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SAP Sketches Out Plans for the Long Haul

With a fervor not generally seen in earning calls, SAP AG laid out its plans for 2006—as well as for the next four years. During...

Microsoft Releases New Preview of Visual Basic 9.0

Microsoft has released a new Community Technology Preview of its Visual Basic 9.0 development environment. The CTP of Visual Basic 9.0 features support for Microsofts...

Meet the Team Charged with Making Microsoft Sparkle Shine

During the past four years, Microsoft maintained secrecy around not only the details of its planned foray into the design-tool space, but also about...

Microsofts Sparkle: Is It a Flash Killer?

Microsoft Tuesday released new previews of its upcoming tools for designers. Microsoft Interactive Designer is a product for building Avalon ("Windows Presentation Foundation" or...

Botnet Operator Pleads Guilty

A 20-year-old California man who was charged with operating a 400,000 strong "botnet" of compromised computer zombies pleaded guilty Jan. 23 and agreed to...

Sony Taps BEA for PlayStation 2 Systems

BEA Systems and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe have announced that the Sony unit has standardized on BEAs application server. Sony officials said that the company,...

Readers Respond: Engineer Gap: Real or Imagined?

The truth is, as long as a job can be outsourced for a fraction of the cost, that is exactly what will happen (Stan...

Readers Respond: Get Your Hands off That Process

The management of IT departments can be technical, and the issues that Peter Coffee cited in his Jan. 9 column are technology ones (Epicenters,...

Dog Food Doctrine Deserves Debate

Like many others whod long awaited Microsofts Visual Studio 2005, I felt more than a little let down when that development suite shipped without...

Adobe Springs New Acrobat in 3-D

Adobe Systems introduced a new software package on Jan. 23 aimed at helping manufacturers create and share documents in the name of accelerating the...