No Microsoft runtime or tool will be required to use them. Hailstorm offers a free suite of web services the company believes will draw a global internet membership numbering as many as 100 million within a year.
We're only going to do it if we can make it beautiful from the customer perspective. How about the theory that Linux will enter companies through the back door, if you will, because consumers will install it at home, and then want it at work?
An example close to my heart is the railways, the quality of which very much affects my regular journeys. But these were achieved by abandoning traditional railway engineering skills and contracting all the work to a range of private companies.
This has been achieved through a combination of adopting good practice by reducing the total number of services running by default, running services at lower privileges to system, redesigning IIS and with a bit of innovation through the...
The company is building service packs for its Visual Studio.Net 2003 development tool and the .Net Framework - the software plumbing, or "runtime," needed to run web services applications on Windows, a Microsoft executive said.
From Adobe's perspective, the acquisition of Macromedia's tools for authoring multimedia content also bolsters its standing in the business market. With its $3.4bn acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems is buying into a crucial battle to shape...