Tom Sullivan

With its first iteration of Visual Studio .Net just a few days more than six months old, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday began revealing details of the next version, as well as an upgrade to the .Net Framework.

A new version of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) specification will be submitted to the Object Management Group (OMG) this fall and will include enhancements that make model-driven development easier

A new version of the UML (Unified Modeling Language) specification will be submitted to the OMG (Object Management Group) this fall and will include enhancements that make model-driven development easier -- but most developers won't even see the changes.

Slapping the long-awaited version number "8" behind the letters DB2, IBM Corp. said Monday it is making available a public beta of its next-generation database.

Macromedia Inc.'s chief software architect Kevin Lynch detailed the company's strategy to enhance Internet communications at a recent conference.

Filemaker Inc. on Tuesday will broaden its database strategy to include XML data interchange and application integration with the release of FileMaker Pro 6.

Web services hold the potential to change many things about software, not the least of which is how it is developed.

Extending the concept of grid computing, IBM Corp. officials revealed details of new software research that engineers refer to as a data grid.