Science fiction sometimes offers oddly flawed images of the future. Robert Heinleins 1953 novel "Starman Jones," for example, depicted faster-than-light starship travel—with flight deck...
Microsoft Corp. last week officially confirmed that Office 12, the next version of its desktop productivity suite, will go into beta testing this fall...
Microsoft Corp. and IBM are taking decidedly different paths toward developer outreach.
While Microsofts MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network), the companys main vehicle for pushing its...
Longtime rivals and mutual antagonists Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are making progress on their year-old cooperation, having moved from the courtroom to...
LAS VEGAS—IBM is taking its strategy to woo developers to the IBM way into the classroom.
At its IBM Rational Software Developer Conference here Monday,...
OASIS, the international e-business standards consortium, announced on Monday that it has approved the Open Document Format for Office Applications Version 1.0 as a...
Whats in a name?
Back in 2003, when Sun Microsystems Inc. was considering whether it might join the then soon-to-be-independent Eclipse Foundation, one of the...
Does Sun have lunar envy?
One would never know, but given the momentum generated by the Eclipse juggernaut with the Eclipse Foundations signing of big...
SAN FRANCISCO—Driving complexity out of IT operations is a major theme of this weeks Gartner Inc.s Symposium/ITxpo here, But attendees remain skeptical that they...
The Web Services Interoperability Organization has promoted a key security document that was approved by its member community.WS-I officials Monday said the organizations "Security...
Customer experience (CX) became the top brand differentiator in 2018, outpacing price, product quality and everything else. Businesses that offer a superior and differentiated...
The trickle-down effect of enterprise IT is as old as business technology. Vendors have long aimed new innovations at enterprises whose deep pockets and...