Development

"Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with him," says Robert De Niro, playing gangster Al Capone in one of my favorite movies, The Untouchables. That line popped into my head while reading Mike Manos' vigorous, occasionally-mulish rebuttal to my article last week with, admittedly, the rather provocative title, '6 reasons why Microsoft's container-based approach to data centers won't work' (and, yes, the even more goading kicker, 'Are you listening, Microsoft?')

This pilot fish is fresh out of college with a psychology degree, but he gets a job in IT anyway — and his first assignment away from the office is not what he expects.

10 openSUSE open source development projects will be included in Google Inc.'s annual summer software development program for college students.

Many Web services-based applications have performance issues. Here's one approach to boost their speed.

Now that Hewlett-Packard and Electronic Data Systems have decided to tie the knot, where does that put them -- and us?

More and more companies are depending on their development's research to come from universities.

For good or ill, video for mobile handset users is getting closer and closer for more of us.

We interrupt the regularly-scheduled Microhoo update to bring you the story of an obscure software vendor that seems to be proving that open-source and Windows are not like oil and water after all.

We don't need al-Qaeda to blow us up. We are perfectly capable of lighting the fuse ourselves, courtesy of our inability to share information vertically and bilaterally.

A SaaS supplier wants corporate IT to deploy their apps as a service to company users.

Pilot fish gets a new job where one of her first jobs is to design a database-oriented application. But when it comes to implementing it, there are problems.

Another PCI compliance deadline looms. Is your Web app ready for it?

Today, CIO means being more than a competent manager of IT. It should mean Lord of Process, and we should grasp that title and run with it.

Here's the text of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's letter to Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang, sent to me by Microsoft's PR about 5 pm Pacific Time on Saturday. Microsoft raised its original $31/share bid to $33/share, but Yahoo insisted on $37/share, ...

Sun Microsystems could do much more for cloud computing.