<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from .NET DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from .NET DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>.NET DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:34:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from .NET DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/9/dndj-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>WinForms Wizard Control by DevExpress</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/615575.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/615575.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/615575_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[DevExpress is proud to announce the immediate availability of the XtraWizard component suite for Windows Forms. Built and optimized for Visual Studio .NET, this Wizard control radically simplifies the way in which developers create and deliver step-by-step 'guides' and/or detailed data entry forms in their smart client solutions.]]></description></item><item><title>WinForms Gauge Control by DevExpress</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/615574.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/615574.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/615574_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[DevExpress is proud to announce the immediate availability of the XtraGauge Component Suite for Windows Forms. Built and optimized for Visual Studio .NET, this Gauge control radically simplifies the way in which developers create and deliver dashboard-style UIs to their customers.]]></description></item><item><title>Icahn Snags Three Yahoo Board Seats, But Yang Remains</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/615384.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/615384.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/615384_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Shareholder activist Carl Icahn has joined the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. Jerry Yang remains in place as CEO. Two further seats will be filled by two people from a list of nine candidates recommended by Icahn.]]></description></item><item><title>And Now the Begging</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/595781.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/595781.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/595781_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Mithras Capital, which owns a relatively small block of 1.7 million shares of Yahoo and would vote for Icahn's replacement slate in a heartbeat, sent an open letter to Microsoft Thursday asking Steve Ballmer to take Microsoft's 'alternate transaction' directly to Yahoo's stockholders. That's the better-than-Google deal that Microsoft claimed - after talks with Yahoo fell apart a second time - was worth better than $33 a share.]]></description></item><item><title>Working at Google vs. Working at Microsoft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/603827.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/603827.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/603827_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Recently I've been bumping into more and more people who've either left Google to come to Microsoft or got offers from both companies and picked Microsoft over Google. I believe this is part of a larger trend especially since I've seen lots of people who left the company for 'greener pastures' return in the past year (at least 8 people I know personally have rejoined). However in this blog post I'll stick to talking about people who've chosen Microsoft over Google.]]></description></item><item><title>JetBrains Releases ReSharper 4.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/586785.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/586785.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/586785_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[JetBrains announced the release of ReSharper version 4.0, the compan's productivity add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio. This release is spearheaded by across-the-board support for C# 3.0 language, including LINQ, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 in general. In addition, the upgraded add-in features multiple new usability and productivity-boosting tools, such as standard class library annotations, solution-wide analysis (for C#), versatile code cleanup, new automated refactorings, new and improved code-editing capabilities, and more.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Kinda Moves Offline</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/595782.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/595782.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/595782_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has bought Navic Networks, a move that puts it in the business of placing TV commercials in near real-time, one of the things that Steve Ballmer may have had in mind when he said there were a lot of things you could do with $50 billion besides buying Yahoo.]]></description></item><item><title>Was GPLv3 Worth the Effort?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/595711.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/595711.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/595711_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[GPLv3, the great General Public License rewrite, is now a year-old and used by 2,345 open source projects including Ubuntu, SugarCRM and Samba. Adoption has reportedly been growing at about 20% a month over the past six months. According to some figures sent around by Black Duck, approximately 58% of all open source projects today are covered by GPLv2 and 11% by LGPLv2.]]></description></item><item><title>Atos Origin and Cordys Sign Worldwide Alliance Agreement to Offer Innovative SOA Solutions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/591595.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/591595.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/591595_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Atos Origin and Cordys have signed a worldwide alliance to jointly offer innovative state-of-the-art BPM solutions. The companies will collaborate on the implementation of joint market offerings; using the Cordys Business Process Management Suite (BPMS), in conjunction with a range of consulting, systems integration, application management and managed operation services from Atos Origin.]]></description></item><item><title>Wind River to Enable Virtualization for Devices with Introduction of Scalable Hypervisor</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/591458.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/591458.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/591458_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Wind River introduced a comprehensive multicore software solution for device development. Wind River's multicore software solution will help companies solve complex business challenges by taking advantage of multicore processing and virtualization. In connection with this announcement, Wind River announced that it will introduce a scalable hypervisor that will enable virtualization for devices across a broad range of vertical markets, including networking, industrial and consumer devices.]]></description></item><item><title>Green Hat Nominated for SYS-CON&apos;s &quot;SOA World Magazine Readers&apos; Choice Awards&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/591368.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/591368.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/591368_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Green Hat's GH Tester is the essential tool for organizations working with SOA platforms from vendors such as IBM, BEA, Sonic, TIBCO, Software AG and Oracle as well as any JMS or SOAP implementation. The creation of automated, repeatable tests is carried out using an intuitive graphical user interface, achieving the power of a custom-written program in a fraction of the time. User-friendly screens allow the display, creation and manipulation of your message catalogue and comprehensive reports detail the test results. These not only provide information on test success or failure, but also on the performance of the application under test. GH Tester's transport agnostic approach allows users with more than one integration technology to standardize on a single automated testing tool, and, the combined SOA and BPM validation capability provides a means of testing all aspects of their SOA projects, including exception handling and manual processes.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA Power Panel: Are B2B, SOA and BPM Converging?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/588492.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/588492.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/588492_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Is the system integrators' vision of 'business without borders' becoming a reality? This panel will examine the 3-way coalescence of Business-to-Business, SOA, and Business Process Management in the direction of a more flexible enterprise.]]></description></item><item><title>The Opening of Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/588654.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/588654.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/588654_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Open Source. Open Standards. Open Collaboration. For the past 15 years, Linux has served as the benchmark of a successful global open source project. The impact has been far reaching: today it powers the Internet, a significant portion of the datacenter, is the emerging market choice for the desktop, and soon will likely be on your phone. Over the last 5 years, this open community has turned its attention to virtualization. This talk will discuss what has been achieved and what is under development, and most importantly why open source is critical when building integrated infrastructure solutions.]]></description></item><item><title>APC Named &quot;Silver Sponsor&quot; of SYS-CON&apos;s Virtualization Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/586215.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/586215.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/586215_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In February 2007, APC and MGE UPS Systems combined to form a $3.5 billion (2.4 billion) Critical Power and Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric. The Critical Power and Cooling Services division offers the industry's most comprehensive product and solution range for critical IT and process applications in industrial, enterprise, small and medium business and home environments. The company's solutions include APC's InfraStruXure data center architecture, the comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution. The company's products also include APC and MGE-brand uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), along with APC-brand precision cooling units, racks and design and management software.]]></description></item><item><title>Do Not Buy Your BlackBerry From AT&amp;T</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/593226.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/593226.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/593226_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I am one of the very first BlackBerry users - I've been one since 1997 when it was first introduced at the annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. Since then I went through more BlackBerries probably than even JetBlue founder David Neeleman. With all the love and around-the-clock use, comes basic maintenance as well, I guess. Recently, the trackball in my Pearl jammed. We called AT&T support, they rushed me a replacement unit, overnight. (After all my monthly BlackBerry charges as a world traveler/CEO run to around $1,500 each and every month.)]]></description></item><item><title>MQSoftware to Exhibit at SYS-CON&apos;s SOA World Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/587615.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/587615.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/587615_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[MQSoftware delivers business transaction assurance, business service monitoring, middleware management applications, and enterprise application integration products to help customers align IT operations and investments with their business applications. Working with BEA , BMC Software, HP, IBM, Oracle, and TIBCO Software, MQSoftware solutions provide a complete range of real-time transaction assurance and application services performance and availability management backed by comprehensive reporting and supported with powerful tools built for multiplatform infrastructures enabling precision control of customer service and cost-control.]]></description></item><item><title>XNA or Game Development for Everyone - Part 2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/589769.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/589769.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/589769_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In Part 1 we started to develop a small racing game using XNA Game Studio Express 2.0. We learned about the game loop and how it's implemented by the XNA (by using the Update and Draw methods) framework. We also created our first track on the screen and four cars started moving on the screen, but, sadly enough, they left the track and weren't seen again. What does that mean?]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Will Support UML in Visual Studio 10</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/589161.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/589161.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/589161_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[For years and years Microsoft would never have any truck with the Object Management Group's Unified Modeling Language (UML) so it came as a bit of a surprise the other day at Microsoft's TechEd Developer conference when Bill Gates - in what he described as probably his last speech as a full-time Microsoft employee - up and disclosed that Microsoft was going to support UML in Visual Studio 10.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization - The Great MID Rollout Begins</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/584737.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/584737.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/584737_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Intel hit Computex Tuesday with enough design-wins in hand to put its newfangled netbook-, nettop- and MID-bound Atom chips in short supply at least for the next six-eight weeks, it said. The manufacturing giant confessed last week to hiccups with its new more conventional laptop-bound Centrino 2 chips and chipset that will delay volume production until August.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization - South Korea Fines Intel; AMD Pops a Few Corks</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/584688.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/584688.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/584688_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Intel has been fined $25.4 million by South Korean regulators for abusing its dominant position and discounting its microprocessors, thereby freezing AMD out of the market. The charges relate specifically to $37 million in rebates awarded to Samsung and Trigem between 2002 and 2005 in exchange for not buying chips from AMD. By 2005 Intel owned over 90% of the Korean market and the authorities claim AMD couldn?t have competed even if its chips were free.]]></description></item><item><title>Brazil, India &amp; Venezuela Join South Africa in Objecting to OOXML Standardization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/584661.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/584661.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/584661_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[At the eleventh hour Brazil, India and Venezuela joined South Africa in appealing ISO's highly politicized standardization of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file format. Meanwhile, the Danish Open Source Business Association has protested the Danish Standard's 'yes' vote for standardization claiming a lack of consensus, rules violations, no final draft and little chance of interoperability. It wants ISO to reopen the issue. Denmark's is not a formal appeal and Danish Standard disagrees with the charges made. Microsoft declined to comment saying the flap is between ISO/IEC and the national bodies.]]></description></item><item><title>Why Code Snippets Are Not My Cup of Tea</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/584957.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/584957.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/584957_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Call me a purist but I like to make my code as object-oriented and well structured as possible. I like to tweak the design and to work toward the overall quality of the code. My refactoring olfactory sense is quick to react to any offending odor in the code and it's becoming more sensitive and less tolerant with time.]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;Virtualization Power Panel&quot; to Present Top Virtualization CTOs Live on SYS-CON.TV</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/582815.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/582815.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/582815_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Egenera CTO Pete Manca are among the top industry executives joining Jeremy Geelan in the famous 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV 'Virtualization Power Panel' to be recorded on the eve of SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held 23-24 June 2008 in New York City.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA World Conference &amp; Expo in NYC: Themes &amp; Topics</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/583038.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/583038.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/583038_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A round-up of the Service Oriented Architecture related themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 13th International Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown Manhattan.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM and Google Boost Cloud Computing: &quot;Universities Really Need To Get On Board&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/440462.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/440462.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/440462_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['We in academia and the government labs have not kept up with the times,' Randal E. Bryant, dean of the computer science school at Carnegie Mellon University, told the New York Times over the weekend, as IBM and Google announced a major research initiative to provide the technical training needed for the kind of high-performance computing both companies are famous for. 'Universities really need to get on board,' Bryant added.]]></description></item><item><title>Xiotech Automates VMware Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/577402.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/577402.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/577402_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Xiotech announced Virtual View, a new add-on for its ICON Manager user interface that simplifies storage monitoring, management and provisioning tasks in virtual environments. Virtual View, designed for users of Xiotech's Emprise 7000 and Magnitude 3D 4000 storage systems, enables administrators to manage storage in their VMware infrastructure environments from a single interface. Users can have a global view of the three storage layers (array, VMware ESX and virtual machine) from a single console and then automate configuration across all layers. As a result, storage management becomes faster and easier with less risk of misconfigurations.]]></description></item><item><title>Transformer in H1 Data Center in Houston Explodes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/579949.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/579949.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/579949_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['We are acutely aware that uptime is critical to your business, and you have my personal commitment that The Planet team will continue to work around the clock to restore your service,' said Douglas Erwin as The Planet, one of the larger hosting providers online, struggled to deal with the knock-on effects of three walls of the electrical equipment room on the first floor having blown several feet from their original position, causing a fire that destroyed the underground cabling powering the first floor of its H1 data center in Houston, Texas.]]></description></item><item><title>Timing the Market with Distributed Genetics</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/579373.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/579373.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/579373_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I've always been puzzled by the ability of some traders to consistently make money. A cynic would say that anyone who is able to profit in all adverse economic environments (recessions, depressions, etc.) is most likely able to do so because they are getting information that is not generally available. Although the cynic might mean 'inside' information by this statement, I believe that there is a non-cynical interpretation of this statement that is, to some degree, correct.]]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization - Windows 7 Sighted</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/579303.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/579303.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/579303_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer previewed Windows 7 at the Wall Street Journal's D6 conference in California Tuesday. The next-generation operating system is due in late 2009, Ballmer said, confirming what we reported weeks ago, which probably means December 31, 2009.]]></description></item><item><title>Norway&apos;s SEC Sics Cops on New Microsoft Subsidiary</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/579302.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/579302.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/579302_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[When Microsoft bought Fast Search & Transfer ASA and its vaunted enterprise search widgetry last month for $1.23 billion cash to compete against Google it bought itself police investigation. When Microsoft agreed to buy it in mid-January, the publicly traded Norwegian company was already in the revenue-recognition soup. It had been delisted a month before, and was supposed to restate its 2006-2007 results for a second time.]]></description></item><item><title>A Social Registry - Bridging Technology and Community for SOA</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/565704.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/565704.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/565704_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SOA is about people as much as technology. This talk will demonstrate how adding a layer of social (or 'Web 2.0') features - things like tags, comments and syndication feeds - to your SOA infrastructure can provide fertile ground to help grow a vibrant and connected community of developers, businesspeople and technologists. We'll show you how a social registry/repository can enable both grass-roots development and CIO-pleasing governance, all with standard REST interfaces. And because we can directly connect SOA components and metadata with the human community creating them, the relationships of both the software and the people can be enriched.]]></description></item><item><title>Software AG Named &quot;Gold Sponsor&quot; of SOA World Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/519760.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/519760.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/519760_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Software AG is an independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Their 4,000 global customers achieve measurable business results by modernizing and automating their IT systems and rapidly building new systems and processes to meet growing business demands. Software AG's product portfolio includes best-in-class solutions for managing data, enabling service oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By combining proven technology with industry expertise and best practices, our customers improve and differentiate their businesses - faster.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Unveils New x86 Virtualization Servers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/577163.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/577163.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/577163_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[AMD announced growing industry support for the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor among global OEMs continues with IBM's launch of three updated System x servers. Designed to address customer priorities such as energy efficiency, performance, scalability, and virtualization, the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers from IBM offer a power-efficient platform for today's datacenters.]]></description></item><item><title>VMware to Acquire B-hive Networks to Further Enhance Virtualization Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/576944.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/576944.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/576944_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[VMware announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire B-hive Networks. With this acquisition, VMware will leverage the B-hive team and technology to offer proactive performance management and service level reporting for applications running within VMware virtual machines - on both servers and desktops. In addition, B-hive's R&D facility and team will form the core of VMware's new development center in Israel. The terms of the acquisition, which is expected to be completed during the third quarter of 2008, subject to customary closing conditions, were not disclosed.]]></description></item><item><title>Voxeo Makes Multi-Tenant IVR Virtualization a Reality for OEM Partners</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/576128.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/576128.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/576128_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Voxeo announced the availability of its proven IVR and SIP hosting infrastructure as a completely re-brandable, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. Vendors can OEM the Voxeo solution to launch their own branded, standards-based IVR hosting services. Voxeo has successfully launched its OEM IVR and SIP hosting service with one of the world's largest communication solutions vendors.]]></description></item><item><title>MokaFive Brings Cross-Platform Virtualization Desktops to Market</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/572164.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/572164.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/572164_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[MokaFive announced the availability of the MokaFive Virtual Desktop Solution. Now, organizations have a cross-platform desktop virtualization offering that delivers the best of both worlds: the control of centralized management for IT administrators and the power and flexibility of rich, local execution for users.]]></description></item><item><title>Hyper9 CTO to Present at SYS-CON&apos;s 4th International Virtualization Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/576511.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/576511.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/576511_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Today, most virtualization management applications are either built on top of yesterday's physical server management technology or designed to mimic VMware VirtualCenter. But, according to Hyper9's CTO, Dave McCrory, 'Neither approach will work in the long run.' Virtualization management software, says McCrory, is better off being designed from the ground up rather than simply trying to retrofit a dynamic environment into a static management application.]]></description></item><item><title>The World&apos;s Eight Most Excellent Software Adventures, Part One</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/465206.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/465206.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/465206_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I was reminiscing about the good 'ol days tinkering with computers: Commodore 64s, GWBASIC, Turbo Pascal 5.0, DOOM and the Autoexect.bat config.sys hacking required to get it running on underprivileged 486s, Amiga 500s, broken Linux 1.0 kernel compiles, EGA video cards and more Sierra games than I can remember. Getting stuff running was hard. Understanding how stuff worked was heaps of fun. Connectivity to other likeminded communities was basically non-existent, so a great book on the topic of interest was like striking gold in Ballarat.]]></description></item><item><title>SOA Viewpoint: The Software Architect&apos;s Dilemma</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/566430.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/566430.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/566430_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I've worked for Fortune 500 companies engaged simultaneously in 50+ of IT projects as well as small companies with one or two products and I don't believe there is a need for any organization to have a full-time software architect. Once the modeling is done, it is the work of coding and testing that truly takes the full-time effort. Once underway, 100 hours a month of time is enough for any architect to respond to most needs of all ongoing projects.]]></description></item><item><title>New Version of IDEs from SharpDevelop and MonoDevelop</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/575276.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/575276.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/575276_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Time sneaks up on us. Last month's issue started year six of 'Monkey Business' in .NET Developer's Journal. Many thanks to all the readers who made this milestone possible.  Last November marked the beginning of my seventh year with the Mono project. The Mono team has released version 1.0 of the MonoDevelop IDE. It was created as a Linux fork of SharpDevelop 1.x back in 2003.]]></description></item><item><title>Book Review: Pro LINQ</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/575292.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/575292.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/575292_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This is a well-written book, full of tips and traps, and enough source code snippets to make it worth buying for that reason alone. It's value-packed with information from someone who clearly knows what he's talking about. It's one of the better books I've seen on LINQ and will be a welcome addition to my bookshelf.]]></description></item><item><title>Deploying an ASP.NET AJAX RSS Reader on Linux</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/573582.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/573582.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/573582_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Have you ever wished you could run ASP.NET applications on Linux, without having to rewrite your code or leave the Visual Studio development environment? In this article, I show you how to port Steve Clements' AJAX ASP.NET RSS Reader to native Java and deploy it to Apache Tomcat on Linux. I also show you how to add an AnimationExtender and a HoverMenu from the AJAX Control Toolkit in Visual Studio, while targeting Java.]]></description></item><item><title>Mainsoft Announces ASP.NET AJAX on Linux</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/538036.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/538036.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/538036_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Mainsoft announced that its latest release of Mainsoft products provide full support for Microsoft's ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions and AJAX Control Toolkit. Mainsoft for Java EE, version 2.2, allows Visual C# and Visual Basic developers to use ASP.NET 2.0 components from Microsoft to create Java pages with sophisticated, responsive user interfaces and efficient client-server communications by adding a few server controls to their ASP.NET pages. Ported applications deliver equivalent performance and scalability on Java as the original application delivers in .NET.]]></description></item><item><title>Book Review: ASP.NET 2.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/567447.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/567447.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/567447_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ASP.NET developers are bored with traditional books that outline concepts in a lengthy way. These books are good if you like to learn the features in a detailed manner. However, by the time the book is read, a new version will be released. Hence, many learners including myself prefer short and succinct books that not only explain the topics in a user-friendly way, but also enable the reader to learn the concepts of the current technology before a new version is released.]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;RIA&quot; vs &quot;Rich Client Platform&quot;: The Term Is Now Up for Debate</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547326.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547326.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547326_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['RIA' is slowly fading in terms of its definition. When I first started the RIA Evangelism role in Microsoft, I had this nagging feeling that the term RIA was just all over the place. Depending on which technology you are backing and which stream of alliance you uphold, the truth is the term was destined to be abused before it really took off.]]></description></item><item><title>Peer Networking Series - A Closer Look at PNRP vs. Bonjour/ZeroConf</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563224.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563224.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563224_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It seems as though whenever I bring up PNRP and its benefits, I am immediately inundated with a list of questions or comments indicating that Microsoft is re-inventing the wheel and that PNRP has already been implemented before in the form of ZeroConf and, more specifically, Apple's implementation of it called Bonjour (formerly known as Rendezvous).]]></description></item><item><title>db4o Open Source Object-Oriented Database Supports LINQ</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/564247.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/564247.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/564247_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[db4objects has announced that its db4o object database is now optimized for Microsoft's LINQ. With the new support, developers can choose an object-oriented optimized engine without changing the API or compromising performance. db4object's db4o database offers a persistence solution to store objects of any complexity natively with a single line of code.]]></description></item><item><title>AJAX World - Xceed Launches Microsoft Silverlight 2 Control</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563181.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563181.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563181_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Xceed launched Xceed Upload for Silverlight, the commercial offering in support of Microsoft's promising new Silverlight technology. The product is available now for purchase or as a fully functional 45-day trial on Xceed's website. Xceed Upload for Silverlight lets developers add upload capabilities to any Silverlight 2 Beta 1 application. All upload operations are asynchronous; as a result, the Web page hosting the Silverlight application remains perfectly responsive and usable throughout the transfer.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft-Yahoo - Yahoo Dodges the Takeover Bullet As Microsoft Calls Off Bid</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558497.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558497.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 17:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558497_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['I hereby formally withdraw Microsoft's proposal to acquire Yahoo,' writes a disgruntled Steve Ballmer in this letter to Jerry Yang. Yang's tactic of cosying up to Google seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back. As a service to SYS-CON.com readers we bring you the full text of the letter]]></description></item><item><title>EFF Faults Microsoft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558147.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558147.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 02:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558147_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Electric Frontier Foundation (EFF) has put an open letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on its site complaining that Microsoft has 'betrayed MSN music customers' and urging him to fix the problems Microsoft will cause when it turns off its Music validation servers at the end of August. It says the move will make it impossible for users to transfer their DRM-protected music files if they buy a new computer or upgrade their operating system or if their disk crashes.]]></description></item></channel></rss>