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 ...

When Forrester Research Inc. surveyed platform software decision makers in large North American and European enterprises recently, the IT industry analyst firm found that 59 percent of those surveyed ...

A new tool from Beelucid Software LLC is aimed at dev shops working with both Visual Basic.NET 2003 and Java. VBeeJava is a source language translator that developers can use to port VB.NET syntax and ...

A new version of Mainsoft’s Visual MainWin for J2EE, Portal Edition provides end users with the ability to intermingle ASP.NET and Java apps within Web portals. The software, launched a decade ago, ...

For most ISVs, the name of the game is market reach. In practice, however, the task is anything but simple. And if you ask any small to midsize ISV what stands most in his way, he will no doubt cite ...

Fans of Apple’s Swift language can now use their newly developed skills to write software for systems supporting both .NET and Java, including Android. The Silver compiler, currently in beta, compiles ...