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Maple 10 Smooths Math Operations

Maple 10, from the MapleSoft division of Waterloo Maple Inc., strengthens a highly regarded mathematical workbench with unique facilities for building presentation documents that...

Hardening Expectations for Software Quality

A hardware manifestation of a software bug, for example the Pentium FDIV error of 1994, is so rare that people can still remember that...

Code Fathers Talk Programming Futures

Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. officials are sharing more and more these days, from ID management specs, to racks of servers, to keynote...

IBMs OS/2 Reaches the End of the Road

In 1987, the top songs included U2s "With or Without You" and Belinda Carlisles "Heaven Is a Place on Earth," and the top new...

OS/2 Has a Future—It Just Isnt with IBM

Ive gotten a lot of e-mail today. "Did you see IBMs news? Theyre finally killing OS/2!" wrote several longtime acquaintances, pointing me at "Changes...

The Father of C# on the Past, Present and Future of Programming

/zimages/1/109551.jpgAnders Hejlsberg is one of Microsoft Corp.s handful of distinguished engineers. He is known for having developed the Borland Turbo Pascal compiler and for...

Debian Linux: Living in Interesting Times

Around this time last year, I was expecting interesting times ahead for Debian. The long-awaited Sarge release of the popular, noncommercial Linux distribution was...

Is .Net Failing to Draw Venture Capital Loyalty?

Despite Microsofts claims that its .Net platform is sprouting its own ecosystem and is undergoing substantial adoption in the industry, some say the adoption...

Father of Java Talks Futures

James Gosling, the creator of Java as well as a Sun Microsystems Inc. fellow and chief technology officer of Suns Developer Products group, sat...

Microsoft Urges Developers to Prepare for IE 7

As Microsoft inches closer to the first beta release of Internet Explorer 7, the companys development advisors have been advising Web site developers and...