Paul Krill

Sun Microsystems Inc. is readying an upgrade to its enterprise-level application server and is touting new downloading figures as evidence of the company

IBM Corp. on Monday unveiled free developer resources for Cloudscape, a small-footprint, Java-based database that the company recently contributed to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project.

Microsoft Corp. is refreshing the beta release of its Visual Studio 2005 developer tool platform to feature the full range of technologies planned for the company's Team System application life cycle management system, Microsoft representatives acknowledged recently.

Focused on improving its requirements management arsenal for software development, Borland Software Corp. on Wednesday announced its acquisition of Estimate Professional, a software project planning and estimation tool.

BEA Systems Inc. continues to see an exodus of high-level executives, with chief marketing officer Tod Nielsen exiting this week.

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Tuesday is releasing three profiles intended to make it easier to send attachments using Web services technologies.

BEA Systems Inc. on Monday is releasing a version of its application infrastructure suite designed to enable ISVs to deliver products for service-oriented architectures (SOAs).

Macromedia Inc. has announced a video kit to enable users of its authoring tools suite, Macromedia Studio MX 2004 with Flash Professional, to more easily add video to their Web sites.