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Developers Growing Challenge

Enterprise application developers are squarely in the cross hairs of the next generation of IT system attacks. As generic infrastructure security and user awareness...

Federation Cooperation Risks Complication

It was bad enough for retailer TigerDirect to find itself displaced in search engine rankings by Apples Mac OS X 10.4, with its own...

OpenOffice, Free-Software Supporters Make Peace over Java

A conflict between free-software supporters and OpenOffice.org over the use of Suns proprietary implementation of Java in the forthcoming OpenOffice.org 2.0 is on its...

Sun to Buy Tarantella

Sun Microsystems Inc. announced Tuesday that it is purchasing thin-client software company Tarantella Inc.It will be a cash purchase of $0.90 per share, or...

IBM Scores SOA Deals with Lawson, Firemans Fund

IBM demonstrated that it is winning major converts to its service-oriented architecture for software integration by announcing deals Tuesday with the Firemans Fund and...

IBM Buys Open-Source Provider Gluecode

IBM Tuesday announced that it has acquired open-source software provider Gluecode Software Inc. in a deal that strengthens IBMs middleware portfolio. IBMs acquisition of El...

Sun Charts Its Future as Java Turns 10

Sun Microsystems Java has just turned 10 years old. And it seems Sun is already planning for how to handle the difficulties of adolescence. While...

New Members to Enrich ObjectWeb

ObjectWeb, the French open-source software consortium, showed Monday why it is truly an international entity, announcing new members and agreements from members in countries...

Apache Open-Source Java Project Creates a Stir

Developers are approaching the Apache Software Foundations plan to deliver an open-source version of the Java 2 Standard Edition runtime platform with both interest...

Google Outage Dims OS X Tiger Debut

You couldnt choreograph a more ironic pas de deux than the debut of Apples OS X 10.4, with its Web-intensive Dashboard of data-tracking "widgets,"...