Microsoft described its next service-oriented architecture solution, which is "on track for availability during the first half of 2009."
Paul Cosgrave, commissioner of New York City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT), talks about the city's approach to software development in this extended Q&A.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/08/2008
New York City is stepping up its .NET development efforts, but at the same time it is moving aggressively to expand use of open source technology, according to the city's top IT official.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/08/2008
Sun Microsystems this week rolled out version 2.0 of its xVM VirtualBox.
Microsoft plans to roll out just four "critical" fixes in September's security bulletin release expected on Tuesday, according to an advance notice.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/04/2008
Google's Chrome Web browser -- complete with quirky marketing comic book -- made a splash when announced on Tuesday, but what a difference a day makes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/04/2008
Just days after Microsoft released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, Google unexpectedly made what could be its largest assault on Redmond to date -- the release of its own Web browser.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/02/2008
One report suggests that IE could account for less than half of all browsers in use by enterprises within the next year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/02/2008
Xenocode releases Postbuild 2008 for .NET, a code-obfuscation and deployment tool that protects intellectual property.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
IBM joins forces with Red Hat, Novell and Canonical to push Linux distributions onto the desktop.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
Sybase announces plans to unveil an upgrade to its PowerBuilder toolset at its TechWave User Training and Solutions Conference.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
Alfresco Software’s open source enterprise content management system presents a new challenge to SharePoint.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/01/2008
Microsoft releases new database server, adding support for policy management, encryption and new data types.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/01/2008
Unify and Casahl Technology work together to ease integration between Lotus Notes and SharePoint.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
CollabNet offers a new version of SourceForge Enterprise, an ALM system that provides a single interface for Visual Studio and Eclipse IDEs.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
Features a smooth upgrade from SQL Server 2005 and developer perks such as T-SQL and encryption.
- By Joshua Jones
- 09/01/2008
Although the overall number of vulnerabilities being discovered in software appears to be leveling off or even dropping, two recent reports on Web security say that the overwhelming majority of Web sites studied still have unpatched vulnerabilities that could expose visitors to malicious code.
- By William Jackson
- 08/28/2008
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, and the company spilled a lot of pixels explaining the beta's new features.
Last week, market watcher Gartner Inc. issued a report in which it projected that IT spending should eclipse $3.4 trillion this year. That's a year-over-year growth rate of 8 percent.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/26/2008
The writing's on the wall, it seems, for purveyors of security point solutions. Gone is the day of the best-of-breed anti-virus, firewall, e-mail security or encryption vendors. These days, it's a security suite play.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/26/2008