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Reporters Notebook: Decorum Rules at CeBIT Show

HANNOVER, Germany—Remember those days when you wore a suit and tie and polished shoes to trade shows? Those were the days before casual Fridays...

Software Group Seeks EU Patent Reform

The BSA has called for reform to Europes patent system, in the same week that Microsoft put forward a U.S. patent reform plan and...

Controversial Mac Emulator Released

CherryOS, the controversial Macintosh emulator for Windows that some commentators have accused of being a reworked version of open-source project PearPC, has finally been...

Patents Cast Shadow on Future Development

Software patents, in the idiom of the Star Wars saga, are the Dark Side of the Force. If everyone would forswear their power to...

Microsoft, Borland Offer Process Guidance for Developers

As developer demand for process guidance continues to grow, tool makers such as Microsoft Corp. and Borland Software Corp. are answering the call with...

Microsoft MVPs Say They Want Old VB Back

Microsoft Corp. is facing a revolt from some of its favored developers over the companys support for what the developers are calling classic Visual...

Wind River Focuses on Open Source

Wind River—the largest vendor of software platforms and tools in the embedded market—has focused its message for the 2005 Embedded Systems Conference on open...

Dispersed Software Teams Call on New Aids for Collaboration

Enterprise software strategists are struggling to address the expansion and intensification of collaborative development efforts. The growing mass of legacy IT systems, the spreading...

Microsoft Expected to Speak on Project Green

With much of the small-and-midsize-business market still unpenetrated, Microsoft Corp. is intensifying development efforts to provide that hard-to-reach space with more-viable products. At its Business...

UML Integration Reaches Impressive Degree

Supporting collaborative software efforts requires skill and effort in identifying relationships, avoiding misunderstandings and building a sense of shared commitment to mutual goals—what some...