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License to Thrive: Sun Opens Up Java Platforms

Sun Microsystems Inc. promised in May to give up its long-time stewardship of all things Java. The company is well on its way, but not everyone is applauding its open source licensing strategy.

ALM Game Heats Up

Some vendors herald a best-of-breed approach to ALM tooling, while others are beginning to offer integrated toolsets.

Application Testing Goes Virtual

How can development shops stay ahead of the QA curve when supporting multiple versions of software for growing audiences running mixed environments?

Database Developers Join Visual Studio Crowd

DataDude a new Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) product -- Team Edition for Database Professionals

Application Compatibility Factory Eases Vista Transition

The initiative is meant to shorten the path to Vista deployment for enterprise customers.

Office 2007 Toolset Targets Visual Studio Professional Developers

VSTO 2005 SE, allows developers to create application-level add-in solutions for Office 2007 applications.

ComponentOne Adds Atlas Support to Studio Enterprise

Windows, Web and mobile application developers can now get "first-ever" server-side Atlas control.

Study Looks into Open Source

The University of California, Davis gets National Science Foundation grant.

Microsoft Readies PowerShell

A command-line environment and scripting language for Windows Server 2003.

Early Delivery from Microsoft? Atlas Arrives This Year

Microsoft is expected to announce the Release Candidate of its AJAX technology.

ElectricCommander Automates Post-Coding Development Tasks

An enterprise-class solution that automates the build, package, test and deploy stages of software development.

Dynamic Language Limbo

Platform leaders like Microsoft and Sun are placing bets on hot dynamic languages.

Access to SQL Server Migration Made Easy

2SQL from Australia-based ConvertU2 aims to ease the migration from Microsoft Access to SQL Server.

Borland Readies Lifecycle Quality Management Bundle

New LQM bundle aims to provide more integration with Windows development platform.

Firefox 2 Aims to Steal IE Corporate Developers

Mozilla is challenging IE with all sorts of new goodies and developers are flocking to it faster than you can say "Firefox."

Visual Studio Service Pack 1 Not Fully Compatible with Vista

Workarounds being provided. Complete support for Vista in VS 2005 will come after SP1 ships.

Salesforce.com Preps Programming Language and Platform

The new Apex API is designed to support development as a service.

3 Rational Desktop Tools Begin Beta Test

IBM Rational Software Architect, Functional Tester and Performance Tester begin testing.

Microsoft to Ship SQL Server Everywhere

A new embeddable, small-memory footprint version of the database engine that adds the ability to run on a PC or laptop.

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