Allison Taylor

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Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday released the latest version of its application server to run Java-enabled programs, the first update to Sun

Microsoft Corp. announced on Tuesday that users of its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) would have an extra three years to stop using the software and migrate to either Microsoft .Net or another Java product.

More than 75,000 Canadian IT jobs could be lost to offshore outsourcing by 2010 unless the country repositions itself as a nearshore venue and provider of IT services for U.S. and European companies, according to a study released earlier this month by consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The JBoss Group LLC could be moving towards offering an open source format of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) within the next six months as part of the company

It remains to be seen whether a decision by GT Group Telecom Services Corp. to offer Canadian businesses free long distance within North America will have an impact on those firms that are looking for a new telecommunications company. At the end of the day, an enterprise's telecom needs are a little more complex than some savings on long distance, according to one industry insider.

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PRAGUE - For many university students, the secret to programming code is to relax and have fun, and that just might be the unofficial slogan for this year's 28th annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest.