COMMENTARY--Even as the battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems for developer mindshare goes into full swing, the line between competing development platforms is already starting to blur. That's ...

Burlingame, Calif. — Officials from Microsoft and Sun Microsystems debated the merits of their companies’ respective Web services development platforms Wednesday, with a Microsoft executive taking a ...

Software designers have to make tough decisions when they select development environments for cellular-handset and PDA applications. Each of the major frameworks have their own strengths and ...

A couple of weeks ago, I detailed the major features we can look forward to in Java 8. What I didn’t say was that .Net has most if not all of those Java 8 features, as well as many other features ...