Application Development and Programming - News, Trends and Analysis

.Net Turnabout Is Fair Play

eWeek Editors | July 23, 2001

Those loud thuds you heard earlier this month were jaws hitting the floor all over Microsoft's corporate campus.

Sun Devices Under a Cloud of Smoke

eWeek Editors | July 16, 2001

Sun Microsystems Inc. has initiated a program to replace some of its Sun Ray devices after finding a problem that can cause the systems to fail.

EDS, Sun Aim High With Partnership

Paula Musich | July 16, 2001

Electronic Data Systems Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. will launch this week a more formalized partnership to sell and promote each other's wares with a program that is expected to net the two companies a combined $3 billion in new business.

Ready for Hardball?

Anne Chen | July 16, 2001

Vendors get tough on licensing deals; how to fight back

Open Source

Jeremy Allison | July 16, 2001

Is open source software more secure than proprietary software? In a word, "yes."

Bell Heads

eWeek Editors | July 16, 2001

Voice developers of yesterday pleased with tech innovations being made possible today

Open Source Tries .Net; Future Unclear

Peter Galli | July 16, 2001

Ximian's Mono Project development could meet with resistance from Microsoft over licensing

Microsoft, VeriSign Secure .Net

eWeek Editors | July 16, 2001

Microsoft may be laying the groundwork for future control points even as it blesses the creation of an open source version of its .Net platform.

One Law? Sure, but This One Isnt It

Anne Chen | July 16, 2001

CIOs frustrated by increasingly expensive, sometimes kludgy software would be well-advised to pay attention to the status of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act as it wends its way through state legislatures.