Development

AppForge, under new CEO Gary Warren, who has a mandate to refocus the company's target market from consumer to enterprise developers, this week began shipping Crossfire 5.0, a mobile and wireless cross-application development environment designed for Microsoft .Net developers.

Microsoft Corp. issued a beta release of version 3.0 of the Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA) tool this week

Web services management software company, Infravio Inc., announced on Tuesday that it has ported its Ensemble Web Services Management Suite to the Hewlett-Packard's NonStop Platform, allowing for easier application integration for companies that use HP NonStop's.

A new Desktop Linux Working Group is being created by the nonprofit Open Source Development Labs Inc. (OSDL) to explore and develop the use of Linux on the desktop for business users.

Web sites featuring resources for developers on the Java and .Net platforms are being unveiled Tuesday in separate announcements.

IBM Corp. on Thursday made a technology preview of its upcoming version of its WebSphere Application Server 6.0 due later this year.

I used to have a programming rule that said "never do with application code what you can do with SQL."

Japan's Miracle Linux Corp. and China's Red Flag Software Co. Ltd. are jointly developing a Linux server platform for corporate and government users in the Asian market.