Development

Sun Microsystems Inc. continues to place its focus on appealing to the developer community with a recent upgrade to its Java Web Services Development Pack 1.4, available online. The company also announced a new edition of the Sun Java System Application Server 7 for its Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), which is available as a free download.

We all know the browser wars are over. Microsoft's Internet Explorer is the dominant browser. Yet, for various reasons, scores of other browsers remain out there.

Practicing what it preaches as part of its On Demand gospel, IBM Corp. on Thursday announced a new grid-based program that allows developers to virtually access a range of hardware and software resources on an on-demand basis to build and sell solutions.

The African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (Avoir) project was put together so that African institutions could have access to modern technology-based learning systems - and so that they could be part of developing a world-class technology in Africa, and for Africa (but usable by anyone else around the world).

Not only is it now easier to track development of the Linux kernel, but Linux contributors will now also receive more credit for their input, the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) announced on Monday.

There will be more change and innovation in information technology in the next 10 years than in the past decade, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday.

Linux vendors have rushed to distribute patches for a critical flaw in CVS, a widely used program for collaborating on software development, that could allow a malicious user unauthorized access to development code.

Three Web developers were sitting around arguing over what the most abundant thing on the Internet is.