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New CEO Hopes to Get Borland Back on Top

SAN FRANCISCO—Borland Software Corp. introduced its new chief executive, Tod Nielsen, at its annual developer conference here Tuesday. "When you look at my career and...

Borland Hires Seasoned Software Vet as CEO

The well-traveled Tod Nielsen has landed at Borland. The former Oracle Corp. executive, former BEA Systems Inc. executive, former CrossGain executive and longtime former Microsoft...

Microsoft Commits to Two Visual Studio Service Packs

Microsoft is readying not one, but two, service packs for its Visual Studio tool suite. The company is readying simultaneously SP1 (Service Pack 1) for...

W3C Group Works to Standardize Web Rules

The World Wide Web Consortium has created a group aimed at standardizing the rules that deliver data across the Web.The RIF (Rule Interchange Format)...

New Zend IDE Beefs Up Web Services

Zend Technologies Inc. Tuesday continued its strategic move into the enterprise market with the release of a new PHP development platform, Zend Studio 5,...

iAnywheres Database Server Courts Coders

Sybase Inc. subsidiary iAnywhere on Tuesday announced version 8.0 of the Advantage Database Server, which Sybase acquired through its purchase of mobile and database...

Whats Next? Virtual Chips

Next year, the world of virtualization technology will really heat up when chip makers Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. begin offering virtualization...

Readers Respond: Getting Patents Right

I am a patent attorney who has been in the field for more than 40 years. Your Oct. 24 editorial ("Getting Patents Right" or...

Next Visual Studio Release to Tackle Testing

While developers are busy this week digesting the new features and upgrades in Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Corp. already is looking ahead to the...

Sun Debuts New Tape Drive

Sun Microsystems Inc. is guiding tape drive technology from its Storage Technology Corp. acquisition toward an interconnected systems approach featuring data management and security...