Andy Patrizio

Microsoft has established the Interop Vendor Alliance, a group of software and hardware vendors designed to promote interoperability between hardware and software systems. Members include Microsoft partners AMD  , Business Objects , Novell  and XenSource, as well as rivals BEA Systems  and Sun Microsystems . The group will work with customers to identify their top […]

ESET Software will release NOD32 2.7 of its antivirus software on Friday, November 17, expanding its capabilities in malware  and adding support for Windows Vista. The new release, posted to the ESET home page on Tuesday, has broadened its coverage to include unwanted and nuisance software, but not necessarily dangerous programs, like adware, code for […]

Borland Software continued its reinvention as an application lifecycle management (ALM) developer with the release of Borland StarTeam and Borland CaliberRM, both aimed at managing the development process across a large team. StarTeam is Borland’s software change and configuration management offering, while CaliberRM is Borland’s  enterprise requirements management offering. Both are designed to automate and […]

UPDATED: SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Sun Microsystems  is moving forward on its open source plans for Java with an ambitious new licensing strategy: it’s adopting the GNU  General Public License for its open source projects, starting with the Java source code it released today. As the company promised this summer, it’s releasing the Java C […]

Attention etailers: short attention spans are not just for MTV viewers any more. If your site takes too long to load, customers will abandon you, and “too long” is now defined as four seconds. That’s the results of a survey performed by JupiterKagan and sponsored by Akamai Technologies . The survey spoke to 1,058 online […]

Microsoft has launched the second beta of its ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, formerly known as Atlas, a trio of extensions designed to make it easy to develop Ajax applications on Microsoft’s .Net platform. ASP.NET AJAX consists of three components: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta2, the core components that includes the client-side and server-side functionality; the Control Toolkit, […]

On Tuesday, Microsoft  will issue it’s monthly batch of patches and security fixes. This time around, the number of fixes is smaller than usual, hopefully a good sign for the future. One of those fixes is to Microsoft XML Core Services, a vulnerability found just in the past few days in Microsoft’s XML parser that […]

Jim Allchin got out the pom-poms again to once again cheer for Windows Vista as he announced on a conference call that he has signed off on the project. “It’s rock solid and we’re ready to ship,” said the co-president of Microsoft’s platform and services division. So everything is now on track to deliver the […]

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is the next stop on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) case against AT&T over alleged collaboration with the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) domestic surveillance program. The court decided on Tuesday decided it would hear an appeal of a district court’s decision allowing the EFF’s case to go forward […]

Microsoft is taking a page from its traditional software development program to help vendors looking to get into the software-as-a-service market (SaaS). The company on Tuesday announced the SaaS On-Ramp Program, which is modeled after Microsoft’s ISV Royalty Licensing Program. Microsoft  launched the ISV Royalty Licensing Program six years ago to assist software developers in […]

Zeus Technology released its Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (ZXTM VA) for VMWare, a software-based version of its traffic management system for virtual environments. It’s got admin traffic cops written all over it. Traffic managers are sometimes called load balancers. They are used in virtual environments to do just as the names imply. The […]

Adobe Systems has announced that it will contribute the source code for its ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation, to be hosted under a new project called Tamarin. ActionScript is Adobe’s implementation of ECMAScript, the formal name given to JavaScript  when it was turned over to a standards body that almost no one uses. […]