While these experts differ on issues like the importance of SOA ROI, how to calculate SOA ROI (if at all), and why we don't have more/better of it, they all seem to agree on one thing: 'Enterprise-wide support for SOA hinges on the ability to demonstrate value to the business at large

UBS thinks that Linux fever may have mitigated. After surveying a bunch of CIOs it found that the half (47%) who aren't using Linux already pretty much intend to stay Linux-free - at least this year - a deviation from the historical trend. Usually only 60% say they aren't planning to d

The so-called California Group, the hardcore collection of state attorneys general who fought Microsoft's 2002 antitrust settlement with the US government down to the wire, has, as expected, asked the court to extend its oversight of the company until 2012, five years past the November

In the first, possibly serious, quasi-defection to the online software-as-a-service Google Apps Premier Edition, Capgemini SA, the $10 billion French consultant, said Monday that it will recommend the stuff to its clients which include major outfits like Eli Lilly and PricewaterhouseCo

I've been a big proponent of smartphone technology for a long time, and have been chasing the 'perfect smartphone' for a while. Specifically, I've been hooked on using Windows Smartphone devices, because of the seamless integration with Outlook and the resulting automatic synchronizati

Infragistics has released a free reference application for Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Named Tangerine, the application employs best practices to help developers, enterprises, and e-commerce vendors experience and leverage the capabilities of the WPF platform such

Microsoft has a new set of technologies called Silverlight that are meant to bring rich multimedia to browsers and portable devices. They have released two versions: a full release of version 1.0 and a beta version of 1.1. Version 1.0 is not very interesting, but the 1.1 beta is totall

It was an idea that the company, which has maybe $14.8 million in the bank and debts of $7.5 million, had been kicking around for at least a week after it was advanced by its fancy New York lawyers Boies Schiller as a way to escape the disaster they were sure would befall them if they

The goal of the Microsoft incubation project codenamed Astoria is to enable server applications to easily expose data as a service that can be consumed by AJAX clients across the internet. Standard HTTP verbs such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE are used to perform operations against the

SYS-CON Events announced today that 'AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West' main sponsorship opportunities are now sold-out! Limited number of expo and event sponsorship opportunities that are still available are expected to be completely sold before the end of the month. The new spons

I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://aja xbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the S

While I'm not at the point where I can divulge any of the official Table of Contents yet, I thought I would put up a quick post letting people know that I'm still alive. You may have noticed that my post count is a little low lately. I have a pile of code samples that I want to write (

The inaugural iTVCon - Internet Video Conference & Expo (November 12-13, 2007) is building out its program and the Conference Advisory Board is busy sorting through the hundreds of proposals for technical and strategic sessions that have been coming in. Final deadline for proposals is

The so-called California Group, the hardcore collection of states attorneys general who fought Microsoft's antitrust settlement down to the wire, have filed a brief with the court overseeing the case questioning the effectiveness of the consent decree. They have no remedial suggestions

Microsoft has now managed to articulate the thought that the first Vista Service Pack will arrive sometime in the first quarter of 2008, which, if memory serves, was when the smart money thought it would be out anyway. Expectations of course are that it will give Vista a hot foot and

Microsoft was ever so prescient in calling the next Windows Server Longhorn because it's taking a formidable length of time to get here. On Wednesday, Microsoft confessed that it has been delayed still again. The company had previously promised to RTM the widgetry by the end of the cal

If you cast your mind back to July 5, you'll remember that was the day that Microsoft told the Free Software Foundation (FSF) that it could take its GPLv3, rewritten in an attempt to gut Microsoft's patent claims on open source, and put it where the sun doesn't shine. Microsoft issued

The August 17 ruling has provoked DLA Piper partner and pro bono OSI general counsel Mark Radcliffe - OSI, or Open Source Initiative, being the arbiter of what exactly constitutes an open source license - to blog that 'this case was wrongly decided and if allowed to stand may deprive o

First off, it might be worth it to note that there is a Silverlight 'Quick Start' for performing this task. The problem is that the Quick Start sucks. It actually tells you to go off and follow the directions for creating a basic ASP.NET Web Service - which is wrong. In order to do thi

A core component of Microsoft's overall strategy for the Web, Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs). In addition to making the beta of Silverlight available for

There'll be no running off to Denver to save the day for SCO. It had asked the Utah district court hearing its case against Novell to let it appeal the court's summary judgment finding that Novell owns the Unix copyrights to the Court of Appeals in Colorado before the trial starts on M

Much has been made recently of what will or will not be included in SP1 and when it will be released (some accurate, some otherwise). Now Microsoft says a Beta release of Windows Vista SP1 is slated for availability in 'the next few weeks.' A small group of testers has been putting a p

The Linux Foundation (LF), very sensibly, is going to start keeping track of where exactly Linux development's at. It's going to be using the so-called Linux Weather Forecast assembled by LWN.net editor and kernel community member Jonathan Corbet to follow the state of projects likely

As part of an apparent joint aim to reassure consumers that, if they use Microsoft's software, it will continue to work with Cisco's networking products, and vice versa, the CEOs of both companies spoke at a press event in New York this week about how, while competing as vigorously as

Linspire president and CEO Kevin Carmony, the guy who cut one of those patent protection deals with Microsoft, has - poof! - disappeared replaced by the company's sales chief Larry Kettler. Linspire has said nothing about the transition to its third CEO since it started. It merely cann

SYS-CON Events announced today that Microsoft joined AJAXWorld Conference & Expo as 'Gold Sponsor.' Microsoft technologies enable designers and developers to create next generation web experiences. With frameworks like ASP.NET AJAX, developers can quickly create pages with sophisticate

General counsel Dian Peters is gone - reportedly to Mozilla - and her job has been essentially outsourced to former Black Duck counsel Karen Copenhaver, an ex-IBMer and licensing expert now a partner with Choate, Hall & Stewart, and Andy Updegrove, the consortium expert who had his own

Novell has whistled up a legal reinforcement, adding another Morrison & Foerster partner, Eric Acker, a practiced IP litigator and former federal prosecutor, to its defense team. One of Novell's team of 13 lawyers has been sidelined by illness so maybe he's a substitute or maybe he's t

HP is picking up thin client house Neoware for its Linux charms and now Wyse, Neoware's major competitor, says it's working with Novell to bring a new generation of Linux thin clients to market and get customers off traditional desktops. Apparently Wyse already has SUSE Linux Thin Clie

A San Diego judge Monday struck down the precedent-setting $1.538 billion award that Microsoft had been ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent for supposedly infringing on two of its MP3 patents. Unless Alcatel appeals the decision to the Federal Circuit and gets it reversed, the French will ge

Microsoft says it's got an early pre-beta Vista SP1, content unknown, out with trusted testers and released those two updates that leaked last week to its download center ahead of its Windows Update site. One, KB938979, tickles performance while the other, KB938194, addresses compatibi

Novell owns the Unix and UnixWare copyrights, according to a 102-page summary judgment issued late yesterday by the federal judge hearing the SCO v Novell case for slander of title. And since Novell owns the copyrights, Judge Dale Kimball decided that Novell had the right - as it has d

AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East sponsors included: Laszlo Systems (Diamond Sponsor), JackBe (Platinum Sponsor), Adobe (Platinum Sponsor), Cynergy (Platinum Sponsor), Backbase (Gold Sponsor) Google (Gold Sponsor), Nexaweb (Gold Sponsor), ICEsoft (Gold Sponsor), Oracle (Gold Sponso

This article is based on my presentation at TechWave 2007 and is intended for the beginner or moderately experienced PowerBuilder developer. I hope to share some of the useful information I've picked up as an application developer using PowerBuilder and EAServer.

Version 3.0 features in-depth code analysis for C# and a host of new productivity-enhancing features such as a superior unit testing solution, efficient handling of to-do lists, plus new navigation and search commands. Another major boost is the addition of Visual Basic .NET support, b

JetBrains, creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing applications, started shipping JetBrains dotTrace 3.0. The third major release of the company's intelligent profiling tool for Microsoft .NET applications features a quadruple increase in the number of performance profiling too

The Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) is going to vote on whether to standardized Microsoft's HD Photo file format, shipping with Vista and renamed for the occasion JPEG XR, XR for Extended Range. It would replace the current format standard, which is growing long in the tooth, an

Microsoft is denying Forrester Research and Gartner findings of discontent and defection among some of its Software Assurance customers who pay a fee equal to 29% of their total license for automatic upgrades. According to a web site Q&A with Joe Matz, corporate VP, worldwide licensin

Eolas and Microsoft are off talking settlement. The retrial of the patent infringement case that resulted in a $521 million award to Eolas and the University of California was supposed to have started Monday, but it's been put off a month so the two sides can negotiate. An appeals cour

Microsoft seems to be chewing on a 'Vista Performance and Reliability Pack' and 'Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack' that leaked out from outside Windows Server 2008 beta testers then - poof - disappeared that may or may be part of - or even the whole of - the date-undetermined a