open-Source Developers: Microsoft Licensing Must Be GPL-Compatible

European open-source developers say the European Commissions rejection of Microsofts protocol-licensing plan is a positive sign. But they say the commission will have to...

Could Ajax Wash Away Smart Clients?

A key premise behind Microsofts "smart client" pitch is that Web apps are not as good as fat/rich/locally based ones. Microsoft defines smart clients as...