Every industry has head to head comparisons between popular products and they make great headlines but is the question really being explored? I say no. In fact, I think these comparisons are meant to throw meat to one side or the other and to stir the pot of controversy for one p...

KonaKart (e-commerce) and dotCMS (web content management) have announced plans to release java based CMS-driven e-commerce plug-ins and tool sets they are developing together. This Java-based, Enterprise-quality solution combines best-of-breed e-commerce and web content manageme...

Oracle, sensibly enough from Oracle’s point-of-view, has turned off the tap of development resources on Sun’s Project Wonderland, the 100% Java open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. However, a core group of diehard Wonderlanders means to keep the proje...

You know the top one or two causes of bottlenecks for your applications, but do you know the next six or seven issues that have the potential to cause problems? Mastering application performance requires the right kind of IT strategy, combined with the right tools, that can shed ...

Did you know that PHP runs on Windows?? Run Drupal, WordPress, SugarCRM, or other PHP-based apps on Windows today with the free Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Microsoft WebsiteSpark is a specially designed program for PHP Web developers and designers to help you explore runnin...

IBM says it carved a couple of hundred notches on its gun in the fourth quarter after persuading both Sun and HP users to defect. It says all told it’s gotten 2,200 companies to move off of HP and Sun server and storage gear since beginning its Migration Factory program four year...