Allison Taylor

Aiming to encourage smaller, independent software vendors in Canada and around the world to start using Visual Studio .Net, Microsoft Canada Co. announced on Wednesday a few changes to its Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) Program.

Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) and Sun Microsystems Inc. announced plans on Monday to co-operate on developing Java bindings to the OpenGL application programming interface (API).

The extent of Web services adoption depends on how successful the industry is in making them interoperable, the president and chairman of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) said at a recent roundtable discussion on Web services in Toronto.

In an effort to provide .Net developers with a way to work in virtual, collaborative communities, Microsoft Corp. this month took the wraps off GotDotNet Workspaces 1.0.

Network Associates Inc. has unveiled a new support service called PrimeSupport Hardware Program, which is designed to provide customers with fixes for all their installed network infrastructure hardware.

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced plans on Monday to submit its Web Services Management Framework (WSMF) for industry review to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) has given recommendation status to the latest version, 1.2, of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) specification

The speed and extent of Web services adoption depends on the success of making them interoperable, the president and chairman of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) said at a roundtable discussion on Web services in Toronto on Thursday.