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Developers Flock to XML Query Spec

A new survey of developers using XML has found that a vast majority are using or plan to use XML Query even before it...

2008 Will Be the Year for Emerging Tech

I shared a panel discussion spotlight this month with Ashwin Rangan, an experienced enterprise CIO, where we cordially disagreed on the pace of technology...

Software Vendors Should Come Clean on Security Holes

Most people tend to agree with the old adage: Knowledge is power. But there are some groups that think knowledge is a bad thing—knowledge...

Hyperspace to Buy PC Manufacturer

Application acceleration provider HyperSpace Communications last week agreed to acquire MPC Computers in a deal valued at about $16 million.The smaller software company is...

Microsoft Releases Indigo Preview

Microsoft Corp. last week announced availability of the first Community Technology Preview of its next-generation "Indigo" communications subsystem—a service-oriented infrastructure built on top of...

Zend, ColdFusion MX7 Can Handle Tough Enterprise Jobs

In the enterprise, when talk turns to application servers and Web scripting languages, it often seems as if the entire world consists only of...

Zend Platform 1.1 and Zend Studio 4

PHP was designed from the ground up to be a scripting language for Web applications and to be easy to understand for anyone used...

Macromedias ColdFusion MX 7

The release last month of ColdFusion MX 7 is by far the biggest since the original MX release almost three years ago. That release...

Yoga Lawsuit Taps Open-Source Spirit

Its hard to imagine that yoga, the 5,000-year-old discipline of exercise, diet and meditation, would have anything in common with the modern software industry. But...

Microsoft Claims Security Win with New Development Rules

Microsoft Corp.s application of a mandatory "Security Development Lifecycle" for all its Internet-facing products has "significantly reduced" the number—and severity—of security vulnerabilities, according to...