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  • .Net is bigger issue than Vista for developers

    I love analysts. Whether it's predicting tomorrow's next big thing or sounding the death knell for yesterday's industry pacesetter, analysts never run out of new ways to get it wrong.

  • Gates bids developers adieu

    It's fitting that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates delivered his final publicly scheduled speech as a full-time Microsoft employee to a roomful of software developers.

  • Cisco opens routers to software developers

    Cisco is opening up two pieces of its branch office gear to application developers in an effort to reduce the amount of equipment businesses have to place and manage in small business locations.

  • Developers the focus of Microsoft launch

    When Microsoft embarks on its $175 million launch campaign of Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in Asia-Pacific this week, developers will be celebrated as heroes.

  • Sun seeks developers help to make Solaris ubiquitous

    Sun Microsystems has great ambitions for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java. To come close to reaching that goal, Sun needs to reach out more to developers and endeavour to overcome some long-held prejudices against the OS.

  • Never get an HTML hacker to do a developer's job

    There are few things more frustrating than filling out the last page of a four-page form on what purports to be a web application, pressing Submit and getting “Server failure — try again later”, a SQL error sloppily spewed out to my browser, or “You are not connected to the internet”.

  • Survey finds Windows losing ground with developers

    Microsoft’s Windows platform is losing traction as a target for application developers in North America but still is the dominant platform, according to Evans Data survey results released last week.

  • One plus one is greater than two, Cantabrians told

    Collaboration is emerging as a major industry theme, promising benefits in product development, idea generation, and the creation of new revenue streams, according to the “1+1>2” conference, held last month by Connect Canterbury, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, and the Canterbury Software Cluster (Canterbury Software).

  • Clash of developers and users: IT shops intervene

    As users persist with their gripes that applications built by corporate developers don’t meet their needs, IT managers are increasingly turning to tools and processes that can ease requirements definition and management efforts.

  • Sun woos developers to the grid at a dollar an hour

    Sun Microsystems has rolled out several incentives to draw developers into creating applications for the Sun Grid, the company announced at the recent JavaOne Developer Conference, held in San Francisco.

  • Developers weigh in on open-source Java plan

    The name of the conference says it all: JavaOne. For developers, the idea that there is one Java is a guarantee of consistency. But when Sun announced that it would open-source Java, developers offered a range of reactions, from applause at the initial announcement to later concerns over whether Sun can keep Java from taking different paths.

  • Virtualisation will save problem-solving time

    There are only a few markets ideally suited to virtualisation. One of them is software development. As the scene is usually painted, the developer sits at his or her desk, compiles new software, and launches it in a virtual machine so that when it crashes, it doesn't take the whole box down.

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