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Grassroots computing languages hit the big time

Once considered simple toys by serious programmers, scripting languages are becoming first-class citizens in the world of corporate software development. Read more »

IBM to pay US$1.6 billion for FileNet

IBM has agreed to acquire content-management software maker FileNet for about US$1.6 billion in cash, the companies said on Thursday in the US. Read more »

Open-source LAMP a beacon to developers

For years, the business-software development world has been split largely between Microsoft's .Net toolset and Java. Get ready for a third option. Read more »

IBM's 'Marvel' to scour Net for video, audio

IBM is devising Internet search technology that could let future generations archive important news footage, or just retrieve old scenes from "Flipper." Read more »

Open source fans offer differing views of MS move

Open source developers and users have always been a sceptical group, but their opinions can shift — for example, their loathing of Sun Microsystems diminished as Sun stopped attacking Linux and started moving towards open source software. Read more »

Microsoft places bet on Whitehorse

Microsoft this year will seek to distance itself from Java rivals with tools designed to streamline how Windows-based business software is built and used. Read more »

Internet giants race to rope in developers

Web service providers are luring software developers, to get more applications on their hosted computing platforms. Read more »

Microsoft learns to live with open source

Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering. Read more »

Interview with Bill Gates

This week Microsoft have released a host of announcements revolved around Longhorn, Whidbey and the future of Web services. Bill Gates sheds some light on the future of their platforms in this interview. Read more »

J D Edwards' Ian Hodge: Straight to the source

What sets J D Edwards apart from the likes of Siebel and PeopleSoft? We speak with Ian Hodge, managing director Australia/New Zealand, about the future of business software and services. Read more »

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Case Study: Switching places from Lotus to .NET

For almost a decade, Sydney-based software developer Just OnePlace (J1P) had been a loyal devotee of the IBM/Lotus platform. But following the strategic review that commenced two years ago the company made a strategic switch to the rival Microsoft .NET camp. Read more »

Can't J2EE and .NET just be friends?

The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer. But can they play nicely together? Read more »

Totally RAD: we road test five IDEs

Builder AU technical editor, David McAmis gets down and dirty with the most popular IDE's to see how they they stack up as Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools. Read more »

Microsoft: .Net starting to take hold

The company announces new software tools it hopes developers will use to build Web services. "We bet the company on .Net, but we can't do it alone," an executive says. Read more »

J2EE vs. .NET: Making that vital development decision

There are a few things to consider about Sun J2EE based on Microsoft's .NET Framework before making a software development decision. Learn how to make the right choice by examining the companies and the markets. Read more »

Oracle's Jarvis: Unplugged--but not unarmed

In an interview with ZDNet, Oracle marketing chief Mark Jarvis managed to critique most of the competition. Ariba, Commerce One, I2, and Siebel? All history. IBM? A copycat. Microsoft? Vulnerable. Read more »

See how the Java API for XML Registries works

Web application developers must deal with a number of distributed registries, each with its own API or protocol. The Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) aims to unify these approaches so that each may be used as needed in an automatic fashion. Read more »

Building the Linux business infrastructure

IBM has the Linux middleware tools you need today--but so do Oracle, BEA, and many other enterprise software vendors. Why the rush, and what's in it for you? Read more »

Open source and the middleware market

Gartner predicts that licence revenues for infrastructure software will start declining from 2006 due to the impact of open source on the market's business models. We look at how the market is changing. Read more »

Proprietary vs. open source? Take the best of both codes

The Microsoft vs. Linux confrontation is too often seen as a battle for the hearts and minds of this industry. From a corporate IT perspective, each side has legitimate claims and products to offer. It's not an either-or situation; it's about the price and service for goods rendered. The enterprise will be a hybrid world that continues to integrate both proprietary and open source code for a long time to come. Read more »

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