Three vendors, three different paths on dealing with the open-source data architecture
The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways.
While startups and established data warehousing vendors such as Sybase Inc. and Teradata Inc. are embracing Hadoop and its Google-developed [...]

In October, we shipped Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.  Since then, we have received a lot of helpful, constructive feedback from you all.  Thank you.
A lot of you have given us very positive feedback on the new capabilities of VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4 and are very happy with [...]

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 [...]

ERP seller Nexedi in bid to take database out of Oracle’s hands
French ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Nexedi made a public bid to take over stewardship of the open-source MySQL database from Sun Microsystems, offering a symbolic €1 in return.
Oracle announced plans to buy Sun in April.
The deal has been held up for months [...]

Fourteen years ago, a marketing genius at Sun Microsystems changed the name of a cross-platform experimental language from the very dependable-sounding “Oak” to the hyper-caffeinated moniker “Java,” and proved once again why engineers are scared of the power that the marketing department can unleash when lightning strikes.
That era of unbridled hype is long gone, and [...]