Forrester report says most users question the value of SA.
The state reverses its position on supporting Microsoft's document format.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2007
Company combines Live efforts into Live Platform Services.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 08/01/2007
Shares of Sun Microsystems Inc. jumped more than 4 percent Tuesday, a day after the server and software maker posted its third profitable quarter in a row and showed it has made substantial progress from its long-lasting, brutal downturn.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/01/2007
Dell Inc. said it delivered its first "Made in India" computer, with hopes that production here will lift domestic sales in a market that is growing 30 percent a year.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/31/2007
Twenty-nine companies -- including Electronic Data Systems Corp., General Dynamics Corp. and AT&T Inc. -- on Tuesday were awarded a federal computer systems contract potentially worth up to $50 billion over 10 years.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/31/2007
Microsoft's continuing infatuation with Windows Vista secrecy continues, with the company posting some updates on its Windows Connect site, then pulling them down.
Microsoft has released a long-awaited Web interface for Team Foundation Server.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 07/31/2007
Adobe Systems is set to release a new version of its ColdFusion software development environment today (July 30). ColdFusion 8 provides an expanded set of tools and technologies aimed at developers building dynamic Web sites and rich Internet applications (RIAs).
- By John K. Waters
- 07/30/2007
The Object Management Group's recent BPM Think Tank conference had a lot to say about service-oriented architecture (SOA). A highlight was David S. Frankel's presentation on model-driven business process platforms. Frankel is SAP Labs' lead standards architect for model-driven systems, and he brought his expertise to bear on both the promise and the considerable obstacles involved in scaling service-oriented architectures (SOA) in the enterprise.
Tony Baer from OnStrategies livened up BPM Think Tank 2007 with his talk, "BPMs are from Venus -- SOAs from Mars." With that phrase, Baer is basically saying that business process management (BPM) provides a top-down, business-side approach to enterprise application development, while service-oriented architecture (SOA) takes a bottom-up IT approach. And they haven't met in the middle yet, so there's still a disconnect.
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie has provided a slightly clearer look at the underlying development infrastructure set to power the company's "software-plus-services" initiative.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 07/27/2007
EU regulators said Friday they have charged Intel Corp. with monopoly abuse for blocking rival computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s access to customers.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/27/2007
The much-anticipated beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 has been released this morning by Microsoft.
Dell Inc. is expanding its retail presence to Japan, where it will sell a variety of computers at Bic Camera stores.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/27/2007
A studio that specializes in developing interactive kiosks and presentations for museums selected ActiveState's Komodo integrated development environment (IDE) to create a Web-based display for the National Postal Museum's collection of stamps and objects.
According to Microsoft COO Kevin Turner, Windows Vista has outsold Apple's entire installed base in the six months that Vista has been available.
Microsoft: friend of open source software (OSS)? That's what a new Web site from the world's largest proprietary software company would have you believe.
Tomorrow, Microsoft takes the next step in effort to bridge the gap between telephone and computer, releasing to manufacturing (RTM) two key unified communications (UC) products.
Developers of software for embedded systems now have an improved tool to help produce software product variants in a more efficient fashion using a model driven development (MDD) approach. A partnership between Telelogic and BigLever Software made it possible.