Year: 2005

  • What’s Ahead for Java

    Darryl K. Taft

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    The Java programming language turned 10 this year, and at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco last month, Sun Microsystems Inc. threw a big bash for its innovative technology, replete with a huge cake as well as a New Orleans-style ragtime band. Meanwhile, James Gosling, the creator of Java as well as a Sun fellow… Read more

  • Microsoft Shakes Up Managed Security

    John Moore

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    The plan Microsoft announced last week, to acquire FrontBridge Technologies, certainly stirs things up for rivals and resellers in the managed e-mail security market. Companies such as MessageLabs Ltd. and Postini Inc. are among the established players that Microsoft Corp. will now challenge through FrontBridge Technologies Inc. All three companies have beefed up their channel… Read more

  • Generic Methods in Visual Studio 2005

    Paul Kimmel

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    Some things are good in their own time. Bell bottoms were deemed to be good in the 1970s, but today, after a short revival, they are considered goofy. In contrast, blue jeans have always been deemed to be good, whether you choose Wranglers or Levi’s. The same thing is true of code idioms: some idioms… Read more

  • NEC to Sell Only Through Channel

    Pedro Pereira

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    NEC Solutions America this week is putting an end to direct sales of its Itanium 2-based servers, software and storage solutions, opting instead for a channel-only strategy the vendor says is integral to its growth plan. The vendor is launching the Express Partner Program, through which VARs and integrators will source NEC products from distributors… Read more

  • Windows Vista Will Be an Important Measure

    Windows Vista Will Be an Important Measure

    Kevin Fogarty

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    The wait for Microsoft’s next major operating system continues, and the question of how eager customers are to upgrade is unsettled, but its official name has been released. As reported in Ziff Davis Internet’s Microsoft Watch, Microsoft announced Friday that it would replace the code-name Longhorn with the proper name Windows Vista. The announcement, made… Read more

  • Longhorn to Be Christened ‘Windows Vista’

    Longhorn to Be Christened ‘Windows Vista’

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Microsoft has decided on an official name for Longhorn: Windows Vista. That’s according to sources close to the company who requested anonymity. They said Microsoft unveiled the name Thursday in Atlanta at the company’s internal sales event, known as the Microsoft Global Sales Briefing, or MGB. Word of Longhorn’s new name began leaking to the… Read more