Oracle used this week's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco to roll out new tools aimed at providing better integration of its disparate wares, but much of the focus at this year's annual event was on the company's pending $7.4 billion agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/16/2009
Several hundred software and enterprise architects this week gathered from around the world to ponder and debate how to affect improvements in how systems and applications can be better engineered and made more adaptive.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/15/2009
Proponents of Agile and lean software development methodologies say they are becoming more popular than traditional sequential methods in corporate app-dev groups. But implementation of a pure Agile method is still a rarity in the enterprise as hybrid approaches are starting to take hold.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/13/2009
Microsoft's open source leader looks back on his tenure in Redmond.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2009
IN-DEPTH: Microsoft's new client OS is flying high, but does it really make sense to migrate your apps to Windows 7?
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2009
Palm is the latest to cut support for Windows Mobile, as Google releases new Android SDK.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/18/2009
Microsoft's new CodePlex Foundation aims to encourage commercial software companies to collaborate and contribute to open source communities.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/10/2009
The European Commission's decision to investigate Oracle's plan to acquire Sun Microsystems is focused largely on the future of the open source MySQL database.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/08/2009
How to avoid the end-to-end integration test problem with the Repository pattern.
- By Benjamin Day
- 09/01/2009
Inaugural event in Redmond hopes to engage developers of mobile applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/18/2009
A new but unofficial performance benchmark test by a senior Microsoft developer is spurring debate in the ASP.NET and PHP communities, even as it reveals some surprising findings.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/13/2009
Language design leader Erik Meijer describes new framework as a "breakthrough"in asynchronous programming.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/10/2009
VSM readers honor the best commercial development tools.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2009
Microsoft's VP of the .NET Developer Platform group opens up on a wide range of topics, from debugging Silverlight apps to Silverlight's security model.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/13/2009
Microsoft Group Product Manager Matt Carter talks about what developers can expect from the upcoming version of Visual Studio.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/01/2009
Microsoft Senior Product Manager Doug Seven talks about the next version of VSTS.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/01/2009
Learn how to store and retrieve binary large objects in the cloud with Azure's RESTful Storage API.
- By Roger Jennings
- 07/01/2009
The inventor of the first PC spreadsheet talks about his new book and challenges facing developers.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/23/2009
As applications take flight beyond the desktop, the .NET Framework is trying to keep pace. The programming environment, which debuted in 2002 and today ships with Windows, SQL Server and Visual Studio, remains the consistent foundation for Microsoft's proliferating toolsets.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/02/2009
Despite tough times, developers, ISVs and Microsoft are keeping plenty busy.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2009