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Borland to assemble Java with .NET

Borland Software expects later this year to deliver on its plans to bundle tools that work with Java and Microsoft's .Net software. Read more »

Ballmer: Nothing's rotten in Denmark

Steve Ballmer says there is a simple way to turn around Microsoft's money-losing enterprise applications business--make the whole world like Denmark. Read more »

Microsoft exec: Wooing away Java developers

Microsoft's John Montgomery is out to persuade developers to embrace .Net. But the task promises to be a chore in light of recent legal wrangling between Microsoft and archrival Sun. Read more »

Microsoft Web services plan targets Java

The company aims to turn up the heat on Java rivals with plans for software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications. Read more »

Open source: The newest competitive tool

A few years ago, releasing once-secret source code to the public would have been a highly unusual first move for a company with a newly acquired software product line. Read more »

Developers compete at heavyweight Linux conference

Developers are gearing up for a fiercely competitive hack-fest at a heavyweight Linux conference in Adelaide this month. Read more »

Yahoo to chop at least 1,400 jobs

Yahoo yesterday in the US reported a 64 per cent drop in net income for the third quarter, issued cautions about a weakening advertising market, and confirmed that layoffs were indeed on the way. Read more »

SAP opens arms to NetWeaver community

Business applications giant SAP expanded its partner network and launched a community forum meant to foster development for its NetWeaver software. Read more »

Is Microsoft a threat to VMware?

The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualisation leader VMware. Read more »

Banks 'should give back to open-source community'

Major open-source vendors on Monday called for financial companies to contribute more code to the open-source community. Read more »

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Features (8)

All about Longhorn

COMMENTARY -- Longhorn will be immensely popular once it is released, because Longhorn is revolutionary technology that makes desktop computing better. Read more »

Selling developers on .Net

He's hardly as well-known as Bill Gates but Eric Rudder will have more influence over the future of Microsoft's bet-the-company .Net software strategy than his more famous boss. Read more »

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »

Borland's bird's-eye view

Borland chief strategy officer Ted Shelton provides penetrating insight on .Net, Java, Web services, and today's controversies over standards in Part 1 of this interview. Read more »

Microsoft builds up server tools

At its TechEd conference, Microsoft will try to convince businesses to revive spending on technology as it will drop names such as Yukon and BizTalk. Read more »

Will MS Longhorn outflank Java rivals?

The debut of a new Windows operating system won't necessarily determine the outcome of the jockeying between Microsoft, IBM, Sun and BEA. Read more »

A simpler Java?

With C# and .NET from Microsoft breathing down its neck, Java is facing more heat than it has before. Java creator James Gosling explains Sun's gameplan: A simpler Java that can be deployed faster. Read more »

Web sites for developers

Once you've specialised in an area of technology, you have to stay current. Builder.com looks at technology-specific Web sites for developers. Read more »

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