Paul Krill

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced it is joining the Microsoft Visual Studio .Net Integration program, which, when coupled with the company's Java support, is intended to promote multi-platform development of OpenView management applications.

Microsoft Corp. with the planned Yukon version of its SQL Server database intends to bring business intelligence to the masses, an executive of the software company said during a keynote presentation at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit.

Standardization of Web services choreography, which will enable development of complex Web services for business, is 18 months to two years away, said a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) official Wednesday while the W3C met to take up the issue.

Microsoft Corp., with its upcoming "Yukon" and 64-bit "Liberty" variants of its SQL Server database, is looking to oust Unix as the platform of choice for the enterprise, a Microsoft official stressed during a keynote speech Nov. 20 at the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit (PASS) conference here.

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit announced it has released beta 2 of its planned SQL Server 2000 64-bit database as well as a beta of a service pack for the existing SQL Server 2000 database.

SAN FRANCISCO - Reaffirming its commitment to Linux, an Oracle Corp. official at the OracleWorld conference here on Wednesday stressed Oracle's intentions to merge several Linux-related projects into a single distribution by partnering with Linux vendor Red Hat Inc.

Macromedia Inc. on Monday announced Macromedia Contribute, a desktop application extending Web site editing to laymen.

Microsoft Corp. officials, including Chairman Bill Gates, will reveal details of improvements planned for the Visual C++ .Net and Visual C# .Net programming languages at a conference in Seattle on Friday.