Levanta is offering a virtual machine version of its Linux life-cycle management product that's similar to the company's flagship physical appliance. The product, called Intrepid VM Linux Management Appliance, is available as a free software download.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2007
Java programmers who like the open source Spring Framework can develop applications for Web services using the newly released Spring Web Services 1.0 stack.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 22, 2007
Microsoft's official stance on the recent Skype outage that left millions of users without phone access for two days last week? "Hey, it's not our fault."
- By Keith Ward
- August 21, 2007
A benchmarking report that tracks how well service-oriented architecture (SOA) fits with return on investment (ROI) found an underwhelming correlation so far, based on a survey response. Of 106 enterprises surveyed, just 37 percent indicated a positive ROI from SOA.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2007
CodeGear, the development-tools arm of Borland Software Corp., is set to release a group of specialized plug-ins for the Eclipse open source development platform next month. Collectively called JGear, the plug-ins are designed to address pain points faced by Java developers using Eclipse-based tools.
- By John K. Waters
- August 20, 2007
The Utah federal court judge's ruling on August 10 -- that SuSE Linux distributor Novell does, in fact, own the copyrights to the UNIX operating system -- signals a major legal blow for The SCO Group. It ends a nearly-five-year-old legal campaign that sowed fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) among Linux users and developers.
- By John K. Waters
- August 20, 2007
The folks in Microsoft's Developer Division probably didn't mind the damp and drizzle of summer in Seattle as much this year, as they worked feverishly to polish the next iteration of the mothership. So far, it looks like the long hours paid off. Beta 2 of Microsoft's Visual Studio (VS) 2008 IDE and .NET 3.5 landed, fully loaded, the last week in July.
- By Kathleen Richards
- August 08, 2007
Anticipated improvements to the way polices are set up and managed in one or more instances did not make it into the second CTP of SQL Server 2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 03, 2007
Deconstructing the most common statistics and figures about the Microsoft Partner Program.
- By Scott Bekker
- August 01, 2007
Microsoft is changing, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday, with new frontiers opening in the areas of advertising, hardware and electronics.
- By Keith Ward
- July 26, 2007
Look for improvements in the way policies are set up in SQL Server 2008 when Microsoft releases the next community test preview (CTP) of the database server by month's end.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 24, 2007
While Oracle is set to ship its next-generation database server this month for Linux, the Windows version is not far behind and will offer significant improvements for .NET developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 20, 2007
Tools vendor Infragistics today released NetAdvantage for .NET 2007 Volume 2, its latest set of presentation components for Windows Forms and ASP.NET.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- July 16, 2007
In just a couple of weeks, developers will be able to get their hands on the release candidate of Silverlight 1.0, Microsoft's new cross-platform browser media plug-in.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- July 16, 2007
The next version of Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft's home and small-business security product, has been released for a live public beta.
- By Keith Ward
- July 12, 2007
Oracle on Wednesday took the wraps off the long-anticipated new version of its flagship database, a release that provides a substantial increase in performance, storage management and availability, according to the company.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 11, 2007
Meeting past promises, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will ship in September.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- July 11, 2007
Feb. 27, 2008 promises to be one of the most important dates in Microsoft's 33-year history, as it will release a host of major new products, including Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008.
- By Keith Ward
- July 10, 2007
On Feb. 27, 2008 Microsoft plans to release a host of major new products, including Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008.
- By Keith Ward
- July 09, 2007
Microsoft has released a new community technology preview of the ADO.NET Entity Framework, which allows coders to program against data defined in a conceptual fashion instead of directly interacting with information stored in traditional table-and-column fashion.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- July 03, 2007