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KDE Keeps Advancing

While Microsoft beats the drum loudly for Vista, the K Desktop Environment open-source community has more quietly been improving its popular desktop interface. The upcoming...

Plaxo Tests Contact Manager for Mozilla Thunderbird E-Mail

Plaxo on Tuesday announced the start of a public beta test program for a version of its online contact management service for the Mozilla...

Cisco Targets Large Service Providers with Sheer Buy

Cisco on Tuesday announced its intent to acquire service provider-focused network management provider Sheer Networks for $97 million. The privately held Sheer Networks Inc., based...

Upgrades Breathe New Life into CORBA, Apps

When BEA shipped its Tuxedo 9.0 transaction processing infrastructure software last week, the company ensured that its CORBA solution would continue to empower systems...

IBM Sees Future in Enterprise Collaboration

NEW YORK—Citing a new era in enterprise computing, IBM executives on Tuesday unveiled a host of new hardware, software and services aimed at increasing...

At 10, Java Is Aging Well

Few would dispute that Java was a great idea, but it takes years for even the biggest brainstorm to evolve into a technology ecosystem....

IBMs Perna Retiring After 30 Years

Leaving behind a career spanning more than 30 years of service at IBM, Janet Perna is retiring next month as general manager of data...

Whats Ahead for Java

The Java programming language turned 10 this year, and at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco last month, Sun Microsystems Inc. threw a big...

AJAX Tools Get Green Light

Several major software companies aim to cash in on the growing use of AJAX by delivering tools to help developers build applications that take...

Eclipse, NetBeans Not Always at Odds

To exploit emerging Java-based technologies, developers enjoy an expanding arsenal of tools that increasingly rest on one of two open-source foundations: Eclipse and NetBeans. This...