Since Ed Zander led Sun into the valley of the shadow of death back, what? over five years ago now, it has never recovered. And there's a good chance the same thing may happen to Motorola. With a year left to run on his contract, Zander quit yesterday and clearly not a moment too soon

VS 2008 can also be used to build AJAX-based web apps. It can be used to target multiple versions of software like existing .NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 programs and continue to deploy them on .NET 2.0 machines. .NET Framework 3.5 supports Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Wor

See, IBM refuses to allow z/OS to run on PSI's Open Mainframes and so PSI is suing IBM for antitrust, hitting it with both barrels of the Sherman and Clinton Antitrust Acts in a plethora of monopoly charges that include tying the z/OS software to mainframe hardware, a serious antitrust

Within minutes of my blog entry, I received the strangest email notification, alerting me to another blog written by Alan Zeichick, 'co-founder and editorial director of BZ Media, which publishes SD Times and Software Test & Performance, and which also produces the Software Security Su

Lots of people have been asking about how to get started with Silverlight, and what they need to do to get up and running with Silverlight quickly. Inspired by blog posts such as Jesse Liberty's, I'm going to take this from first principles, with no prior knowledge assumed. So let's ge

There's a couple of things that I like about his sample, and a couple of things that worry me. First, I like the idea that there's an Ajax controller. I hope in the final bits it's simply called Controller and they don't make you distinguish between an Ajax controller and a regular con

Whoops! This one almost got by us. Microsoft last week said it signed a patent cross-license with Kyocera Mita that's supposed to protect the Japanese firm's multifunction products (MFPs), printers, copiers and 'certain Linux-based embedded devices.' No talk of terms. Kyocera Mita said

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has just memorialized the Affero GPLv3, a version of the GPL that was created to cover software that runs over a network such as the Internet, which these days would mean, oh, SaaS stuff and Google Apps, Web Services, game servers, web and e-mail serv

I was reminiscing about the good 'ol days tinkering with computers: Commodore 64s, GWBASIC, Turbo Pascal 5.0, DOOM and the Autoexect.bat config.sys hacking required to get it running on underprivileged 486s, Amiga 500s, broken Linux 1.0 kernel compiles, EGA video cards and more Sierra

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed two more lawsuits in defense of the GPL, charging router maker Xterasys Corporation and High-Gain Antennas LLC with denying downstream recipients of GPL-protected code with access to the source code. One can only hope that one of these d

This book contains 14 chapters and an appendix. Its subtitle is 'the ultimate ASP.NET beginner's guide.' As its two titles imply, this book covers the basics on a lot of ASP.NET topics. The chapter titles convey this: ASP.Net basics, VB and C# programming basics, constructing ASP.NET W

Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com

Microsoft this week announced that Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 have released to manufacturing (RTM) and are now available for MSDN subscribers to download, and will be available soon to Microsoft's customers through its various other channels. Visual Studio 2008 has n

Hi, this is Scott Hanselman and this is another episode of Hanselminutes and we are fortunate enough to be sitting down today with Robert Pickering, the author of the Foundations of F# book, and I'm in Portland. Robert, you are where right now? Robert Pickering replies: I'm in Saint-Ge

Mercado Eletrônico is the leading B2B company in Latin America. Founded in 1994, it provides services for supply chain management, such as e-procurement, catalog, sourcing and collaboration, based on an advanced technology platform supporting more than 30,000 transactions a day and a c

Just as I'm finishing this column, Miguel comes on chat (#mono on irc.gnome.) and mentions that the media embargo on project 'Barking Duck' will be lifted at midnight. 'Project Barking Duck' is an inside joke at Mono and not actually a project. But the media embargo was real. At midnig

Here are my thoughts on this. I was expecting Alfred - who is known to be an arrogant and incompetent CEO - to run away from Larry as fast as he could. But this movie usually ends as follows. First, history repeats itself. By that I mean that Alfred should remember Larry's PeopleSoft h

Oracle owns PeopleSoft and JD Edwards; they own SleepyCat; they own BEA; and of course they have their own enterprise database. This means they have the stack from top to bottom, with the exception of an operating system. They can take the CRM and banking and insurance and end-user app

In Visual Studio 2003 and earlier, the build process for Visual Basic and C# projects was hard-coded, and built into Visual Studio itself. The only build scripting tool that Microsoft offered was nmake, and a companion tool called build.exe that provided some support for concurrent bui

C# 3.0 represents a radical new approach to .NET development. The new language features were added primarily to support Language Integrated Query (LINQ), allowing you to query data using the same constructs regardless of where the data is currently stored. However, you'll find that the

After Google's Android announcement, at least four big guys should be irritated: Sun Microsystems, Apple, Adobe and Microsoft.Google approaches telephony from the open source side - Linux-based platform, uses Java but does not care about sticking to Java ME - they are planning to use f

It was the usual story: a short deadline and a tight budget. The client's internal staff said 'No way' to build the Web-based application in fewer than six months, with any fewer than three full-time resources. The project needed to be completed in two months. It included custom authen

I asked what she did for a living. She said she was a software engineer working with SOA. I did not think about my plane ride much until I arrived in San Francisco to attend the SOA World Conference & Expo this past Monday and Tuesday. The first day of the conference as I walked into t

When .NET first came on the scene, there was fighting over whether it was a platform or not. As I have said here in the past, those debates are over as .NET has proven itself a very useful and valuable platform, expanding into areas that people assumed it wouldn't and even couldn't in

The three-year-old Dojo Foundation has put out version 1.0 of Dojo, an open source JavaScript toolkit for AJAX development meant for building rich Web 2.0 applications without proprietary plug-ins or single-vendor solutions. The widgetry makes use of Google Gears, Google's solution for

Egenera, which claims it's the archetype Virtualization 2.0 company to VMware's Virtualization 1.0 - and is going put its PAN Manager software on other people's hardware to prove it - has convinced Fujitsu Siemens, which OEMs Egenera's BladeFrame servers, to put PAN on its own industry

Watching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envyWatching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envy - so green in fact that it's gonna try taking VMware on b

Microsoft's immediate answer to rival web-based applications, its free Windows Live online programs, the stuff it calls 'software plus services,' emerged from their beta gauntlet Tuesday. The suite includes e-mail, instant messaging, photo sharing, blogging, parental controls for surfi

The infamous Microsoft-Novell interoperability/patent protection deal that FOSSers love to hate just passed its first birthday and, bragging that it's exceeded their original business targets, the pair has extended the arrangement. They're going to create a cross-platform accessibility

In what amounts to a monumental reversal of policy, Microsoft said Monday in a press release - so it's in writing - and publicly at TechEd in Barcelona that it's changing its licensing terms and will no longer restrict developers 'to building solutions on top of Visual Studio for Windo

The demonstrations will illustrate practical interoperability scenarios between some of the Web Services platforms implemented by vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, BEA, and WS02. The session will cover interoperability best practices for different SOA archit

Many articles have already been written about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Service Component Architecture (SCA), for example, see references [1] and [2]. In this article we'll focus on a freely available, open source implementation of the Service Component Architecture that

At a court hearing Tuesday Novell surprised a lot of people and withdrew its claim that SCO damaged it to the tune of $100 million by reneging on a deal supposedly assigning its Unix IP to UnitedLinux, the failed Linux consortium, in 2002. Novell - or rather its allegedly independent N

To take advantage of the OpenSocial implementation in Orkut sandbox, you have to create a Google Gadget with the OpenSocial feature, post the gadget on the Internet, and then add the URL of the gadget as an application. As I looked into the Google gadget API to build this, I found some

After much anticipation, today at TechEd Developers in Barcelona, Spain, S. 'Soma' Somasegar, Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Developer Division, announced Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 will be released by the end of November 2007. Somasegar also unveiled a numb

I'm down here in Sebastopol, California at Foo Camp and I've been lucky enough to sit down with Tim Ferriss, the New York best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek. I want to understand how you're able to synthesize what is a 40- or 60- or 80-hour workweek to those four or few hours t

Most of the restrictions imposed on Microsoft by its 2002 consent decree with the US government - which were supposed to expire on November 12 - have been temporarily extended to no later than January 31, 2008 to accommodate the legal maneuvering of the states now seeking to extend the

In a big uh-oh for Microsoft, Yahoo and the other GoogleClick critics, the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission approved Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Tuesday. The regulator decided the two companies weren't close competitors, which is what Google has been

It seems that Microsoft has persuaded the Nigerian government to switch out the 17,000 copies of Mandriva Linux it ordered under a pilot project of Intel Classmate PCs for its schools and substitute Windows instead. Mandriva's still going to get paid but the CEO of the little French c

FiveRuns Corporation, a pioneer of monitoring products for Ruby on Rails, described by some as the new Java, has gotten $6.2 million in funding from Austin Ventures. The money is earmarked for acceleration product development, sales and marketing and the company's partnership efforts.