Managed Services & Outsourcing

A Sun Microsystems Inc. official at the BorCon conference in San Jose, California on Tuesday touted the Java Community Process (JCP) for amending the Java programming language, but did not have any revelations pertaining to industry calls for making Java available under an open source format.

IBM Corp.'s SpeedStart Linux Software Evaluation Kit (SEK) is not only the company's, but also perhaps the industry's, most generous SEK offering ever. Designed to bring Linux adoption into enterprise systems, IBM decided to target developers with such a rich variety of tools and applications in order to encourage continued use of Linux. In this manner, the company hopes to see its products being used in concert with Linux.

JBoss Inc. on Monday is shipping JBoss Application Server 4.0, which the company is billing as the first open source application server certified as compatible with the J2EE 1.4 platform.

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Microsoft Corp. recently said it will sacrifice some key advances it had planned for Longhorn so it can deliver the successor to Windows XP in 2006.

Tales from the depths of IT departments.

The tendency to seize the first solution we think of, even for the most inconsequential of problems, is a dangerous one.