According to a new survey from business intelligence (BI) specialist Actuate Corp., open source software (OSS) doesn't simply have a token presence in the enterprise; it has truly arrived.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/09/2008
December's Patch Tuesday will be a historic security update release. But it won't be because of the size and scope of the eight patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/09/2008
The Khronos Group, an industry consortium specializing in dynamic media, has ratified and released the OpenCL 1.0 specification.
The silicon industry's plans to use multiple processor cores on the same chip to improve computer processing performance may have hit a bump on supercomputing highway.
- By Jim Barthold
- 12/09/2008
Enterprise architecture must be a key part of the strategy used to protect computers and networks from cyberattacks, said Ron Ross, a National Institute of Standards and Technology senior computer scientist.
Microsoft released the public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 along with modules aimed at simplifying RFID deployments.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/08/2008
Microsoft on Friday released free open source code that can be used by Web developers to build online blogs.
If you use open source software (OSS), Gartner recommends you have an official OSS policy. But a surprising number of open source adopters are operating without one.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/08/2008
As IT managers develop strategies and deploy technologies to reduce power consumption in their facilities, they recognize virtualization does not only reduce server sprawl, it can also save energy.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/08/2008
The last "Patch Tuesday" of 2008 will be a busy one, with Microsoft planning to release eight fixes next week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/04/2008
Sun Microsystems today began shipping version 1.0 of its JavaFX platform, the runtime and tools combo for content authors and Web developers building rich Internet applications (RIAs).
- By John K. Waters
- 12/04/2008
Microsoft executive Bill Veghte answered a few questions about Microsoft's business strategies for the Windows product line at the Credit Suisse Technology Conference.
This year, the IT industry reached an inflection point, where more new malicious programs were created than useful ones.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/03/2008
A Service Pack 2 beta Vista and Windows Server 2008 is available for subscribers to MSDN and Microsoft TechNet.
ByteShield’s Software Usage Management solution protects game and PC-application developers from would-be hackers.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2008
Redmond offers major discounts for Visual Studio 2008.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/01/2008
Developers face a long trek to Microsoft's ambitious "Oslo" modeling vision.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/01/2008
BizSpark program offers start-up software makers access to Microsoft's tools, products, licenses and tech support.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2008
Microsoft works to promote the Text Template Transformation Toolkit, a code generator built into Visual Studio 2008.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2008
Microsoft's Managed Services Engine, designed to facilitate enterprise SOA through service virtualization, gains SOA governance support.
- By John K. Waters, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/01/2008