Redmond announces new virtualization components, shows up at VMworld.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2007
Release of MySQL 6.0 is expected in mid-2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2007
Jason Zander takes over Redmond’s Visual Studio team.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2007
Microsoft wants to help you build cloud data services with its Astoria code-named technology, a free download now in beta.
Sun Microsystems, in conjunction with the <a href="https://glassfish.dev.java.net/" target="_blank">GlassFish Community</a>, announced the availability of GlassFish 2.0, a major server upgrade that works with the Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows operating systems.
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
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).
Microsoft has decided to keep its forerunner, Windows XP, in sales and OEM channels for another five months.
Microsoft has released a key "extra" that had been promised for months.
Office 2008 for Mac will be available in the U.S. beginning next Jan. 15.
Windows Home Server (WHS), Microsoft's first-ever server for home use, gets its first update today.
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.
The Distributed Management Task Force, an industry organization advocating the development of interoperable server management, has released Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware 2.0.
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
Component vendor Infragistics has released a reference application and guidance for Windows Presentation Foundation, the UI development subsystem in .NET Framework 3.0.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/19/2007
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.
CodeGear announced yesterday the general availability of its first development tool for Ruby-on-Rails (RoR). The company's new 3rdRail integrated development environment (IDE) comes with several features specifically designed to make it easier and faster for both new and experienced Rails developers to build database-driven Web applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/18/2007
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
Parlano brings group chat platform to Redmond's UC stack.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/15/2007
Major refresh coming for C++ programming language.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/15/2007