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Embarcadero Aims To Attract Eclipse SQL Developers
News Embarcadero hopes to attract developers not traditionally used to writing SQL code to its latest tool, which it said features a rich SQL integrated development environment with code-completion, real-time error-checking, code-formatting and object...
[March 18, 2008, 16:46]
Sun Submits Software Licence To Open Source Initiative
News Sun hopes its open-source move will attract developers to Solaris and reinvigorate the operating system. But the licence may inhibit cross-pollination between Solaris and Linux -- a sacrifice Sun appears willing to make in its effort to attract...
[December 3, 2004, 7:45]
Microsoft Hailstorm Rains On AOL
News In transitioning to a Web-based services strategy, Microsoft must continue to attract developers for the same reasons. One trouble spot may be battling competitors, including IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, that are also hoping to...
[March 20, 2001, 7:26]
Mac Cruise To Merge Glaciers With G4s
News Although past cruises have drawn anywhere from 50 to 175 passengers, Bauman said, the Mac cruise might be able to attract as many as 400 attendees. Bauman said his events are popular with the cruise lines because they help attract a younger crowd...
[August 28, 2001, 8:53]
Microsoft Details Windows Live 'platform'
Talkback Just to attract developers of all levels and skills between which the average user can't choose so more often then not crapware ends up on their system and ruins the entire experience (at least, Microsoft told us plenty times before that the main...
[June 14, 2006, 23:04]
Google Releases Android SDK
Blog Comment In response to the statement that "Google's holding a big-money competition to attract developers to make apps for Android", I have to ask the questions. Who.why would someone put Google into such a disadvantageous position for negotiating future...
[November 12, 2007, 23:44]
Novell Plugs Bandit For ID Management
News By going public, Novell hopes to attract more developers to build on its initial code for network sign-on, policy-based administration and other directory-related services. Novell on Monday plans to officially launch Bandit, an open source identity...
[June 12, 2006, 9:00]
Java.net: A Community For Everyone
White Papers These projects attract developers who are experienced in working on the Java platform. From this, it's easy to get the impression that java.net is not for developers new to the Java platform, but it is.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Can't See The Active Directory Forest For The Trees?
White Papers With a winning combination of a wide customer base with innumerable NT servers - a solid first offering of a true directory service - an open architecture that is sure to attract software developers and a marketing persuasion second on one...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
New Developer-Oriented Hosted Service Grows By 200 Web Sites Per Month
White Papers Because its ASP.NET offering takes advantage of the reliability, availability, and security enhancements of Windows Server 2003, Hostbasket can attract developers with a shared hosting service offering the kind of service level agreements...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Big Names Drum Up Support For Asia Linux Groups
News Participation by big open-source vendors is helping attract new interest in Linux user groups in Asia. He said the monthly meetings have "continued to attract increasing numbers, creating a better local community compared to communicating via...
[April 30, 2008, 10:00]
Microsoft Charts New Course Round Java
News Microsoft plans to make available this week a test version of a new tool intended to attract Java developers to the company's .Net Web services plan. Net includes tools for developers, server software aimed at large companies, and a fee-based Web...
[October 10, 2001, 9:57]
Java Allies Ape Microsoft's Methods
News The leading Java adherents -- Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, IBM and Oracle -- have ratcheted up efforts to attract software developers through a tried-and-true Microsoft strategy: offering easy-to-use tools to drive adoption of more expensive...
[September 22, 2003, 12:05]
Microsoft Embraces Open-source Scripting Language
News Microsoft's support for Python could help the software giant attract Unix developers to the Windows platform, as it is a commonly used scripting language on the Unix platform, according to Salim Fadhley, who develops Python programs for Unix.
[January 4, 2006, 13:05]
OpenOffice Denies Rift With Sun
News On Wednesday, vnunet.com published an interview with Suarez-Potts where he said that if Sun donated the code from OpenOffice.org to an independent foundation, this would help attract additional developers.
[February 10, 2006, 15:45]
Microsoft Rebuilds .Net Tools
News Microsoft is in an ongoing competition with Java-oriented companies to attract developers to their respective tools, particularly as the adoption of Web services grows. With the Whidbey update to Visual Studio.Net, developers will be able to use a...
[February 11, 2003, 15:20]
Adobe To Launch Creative Suite 3
News Adobe is hoping to use this feature to attract developers away from its rival Quark. CS3 will offer the capability for developers to design dynamic frames that automatically format images. Adobe Systems plans to launch Creative Suite 3 later this...
[March 6, 2007, 9:03]
Google 'guarantees' Android Compatibility
News To attract developers to Android, Google has launched a $10m (£5m) competition to find applications that can be run on the various handsets that will use the platform. We've built some interesting applications for Android, but the best applications...
[November 13, 2007, 7:02]
CA Dangles Open-source Carrot
News Computer Associates' contest underscores how open-source projects increasingly need to take novel approaches to attract developers, which are vital to driving adoption of a product. CA will offer five prizes -- topping out around $300,000 for the...
[August 4, 2004, 10:50]
Gnome And KDE: Open Source Gets Bloody
News Neither Motif nor CDE managed to attract cohesive backing from Unix developers, which could have led to a single Unix development environment around which developers could have coalesced, the way they did around Windows.
[August 22, 2000, 9:10]
