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Microsoft Lays New Groundwork

As Microsoft Corp. released the first building blocks of its Software Factories project last week, the company laid the groundwork for a new ecosystem...

Why Measure What Cant Matter?

I was talking with someone about this years presidential election, when I said that it was silly for polls to report anything other than...

Programming Legends Debate .Net, J2EE

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—In a meeting of programming heavyweights dubbed a shootout of competing platforms, participants exhibited criticism and sarcasm, but also a grudging respect...

Envisioning the Programming Language of the Future

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—What will be the dominant programming languages a decade from now?Microsoft Corp. developer division architect Herb Sutter told attendees of the OOPSLA...

Microsoft Sharpens Its Software Factory Vision

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—In a speech at the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications—or OOPSLA—conference here, Microsoft Corp.s head researcher announced a new framework and...

MySQL Update Puts a Toe Into Big Vendors Database Turf

MySQL AB on Wednesday released into general availability a version of its open-source database with subqueries, faster and more secure client-server communication, tools that...

On Watch for Intelligent Objects

From a long tradition of unfortunate code names comes "Paparazzi," the family name announced last week for a line of wireless data devices from...

Sun Deal Targets SOA Development

Sun Microsystems Inc. and SeeBeyond Technology Corp. Tuesday announced a partnership aimed at tying the Sun Java Enterprise System to SeeBeyonds product suite to...

Macromedia Adds Muscle to Flex

Macromedia Inc. Monday announced a new version of its Flex presentation server and application framework, Flex 1.5. The San Francisco company announced Flex 1.5 just...

EULA Ruling Threatens Innovation

Sir? Yes, you—the one creating the Web services. Please step away from the computer and place your hands behind your head. And you three...