InfoWorld.com articles from October 2008

InfoWorld.com archives from October 2008

Will the downturn accelerate cloud computing? No one expects mass adoption, but analysts anticipate companies will take a much closer look at cloud computing services, thanks to the low cost of entry.
October 1, 2008... Byline: Tom Sullivan Facing uncertain economic times, enterprises may be more likely to turn to cloud computing services -- such as SaaS (software as a service), Amazon-style utility computing, and managed service providers -- for the...

Microsoft enhances .Net, Windows Server; REST and Dublin app server capabilities are highlighted in updated platform strategy.
October 1, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft on Wednesday is revealing an updated platform strategy to support composite applications in Windows Server and the .Net Framework programming model. The company's efforts, focused on SOA and Web 2.0,...

SpringSource launches Java app server; SpringSource dm Server with OSGi capabilities is suited to both grid and cloud deployments.
October 1, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill SpringSource, maker of the popular Spring Framework for Java application development, this week began offering its SpringSource dm Server, an OSGi-based application server to run enterprise Java and Spring applications....

Socialtext 3.0 unveiled; The enterprise wiki company is adding features and enhanced integration to its social networking tool.
October 1, 2008... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Ross Mayfield , founder of Socialtext, unveiled this week version 3.0 of his company's enterprise wiki, which promises to make the corporate directory a social networking tool for the workplace. Socialtext 3.0...

Will your IT job survive the financial meltdown? After the consolidation wave, financial IT jobs could be cut. And cuts in discretionary projects across the board threaten many tech workers.
October 2, 2008... Byline: Tom Kaneshige Fearful tech workers tiptoeing along the shaky alleys of Wall Street -- and fretting about losing their jobs -- should take a deep breath. Of the more than 100,000 job losses expected as a direct result of the...

Test Center review: Small Business Server 2008 gets "small" right; Microsoft's revamp of SBS takes the sting out of setup and admin for IT-challenged shops, without sacrificing the functionality that all businesses need.
October 2, 2008... Byline: Curtis Franklin Jr. A small business is not necessarily a simple business. That rather basic lesson has taken much of the computer industry far too many years to learn. Successful SaaS vendors have realized that small businesses...

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz; Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master.
October 3, 2008... Byline: Dan Tynan It's been a week of stark contrasts. A privately funded rocket made it into space, while stock market funds crashed to earth. Apple's grip on App Store developers and Hollywood's stranglehold on DVDs both slipped, while...

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz; Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Dan Tynan It's been a week of stark contrasts. A privately funded rocket made it into space, while stock market funds crashed to earth. Apple's grip on App Store developers and Hollywood's stranglehold on DVDs both slipped, while...

Worst Windows flaws of the past decade; The exploits and oversights that left Redmond with egg on its face.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Andrew Brandt June 25, 1998, and June 30, 2008, marked two important milestones in Microsoft's evolution of the Windows OS -- the passing of the torch from Windows 95 to Windows 98, and the less seemly transition from XP to Vista....

IBM's cloud initiative repackages its familiar offerings; But a Big Blue exec hints at a future "open" offering that would avoid vendor lock-in.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Mixing together a melange of services, software, and marketing, IBM's announcement this week of its Cloud Services Initiative is about putting an organizing construct around all of its cloud offerings, according to...

HP bolsters SOA governance in Systinet 3.00; Standards support, integration with other products key to Systinet upgrade.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill HP on Monday is updating its SOA governance software, HP Systinet 3.00, which assists with discovering and reusing services in composite applications and business processes. Featured is support for standards such as...

Mono 2.0 lets .Net apps run on Linux; Cross-platform technology backs .Net Framework 2.0.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Mono 2.0, an open-source runtime enabling .Net-based applications to run on Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix, is being released Monday, featuring capabilities for a number of .Net technologies. Considered a major upgrade,...

10 power-saving myths debunked; Is powering a server off and on bad for the system? We disprove this legend and others.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Logan G. Harbaugh Companies are finding themselves embroiled in a power crisis as they struggle to find ways to rein in soaring energy costs -- as well as do their part to address global climate change. However, how can you be...

So, CTO, who's your Sarah Palin or Joe Biden? For IT, the choice of a deputy matters a great deal. So how do you get the right one?
October 7, 2008... Byline: Tom Kaneshige Even in the nuts-and-bolts world of tech execs, choosing a right-hand man (or woman, of course) can be as politically challenging as anything going on in the halls of Washington, D.C. The right right-hand person...

Microsoft touts Touchless SDK; Multimedia apps that use webcam input can be built.
October 7, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft Office Labs released Tuesday its Touchless SDK for developers to experiment with multi-touch technology. With the SDK, developers can build multi-touch applications that use a color marker and webcam for...

The perfect laptop, take two; Readers responded to our original WorldBooks with their own inspired designs, pointing the way to a marvelously modular mobile PC.
October 7, 2008... Byline: Tom Yager A number of readers responded to our call to describe their perfect notebook. We were pleased to discover they generally agreed with major elements of our WorldBook design, especially the integrated smartphone and the...

For a promising IT career, go east, young techie; The U.S. and Europe are slowing down, but hot tech jobs beckon in China, India, and Eastern Europe.
October 8, 2008... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz As IT job opportunities in the United States and Europe start to contract -- a trend that predates the current financial meltdown but may accelerate because of it -- perhaps it's time to look abroad, where there...

Red Hat boosts open source SOA; JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and the JBoss Operations Network 2.1 administration tool offered.
October 8, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Red Hat is expanding its open-source JBoss SOA platform with the unveiling Wednesday of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1. Enterprise SOA Platform supports small-integration projects...

Test Center review: Open source Drupal turns pro; Acquia's strengthened and supported distribution of the popular CMS smooths the path to a trouble-free Drupal site.
October 9, 2008... Byline: Mike Heck As we've seen time and again, in an increasing number of enterprise software categories, open source has become a promising alternative to commercial software. But there's no free ride. Support from developers is...

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz; Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master.
October 10, 2008... Byline: Dan Tynan The world's financial markets may be collapsing, but technology lives on -- for the moment, anyway. This week the feds arrested a suspect in the Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case, and both Steve Jobs and Windows XP got yet...

Microsoft elaborates on Oslo; "M" language, "Quadrant" tool, Domain Specific Languages critical to model-based software development effort.
October 10, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Shedding more light on its Oslo vision for model-based software development, Microsoft this week elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering code names and citing the company's DSL (Domain Specific...

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz; Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Dan Tynan The world's financial markets may be collapsing, but technology lives on -- for the moment, anyway. This week the feds arrested a suspect in the Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case, and both Steve Jobs and Windows XP got yet...

Get ready for next-gen mobile; There are finally real contenders emerging on the trail that Apple's iPhone blazed.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Galen Gruman Apple iPhone, move over. At least, that's the hope of Google and Research in Motion as they ready the first serious competitors to the iPhone, in the "mobile 2.0" market that Apple invented. Later this month, the...

Microsoft set to release Silverlight 2; General availability to begin Tuesday as Microsoft pushes Silverlight 2's programming capabilities as well as a planned Eclipse linkage.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft's Silverlight 2 browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications will be generally available on Tuesday along with supportive development tools, the company said during a teleconference on Monday...

Mozilla Labs pursues Web dev tools; AJAX experts to lead Mozilla's effort to create development tools for the open Web.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Dissatisfied with the Web development tools already available, researchers at the newly formed Developer Tools Lab at Mozilla Labs intend to find better options. Announced Monday, the lab will be led by Dion Almaer...

Solaris exec touts Unix platform's strengths; Company is undaunted by Linux momentum, claims many users switch back.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Solaris has been Sun Microsystems's bread-and-butter Unix system since 1992. While Unix platforms such as Solaris now are up against the open source Linux juggernaut, Sun maintains it has the technological advantages and...

Dynamic programming futures; JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and other dynamic languages are remaking the Web and bringing programming to the masses. Where should developers place their bets?
October 13, 2008... Byline: Peter Wayner What will the world of dynamic programming languages and Web applications look like in five years? This is one of those highly personal and deeply philosophical questions best saved for after dessert is served, the...

Surviving the tech manager's global squeeze; More and more IT projects involve teams from around the world, and project leaders are asked to work 24/7. It's time to stop the madness.
October 14, 2008... Byline: Maria Trombly It's the new reality of IT: working as part of a global team, with coworker and outsourcers all over the world, coordinated by a project manager at headquarters. But that reality can be ugly, as managers are stretched...

Five outside-the-box ways to cut IT costs; Tough choices lie ahead for IT departments. Get ahead of the curve with five cost-cutting tactics designed to hurt less.
October 14, 2008... Byline: Tom Sullivan Every time the economy turns downward, IT shops take a hit. In the U.S. IT market, Forrester Research predicts that growth in technology goods and services will slow in the fourth quarter of this year, a scenario...

Cisco, SAP launch joint cross-layer composite application; Application enforces data privacy rules at network and application layers.
October 14, 2008... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz In an atmosphere where government fines for breaches in privacy regulations are increasing, SAP and Cisco unveiled this week Data Privacy Composite Application by SAP and Cisco at the SAP TechEd conference in...

Microsoft eyes game-changer for app dev; The Oslo modeling-based platform is raising some questions.
October 15, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill With its ambitious Oslo software modeling platform, Microsoft seeks a new application development paradigm that raises the level of abstraction. But the effort has brought up questions about whether Oslo crowds the...

Eclipse offers mobile dev tools; Mobile Tools for Java Project release 0.9 allows applications to be built for Motorola, Nokia, and Sony Ericsson devices.
October 15, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Seeking to establish Eclipse as the standard mobile development platform, the Eclipse Foundation on Wednesday is offering the first major release of its Eclipse Mobile Tools for Java Project (MTJ). MTJ is a set of...

Government study finds H-1B visa fraud; USCIS finds 27 percent rate of fraud in the H-1B visa program, including paying low wages, forging documents, and misrepresenting jobs.
October 15, 2008... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [USCIS] study, H-1B Benefit Fraud & Compliance Assessment published in September but just coming to light this month, found a 27 percent rate of fraud in the H-1B visa...

Linux Standard Base boosts developer features; LSB 4.0 reconciles differences between Linux distributions, reducing costs of porting applications.
October 15, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill A beta version of Linux Standard Base (LSB) 4.0 released this week adds developer features to technology intended to reconcile differences between Linux distributions, the Linux Foundation said. Version 4.0 offers...

Recession-proof IT jobs; Believe it or not, some tech jobs are still in demand. Find out which ones employers need to fill.
October 16, 2008... Byline: Lisa Schmeiser IT workers may have been tempted to switch to any other field -- other than banking, that is -- following a stream of depressing surveys that gloomily predict shrinking IT budgets and shrinking career opportunities....

SpringSource unveils OSGi repository; Free repository offers more than 400 open source libraries for enterprise Java development.
October 16, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill SpringSource on Thursday is introducing a repository of OSGi libraries intended to lower barriers to modular application development based on OSGi and Java. The company is unveiling the free SpringSource Enterprise...

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz; Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master.
October 17, 2008... Byline: Dan Tynan This week saw the debut of three new Apple laptops and news of two new Microsoft operating systems (oh joy). And as the presidential election entered the home stretch, it got sticky political goo all over everything from...

Microsoft PDC to feature various technologies; Windows, Silverlight, Oslo, and cloud computing among many efforts to be detailed at conference.(Conference news)
October 17, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft bills its upcoming Professional Developers Conference as a gathering of developers and architects and a chance to understand the future of Microsoft's platform. From this backdrop, the Los Angeles conference,...

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz; Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Dan Tynan This week saw the debut of three new Apple laptops and news of two new Microsoft operating systems (oh joy). And as the presidential election entered the home stretch, it got sticky political goo all over everything from...

Stupid QA tricks: Colossal testing oversights; The trick to nipping IT miscues is testing, testing, testing, as these hard-luck lessons in boneheaded quality assurance attest.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Andrew Brandt What do you get when you add the human propensity to screw stuff up to the building of large-scale IT systems? What the military calls the force-multiplier effect -- and the need for a cadre of top-notch QA engineers....

Microsoft exec touts mixed source ventures; Interview: Microsoft's Horacio Gutierrez talks about IP issues, piracy.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft has been making moves on the licensing front and accommodations with open source, such as its controversial 2006 agreement with Novell pertaining to Suse Linux. Looking to elaborate on Microsoft's activities,...

OpenAjax moves on interoperability, security; Microsoft, Oracle also pitch wares at AJAXWorld.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill The OpenAjax Alliance plans in 2009 to finish off two interoperability technologies for AJAX developers, IBM officials said at the AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo on Monday. Interviewed at the San Jose, Calif....

Dell primes PowerEdge servers for virtualization; PowerEdge R805 and R905 boast VM-friendly features, raise bar for HP and IBM.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Andrew Binstock With virtualization's popularity soaring, it was predictable that hardware vendors would eventually bring to market specialized servers that cater to the needs of virtual machines. The market leader in this category...

Tech workers: Ready to be a free agent? Having the right technical skills is only half the battle for an IT contractor in tough economic times.
October 21, 2008... Byline: Tom Kaneshige In these uncertain times, who isn't worried about job security? There are ominous signs aplenty: tech projects put on the chopping block, layoffs looming, and spotty full-time hiring opportunities on job boards. It's...

Update: Adobe's Ichabod boosts Flash search; Company working with Google, Yahoo on effort to help search engines index Flash- and AJAX-based content.
October 21, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Adobe Systems has developed technology called "Ichabod," to better enable search engines to index AJAX-based content, an Adobe official said on Tuesday morning. The Ichabod technology already has been released to...

IBM works on next-gen Web collaboration; The company unveiled its OpusUna Web-conferencing platform at AJAXWorld; also, Sun touted the upcoming JSF spec.
October 21, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill IBM is working on a Web-conferencing platform dubbed OpusUna, which offers all participants the ability to collaborate using the same Web pages and features audio and video. The AJAX-based technology was discussed by...

Would-be WiMax users find a shortcut; Broadband geeks changing zip codes to get an earlier crack at Sprint's new wireless service.
October 21, 2008... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Wireless users in Baltimore are standing politely in line to sign up for just launched Sprint WiMax service, called Xohm, pronounced "zome," at slightly better than the expected rate, according to Sprint...

Palm Treo Pro: A sweet Windows smartphone; Review: If you're partial to Windows Mobile, you'd be hard-pressed to do better than the new Treo Pro from Palm.
October 21, 2008... Byline: Mike Heck The BlackBerry, iPhone, and T-Mobile G1 may be the kings of smartphone cool, but if you ask me, they all share one big shortcoming: They don't run Windows Mobile. I know that statement puts me in a distinct minority....

Java update finally ships; Applet-focused upgrade had been delayed nearly two months.
October 22, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill After a nearly two-month delay, Sun announced this week availability of Java Platform Standard Edition 6 Update 10, which offers an improved startup for applications and applets and drag-and-drop capabilities for...

Microsoft expanding Surface access; Developers no longer need to buy a Surface device to get the SDK, allowing more of them to get crack at the touch-based apps platform.
October 23, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles next week will expand access to its Surface SDK for building applications for its surface computing platform. Developers will no longer need to first...

MuleSource adds to open source SOA, ESB; Custom extensions added to the company's SOA governance platform, while its ESB sports REST support.
October 23, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Furthering its open source SOA middleware, MuleSource this week upgraded both its SOA governance platform, enabling custom extensions, and its ESB, which offers REST (Representational State Transfer) support. Mule...

Looking for job security? Try Cobol; As long as there are mainframes, there will be Cobol. Learn the language and the culture and you might land a job that that lasts until retirement.
October 23, 2008... Byline: Tom Sullivan A career as a Cobol programmer might not be as sexy as slinging Java code or scripting in Ruby, but if you buckle down and learn hoary old Cobol, you could land one of the safest, most secure jobs in IT. Analyst...

Test Center review: A Web-based app builder with a Microsoft twist; Caspio Bridge, like a Microsoft Access on the Web, allows nonprogrammers to easily create online databases and the Web forms to fill them.
October 23, 2008... Byline: Peter Wayner Now that the desktop revolution is largely over, most of the excitement lies in the counter-desktop revolution that is bringing all the flair developed by the desktop programmers back to the safe world of the server....

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz; Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master.
October 24, 2008... Byline: Dan Tynan iPhones rule, everyone else drools this week in our news quiz. Whether it's employees or naughty words, everyone seems to be cutting back something. Also making headlines this week: Bill Gates' new company, Comcast's new...

Microsoft looks to secure Web content; Web Sandbox effort to foster more efficient cross-browser development and more secure Web apps features JavaScript virtualization layer.
October 24, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft will herald a security project called Web Sandbox, for securing Web content through isolation, at the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles next week. The Microsoft Live Labs Web...

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz; Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master.
October 27, 2008... Byline: Dan Tynan iPhones rule, everyone else drools this week in our news quiz. Whether it's employees or naughty words, everyone seems to be cutting back something. Also making headlines this week: Bill Gates' new company, Comcast's new...

Open source: How e-voting should be done; An open source approach to open voting systems is essential to the integrity of our electoral process. Here's a technical blueprint for securing the vote.
October 27, 2008... Byline: Paul Venezia "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin In the past eight years, elections in the...

Is tech in more trouble than we think? The word on the street is that this recession will not be too rough on IT spending. But that analysis may not reflect the latest events.
October 27, 2008... Byline: Tom Sullivan When the financial crisis first struck, it appeared that IT shops were prepared to weather the storm and that IT spending might hold up despite the downward economy. But a lot has happened since then. Several more...

Update: Microsoft launches Windows Azure for the cloud; Microsoft's scalable hosting environment aims to help developers build applications spanning from the cloud to the datacenter and PCs, the Web, and phones.
October 27, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill and Eric Knorr At Microsoft's PDC (Professional Developers Conference) in Los Angeles, Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie unveiled the company's much-anticipated cloud computing platform, dubbed Windows Azure. ...

Microsoft to open up 'M' language; Modeling technology to be offered under company's Open Specification Promise.
October 27, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft will reveal on Tuesday its intent to open up its planned "M" application modeling language via the company's OSP (Open Specification Promise), according to the company. The company will offer up parts of M...

Microsoft finally unveils browser-based Office apps; Take that, Google! In a PDC preview, Microsoft shows off Office Web apps, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
October 28, 2008... Byline: Eric Knorr Will they? Won't they? Ever since Google Apps arrived on the scene, Microsoft has been dogged by the question of when it might release browser-based versions of its Office apps. At the PDC (Professional Developer...

WiMax is here: What you need to know; Early adopters, analysts reveal the pros and cons of the wireless broadband service.
October 28, 2008... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz With the launch of Sprint's WiMax wireless broadband data service, called Xohm (pronounced "zome") in Baltimore in early October, Sprint was able to rightly claim it is the first carrier to offer the long-awaited...

Microsoft advances embedded apps; Upgrade of .Net Micro Framework expands language, processor support.
October 28, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft on Tuesday is unveiling an upgrade to its .Net Micro Framework for building applications for embedded systems, featuring expanded language and processor support. Release of Version 3.0 of the framework is being...

Microsoft lays out Silverlight ambitions; At the Microsoft PDC, the company detailed future plans for its Silverlight platform, including offline capabilities and richer graphics support.
October 28, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill A Microsoft official cited on Tuesday improvements planned for the company's Silverlight platform for rich Internet applications, including intentions to run Silverlight applications outside of a browser. This...

Embarcadero, Compuware add .Net tools; One lets developers use Prism for Windows .Net apps, the other updates its code scanning tool.
October 28, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Embarcadero Technologies will preview its Delphi Prism .Net development product today at the 2008 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. It features a managed code database engine that targets...

Microsoft previews Windows 7 client OS; Compatibility, user customization, energy efficiency, and multitouch interfaces among the Windows 7 planned enhancements.
October 28, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft today touted the five themes of the upcoming Windows 7 client OS and made a pre-release version of the software available for developers at the company's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles....

First look: Windows 7 takes on Apple and IT needs; Microsoft's antidote to Vista touts lower resource requirements, tighter device integration, and IT-friendly features.
October 28, 2008... Byline: Tom Yager Activists have long known that the way to take the sting out of a pejorative moniker is to adopt it and proclaim it with pride. So it is with Microsoft, whose "I'm a PC" campaign goes to the question that Mike Nash,...

The non-union union IT might accept; Looking for job protection, health benefits, and legal assistance without a union mentality? The IITW may be for you.
October 29, 2008... Byline: Betsy Harter InfoWorld got the message loud and clear from readers and analysts that the IT community is opposed to unionization. And the unions we contacted had little to no interest in representing tech workers. One...

Who needs an enterprise AJAX solution? Extensive support is but one differentiator between commercial and open source AJAX frameworks.
October 29, 2008... Byline: Martin Heller One thing that the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development community has aplenty is choice. Want a free, open source AJAX framework? We have (alphabetically) Dojo, Ext, Google Web Toolkit, jQuery, MooTools,...

Should enterprises reconsider the cloud? CTOs worry about security and availability. But Oracle and Microsoft now offer their core technology via Amazon. Is it time to trust the cloud?
October 30, 2008... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz, Tom Sullivan With support for three of the major pillars of application development and deployment -- Oracle 11g, Microsoft SQL, and open source MySQL -- under its belt, Amazon.com appears to be anticipating a...

Lab test: Juniper WXC speeds WAN traffic; SSL acceleration and support for SMB-signed Windows traffic highlight a well-rounded offering.
October 30, 2008... Byline: Keith Schultz Speeding up the delivery of applications and data to remote users is the No. 1 goal of WAN acceleration and optimization. Not only does it help get more done over the same amount of bandwidth -- or less -- but WAN...

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz; Match your weekly tech news wits against our snarky quiz master.
October 31, 2008... Byline: Dan Tynan Scary times indeed. This Halloween you may encounter a few real zombies -- like financial pros shell-shocked by continuing economic turmoil or presidential campaigners nearing the end of their tether. But the news isn't...

Aptana introduces AJAX servers; Aptana Jaxer 1.0 and Jaxer Pro let developers build apps using JavaScript, DOM, CSS, HTML; Mozilla Firefox browser engine is featured.
October 31, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill Aptana this week announced the release of Aptana Jaxer 1.0 and the introduction of Jaxer Pro, both of which are "AJAX servers" that let developers build Web applications using JavaScript, DOM, CSS, and HTML. Jaxer...

The inside view of Microsoft's cloud strategy; The project lead explains why the hypervisor is not Hyper-V, how multitenant apps are supported, and why Azure is not like Amazon's EC2.
October 31, 2008... Byline: Paul Krill and Eric Knorr Microsoft this week launched its cloud computing environment, Windows Azure, which is the foundation of the Azure Services Platform for developing applications extending from the cloud to PCs, datacenters,...