Paul Krill

Compuware Corp. and Segue Software Inc. this week are bolstering their application management wares, with Compuware finding ways to boost performance without increasing a user's equipment expenses and Segue managing application quality.

Microsoft Corp. with Visual Studio 2005 is pledging to provide mobile application developers with facilities equal to what desktop developers have had, said company officials at the VSLive conference here on Thursday.

Looking to boost its presence in enterprise applications, MySQL AB on Wednesday will make the clustered version of its open source database available in a preview version, with the production version set for release in the third quarter of 2004.

IBM Corp. on Tuesday will unveil its Autonomic Computing Zone, an online information resource featuring daily and weekly updates of information pertaining to autonomic computing.

Emphasizing ambitions in radio frequency identification (RFID), Microsoft Corp. on Monday will announce formation of the Microsoft RFID Council, a multi-vendor group that will study requirements for Microsoft

IBM Corp. plans to further leverage the Eclipse open source tools platform as part of its developer tools strategy during the next 18 months.

Sun Microsystems Inc. on April 8 will make available an Early Access release of its visual development environment for Java, called Sun Java Studio Creator, Sun officials said on Monday.

A panel of programmers famous for applications such as VisiCalc and Excel and the Apple Computer Inc. Macintosh operating system mused on where programming has been and where it is going during a panel session at the Software Development Conference & Expo West 2004 event in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday.