Electric Cloud's automated software development process offering will now integrate with VMWare's Lab Manager, the company said Wednesday.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/07/2007
Google's attempt to take a leading role in social networking has some pundits saying yet another Google vs. Microsoft battle scenario is playing out.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/06/2007
In announcing today that it will release to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 this month, Microsoft is meeting the most optimistic forecasts for when the long anticipated upgrade to its flagship IDE would ship.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/05/2007
The ongoing file format battle between proponents of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) took a surprising turn lthis week, when a key ODF proponent announced that it intended to abandon the ISO-approved specification.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/02/2007
Google's attempt to grab moral high ground in the social networking development is a step in the right direction, according to industry analysts.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/02/2007
The management of services by IT departments is the subject of an August 2007 report by the Aberdeen Group. The report focuses on companies that use IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-based approaches, which is a set of best practices for IT. The report specifically hones in on an ITIL discipline called IT Service Management (ITSM).
Google and IBM are providing resources to universities focusing on Internet-scale application studies.
In October, for the second time in as many months, Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" gave way to "Exploit Wednesday."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/12/2007
Open source software (OSS) is not so much the underdog in the IT world, according survey findings announced by Barracuda Networks, a provider of e-mail and Web security appliances.
HP is offering its Business Technology Optimization solutions as both an on-premises installed solution and as a hosted solution delivered via software-as-a-service (SaaS). The SaaS option is not well known, perhaps, but it's a growing part of HP's general software strategy.
Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/08/2007
In a surprise move, Microsoft said today it is releasing the reference source code for the .NET Framework libraries, a key step toward opening up the proprietary development platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/03/2007
Microsoft today rolled out a new service for its Office suite that adds online collaboration features but still requires documents to be created and edited on the desktop.
Microsoft wants to help you build cloud data services with its Astoria code-named technology, a free download now in beta.
Software AG has added to its CentraSite governance solution products with a new CentraSite Governance Edition. It's part of a suite of solutions that Software AG offers to businesses deploying service-oriented architectures (SOAs).
There are important differences between consumer Web 2.0 applications and next-gen Web apps in the enterprise, said Oracle's Chief Architect Ted Farrell, and developers who want their applications to succeed in the latter environment need to appreciate those differences.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/28/2007
Microsoft released several major updates for its Windows lineup today, including the first release candidate (RC) for Windows Server 2008 and the initial public beta for Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1.
Although Microsoft had hoped to release a CTP of its newest database server every 60 days, the latest test release will slip, company officials acknowledged this week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/21/2007
The no-cost alternatives for Microsoft Office just keep growing: IBM announced yesterday that it is now offering Lotus Symphony, a free suite of "enterprise-grade" software featuring word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications for Windows and Linux.
Microsoft has re-organized its developer division, tapping .NET Framework head Jason Zander to oversee the team that puts together Visual Studio, the company's flagship development environment.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/17/2007