Andy Patrizio

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — As part of its first developer conference for a still-unreleased programming language, Salesforce.com announced plans to integrate its Apex language and on-demand Web services with service oriented architectures (SOA) . Salesforce.com  customers have been able to produce Web services for some time, but Salesforce SOA will allow them to consume Web […]

Reporter’s Notebook LOS ANGELES — “Microsoft shipped Windows before the drivers were ready. People shouldn’t be so quick to jump because there’s a serious lack of drivers and it breaks many applications from previous versions.” Sound familiar? It should, because it’s what a lot of reporters were saying about Windows XP when it launched in […]

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – It would seem obvious that a show like the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) would be the place to lay out a roadmap for the future, but in this case, Microsoft’s map doesn’t stretch very far. This year’s WinHEC show comes smack between the release of the new client software, Vista, […]

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — While Microsoft  chairman Bill Gates chatted with the audience here at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), at least one attendee was wrestling with a balky Wi-Fi connection and a Windows XP crash causing a locked-up laptop. Back to work, Bill. Technical difficulties aside, Gates’ confirmed in his keynote speech what […]

AMD today said it has improved its test center for evaluating dual- and quad-core processors. The AMD  Developer Center, located in the company’s Sunnyvale, Calif. offices, includes a test bed for the new quad-core Opteron processor, code-named “Barcelona.” Later in this quarter, AMD will offer customers and partners access to fully configured dual-core and quad-core […]

The successor to AMD’s Athlon desktop product line has been officially named: Phenom. Seriously. Developed under the codename Agena, the Phenom line is based on the same technologies being incorporated into the heavily-hyped Barcelona chips for servers. Like Barcelona, it will support the AM2 socket, so existing motherboards can use the new chip with just […]

Intel and PGP have announced a partnership to sell encryption products on systems with Centrino Pro and vPro technologies. These products will be sold and marketed through Intel’s channel and customers. PGP’s Encryption Platform and Whole Disk Encryption will be supported in both Windows Vista and XP. Intel  will integrate PGP’s products into its Active […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) was supposed to be the technology for building modular server-side enterprise applications, but a stumble by Sun Microsystems, coupled with its newfound openness, has given rise to an alternative that’s gaining in popularity. The Spring Framework, first written by British consultant Rod Johnson in 2000, jumped ahead of […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Oracle is jumping into AJAX  in a big way with news it would donate more than 80 AJAX components to the Apache Software Foundation under an open source license. These components do a variety of tasks, such as data binding between Java and services like e-mail, voice and video data and […]

SAN FRANCISCO –- Sun Microsystems appears to be getting bolder and more aggressive in how Java, the language that was supposed to be lightweight and easily portable, is meant to be used. In demos here at the Sun’s JavaOne conference, the company’s plans for Java are considerably more ambitious and complex. Of course, this means […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Consulting giant Accenture is working on a Java standard for performing batch processing , a task normally thought of as a job for mainframe computers. But in the era of SOA , and with the efforts on the part of many firms to get away from mainframes, Accenture&nsbp;thinks this is an […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — You know all that AJAX code you’ve been writing and tearing your hair out over as you attempt to get the JavaScript working in both Internet Explorer and Firefox? Yeah, that AJAX code . It’s all going to be useless real soon. Sun Microsystems gave journalists a sneak peak at a […]