The instant messaging war between AOL and Microsoft took a bizarre twist last week when Microsoft admitted that one of their programmers posed as an independent consultant in order to discredit AOL's instant messaging technology.
According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate for computer-related occupations - which includes computer programmers and computer system analysts and scientists - dropped to 4.5 per cent in the second quarter of this year from 5.4 per...
And it points out that open-source programmers don't like it when proprietary software companies employ open-source concepts just for marketing purposes. And Sun says it won't "hijack" open-source programmers, as it accuses Red Hat of doing.
The report added to mixed signals about the employment scene for US programmers and other tech professionals. Hudson's employment index for IT workers fell 12.4 points from 109.9 in July to 97.5. The company's overall employment index slid 5.5...
But this doesn't mean there will be no need for techies, as Ray points out: "If we are going to asset-based implementation somebody will have to build those assets so we will need programmers. Until recently, growth for most Indian services...
He's even trying to rebuild Sun's lacklustre storage business by engaging with programmers interested in storage software. As Schwartz points out, Sun's stock has risen 28 percent in the year since he took over as chief executive, although he...
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