Paul Krill

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Wednesday announced general availability of its tools for testing interoperability with the WS-I Basic Profile for use...

Fears that offshore developers will take jobs away from North American counterparts are being overblown, charged a keynote speaker and noted author at the recent Software Development Conference & Expo West 2004 event in Santa Clara, Calif.

Sun Microsystems Inc.

IBM Corp. on Monday will preview technology for structural analysis of Java application development projects.

Microsoft Corp. is leading a group of vendors proposing a specification intended to extend Web services to devices. An official at rival Sun Microsystems Inc., however, blasted Microsoft for what Sun believes is another attempt to foist a Web services standard on the rest of the industry.

Sun Microsystems Inc., in a somewhat sarcastic open letter to IBM Corp. posted on Sun's Web site, is inviting Big Blue to purchase Sun's Linux-based Sun Java Desktop System for IBM's own employees.

Sun Microsystems Inc., in a somewhat sarcastic open letter to IBM Corp. posted on Sun's Web site, is inviting Big Blue to purchase Sun's Linux-based Sun Java Desktop System for IBM's own employees.

WS-Security, a widely supported proposal for securing Web services, could become an official OASIS standard by March.