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Microsoft Goes After Adobe
Formerly noncommittal Microsoft has come out swinging in relation to Adobe Systems with a video that compares Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 to Adobe’s Dreamweaver 8. However, it’s something of an apples-to-pears or an oranges-to-lemons comparison, in that Visual Studio is an all-purpose integrated development environment and Dreamweaver, although it has IDE capabilities, is primarily known…
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Technical Hiccup Delays Microsoft Patches
Microsoft was unable to offer immediate access to its monthly collection of security patches as a result of a procedural issue in distributing the content to users Oct. 10. While the company appears to have remedied the situation, at the time that the security fixes were first released the software giant was forced to inform…
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Gartner: Tough Customers Will Win Storage Battle
Orlando Fla.—Customers need to pit one vendor against another to get the best deals on servers and storage, Gartner analysts told an audience at the annual Gartner Inc. Symposium and IT Expo here on Oct. 11. “Empower yourself to negotiate. Obtain line-item pricing. Because that’s how you’ll do upgrades,” Gartner analyst Paul McGuckin said. He…
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Salesforce.com’s Apex Platform Offers On-Demand Development
SAN FRANCISCO—At its annual Dreamforce conference here, Salesforce.com unveiled a new on-demand programming language and platform called Apex. While eWEEK had previously pieced together information about Apex from conversations with customers and analysts, at the time of story’s publication at midnight on Oct. 8 there were still some holes to fill regarding the specifics of…
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Boeing Makes Item-Level RFID Fly
As retailers and consumer goods manufacturers struggle with achieving the supply-chain nirvana of complete item-level tagging, $60 billion aerospace giant Boeing has gotten item-level RFID to soar, with 2,000 high-memory passive tags in every plane of an upcoming line. Boeing’s item-level RFID efforts are intriguing because of their scope, but also because of the extreme…
