Microsoft closes The Noughties by trying to keep up with competitors and to remain a top destination for developers by embracing cloud computing and open source. It opened the decade with another massive platform shift, though: the introduction of .NET.
.NET was announced at the first TechEd of decade in Amsterdam in the year 2000 with [...]

Integration featured between System Architect software and other Rational technologies
IBM Rational is introducing on Wednesday several enhancements to its Rational product line intended to enhance customers’ own product development efforts.
“We’re focused on the larger strategy of moving toward providing better support for our customers as they develop smarter products that are more interconnected, more wired,” [...]

A group of companies is starting up an Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council in hopes of removing barriers to enterprise use of hosted cloud computing.
Initial members include companies that offer hosted cloud computing as well as enterprises that use such services, including Microsoft, IBM, HP, Cisco, AT&T, BT, EMC, Deutsche Bank, Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs, CA, Nokia [...]

Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others are investing aggressively in the cloud, even as critics point to security, reliability, and compatibility issues. We cut through the fog.
What is it about “the cloud” that has people, well, getting their heads up in the clouds over it? Almost no other IT innovation in recent memory has engendered this [...]