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Black Box Column Brings Forth Products and Protocols

When an IT vendor wants to get my attention, the most effective technique is to rub my nose in one of my own recent...

Bringing Eclipse into the Open

Dave Bernstein is a former senior vice president of product development at Rational Software Corp., who was tasked with leading the effort to transition...

HP Joins with JBoss on Server Support

Hewlett-Packard Co. and open-source middleware vendor JBoss Inc. on Friday said that HP will now provide first-line support for JBoss open-source Java application server....

Cutting and Sewing with XML

Its rarely a term of praise to compare an IT system to a quilt. In an IT context, I usually see the "q" word...

Mac Widget App Set to Make Windows Debut

As one developer prepares to move his application from Mac to Windows, others reaffirm their commitment to the platform—despite competing directly with Apple Computer...

Microsoft Lays New Groundwork

As Microsoft Corp. released the first building blocks of its Software Factories project last week, the company laid the groundwork for a new ecosystem...

Why Measure What Cant Matter?

I was talking with someone about this years presidential election, when I said that it was silly for polls to report anything other than...

Programming Legends Debate .Net, J2EE

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—In a meeting of programming heavyweights dubbed a shootout of competing platforms, participants exhibited criticism and sarcasm, but also a grudging respect...

Envisioning the Programming Language of the Future

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—What will be the dominant programming languages a decade from now?Microsoft Corp. developer division architect Herb Sutter told attendees of the OOPSLA...

Microsoft Sharpens Its Software Factory Vision

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—In a speech at the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications—or OOPSLA—conference here, Microsoft Corp.s head researcher announced a new framework and...