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Progress to Acquire Actional for $32M

Progress Software Corp. announced Thursday an agreement to acquire Actional Corp. for approximately $32 million in cash and shares of Progress common stock. In Actional,...

Lawyers Express GPL 3 Concerns

The first draft of the new GPL is out and lawyers are beginning to form their impressions of this open-source license. This first look at...

Microsoft Spins Visual Studio Live for Developers

Microsoft Corp. has begun to take a serious look at how its software-as-a-service strategy can be applied to its developer business. Last week Microsoft moved...

Salesforce.com Needs to Focus on Fundamentals

Salesforce.com has hit a couple of speed bumps in its drive to prove that an on-demand software company can be just as successful and—more...

Salesforce.com Takes Aim at Java, .Net with AppExchange

SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com began its campaign to turn its on-demand customer relationship management service into a development platform for Web applications with the official introduction...

Swords Sharpened for Ajax Projects

Developers preparing for battle on any new platform are likely to have a predictable choice of weapons. Any technology thats had time to become at...

RFID: A Class Issue?

NEW YORK—RFID promises retailers more efficient inventory plans and streamlined supply chains in the near future, but for now it delivers only to the...

HP to Support JBoss Enterprise Middleware Worldwide

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced Tuesday that it will offer worldwide support for the entire JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite of products, and certify and integrate the...

Readers Respond: Technologys Barriers to Exit

I liked Scott McNealys column on how companies dont consider the barriers to exit from a technology when they consider entering it (Guest Column,...

SPI Tool Measures Web App Security Risk

SPI Dynamics Inc. unveiled Monday a management platform for measuring Web application security risk. AMP (Assessment Management Platform) 2.0 consolidates network scanning across enterprise networks...