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Adobe Open Sources BlazeDS
News Adobe's announcement follows on from open-source plans for several of its other developer products. This in turn is part of Adobe LiveCycle ES, a suite of Java 2 Enterprise Edition-based server software products.
[December 17, 2007, 9:34]
Microsoft Drops Older Products
News In a posting to Microsoft's developer Web site, the company lists several older products that are being phased out and that will no longer be available to customers as of 15 December. The roster of products to be dropped includes SQL Server 7...
[December 8, 2003, 16:00]
Cisco Boosts Security Line-up By Acquisition
News The networking giant announced it will pay $74m in cash for San Francisco start-up Perfigo, a developer of network access control products. Perfigo's CleanMachines products focus on policy analysis, compliance and access enforcement for PCs.
[October 21, 2004, 17:25]
Microsoft's Turning Tide May Strand Customers
News Microsoft has said that product will pave the way for a new server OS and a new version of Office, as well as various server software products and developer tools. Everything that SQL Server touches, which is a lot of products, will be impacted...
[March 15, 2004, 13:00]
Macromedia Makes Web Services Key With Studio MX
News The generation of products is also combined in Studio MX, a suite of developer tools that includes the newly released Flash MX. As with other Macromedia products, the new Dreamweaver will also require developers to learn a new user interface.
[April 29, 2002, 10:20]
Torvalds Wraps Up Work On Linux Core
News The 2.5 kernel is a development project, aimed at experimenting with new technologies, and will be integrated into the 2.6 kernel for use in finished products. Once it has arrived, it will probably be several more months before Linux vendors...
[July 11, 2003, 12:17]
Microsoft Makes Intelligent Acquisition
News Proclarity has business analytics that work with such Microsoft products as SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 and Microsoft Office Excel. Microsoft's Office productivity suite and server products, such as its...
[April 4, 2006, 10:50]
Microsoft's Mobility Efforts: Where Are They Going?
News The new platform includes some existing hardware, software, and services, as well as new server products designed to decrease the time to market for corporations that want to offer products based on the platform to their customers.
[April 8, 2003, 9:53]
Microsoft Simplifies Shared Source Programme
News Microsoft Permissive License: Designed primarily for developer-related products, it enables developers to view, modify and redistribute Microsoft source code. Viewing the code enables other companies to create closer integration with Microsoft...
[October 19, 2005, 17:05]
New .Net Tools Released As Push Continues
News The company said its Visual Studio.Net development tool package is available to subscribers of its Microsoft Developer Network, a Web site and fee-based subscription service for developers using Microsoft's products.
[January 17, 2002, 12:06]
Microsoft Publishes More Protocol Documentation
News Microsoft has made public over 14,000 pages of preliminary technical documentation on the protocols built into its Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 products. Microsoft describes its interoperability principles as...
[April 9, 2008, 8:45]
Betfair Wins Big With API
News The developer programme creates a free market for products for Betfair users such as specialist trading applications and interfaces. Betfair's head of product development Tom Johnson told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com: "The reason we introduced...
[April 11, 2005, 11:35]
Visual Studio And SQL Server Delayed Again
News The changes are meant to simplify the purchase process and make the cost of the company's tools suites easier to compare to competitive products, said Prashant Sridharan, lead product manager in Microsoft's developer division.
[March 21, 2005, 17:05]
Microsoft Developer Tool Pricing Pilloried
News In an interview, Prashant Sridharan, lead product manager in Microsoft's developer division, said Microsoft's lifecycle suite will be much cheaper than products from competitors such as IBM and Borland.
[March 24, 2005, 8:50]
Microsoft Strips Down Developer Tools
News Completed products are expected in the first half of next year. At the same time that Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 are made available, Microsoft will release the Express line, which will includes stripped-down versions of its Visual Basic...
[June 29, 2004, 9:40]
Survey: MS Passport Required, Not Wanted
News Use is rising because the authentication service is required to use some Windows XP features, along with Hotmail email, Microsoft's developer site and other Microsoft products. Consumer demand typically drives the adoption of new products and...
[April 18, 2002, 9:29]
The Danger In Skype's Plans
News Skype is beginning to roll out its own premium services, and it might face competition from similar products seeded by its developer program. Since the company began licensing or giving away its proprietary source code late last year, an estimated...
[April 4, 2005, 16:55]
Snags Hit Sun Services Rollout
News Like Sun archrival Microsoft has done with its Microsoft.Net software-as-a-service strategy, Sun is expected to position all of its existing developer, middleware and operating system products as the underlying plumbing necessary to build, run and...
[February 5, 2001, 9:08]
Borland And Oracle Brew Java Tool Updates
News The new version integrates with two other Borland products: testing software that allows programmers to improve their software code, and an application that manages software projects. Like many large software companies, Borland and Oracle sell low...
[May 21, 2002, 15:30]
Sony Makes Gains With Memory Stick
News Lexar, a developer of digital photography products, sells CompactFlash, Smart Media and Memory Stick formats. But about a year ago, they realized they couldn't proceed that way and get the diversity of products they needed to grow Memory Stick, so...
[June 15, 2001, 9:32]
