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Yahoo Heads to Berkeley for Internet Research

As it races to keep pace with changes on the Internet, Yahoo is heading back to school. The company that operates the nations most popular...

Code Fathers Talk Programming Futures

Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. officials are sharing more and more these days, from ID management specs, to racks of servers, to keynote...

IBMs OS/2 Reaches the End of the Road

In 1987, the top songs included U2s "With or Without You" and Belinda Carlisles "Heaven Is a Place on Earth," and the top new...

OS/2 Has a Future—It Just Isnt with IBM

Ive gotten a lot of e-mail today. "Did you see IBMs news? Theyre finally killing OS/2!" wrote several longtime acquaintances, pointing me at "Changes...

The Father of C# on the Past, Present and Future of Programming

/zimages/1/109551.jpgAnders Hejlsberg is one of Microsoft Corp.s handful of distinguished engineers. He is known for having developed the Borland Turbo Pascal compiler and for...

Debian Linux: Living in Interesting Times

Around this time last year, I was expecting interesting times ahead for Debian. The long-awaited Sarge release of the popular, noncommercial Linux distribution was...

Is .Net Failing to Draw Venture Capital Loyalty?

Despite Microsofts claims that its .Net platform is sprouting its own ecosystem and is undergoing substantial adoption in the industry, some say the adoption...

VMware Will Charge Per Socket for Dual Core

VMware is readying its virtual machine product line to support dual-core processors, and says it will charge for its technology on a per-socket basis. The...

Offshore Outsource Savings Can Be Elusive, Survey Shows

Enterprises that expect to reap hefty savings simply as a result of assumed lower employee costs provided by offshore IT outsourcing services will be...

Father of Java Talks Futures

James Gosling, the creator of Java as well as a Sun Microsystems Inc. fellow and chief technology officer of Suns Developer Products group, sat...