Overall, developer use of the Visual Basic family has dropped off by 35% since last spring. As expected, developers are finally leaving VB6 and earlier versions, they're also leaving VB.NET; which is down by 26%. This means Java now holds the market penetration lead at 45%.

Excelsior LLC has announced that Excelsior JET 4.8, the latest update to the company's certified Java SE technology implementation for desktop and embedded systems, has been released. The key new feature of this version is the substantial reduction of disk footp...

As the Kelsey Group's Interactive Local Media Conference kicked off in Philadelphia, InfoSpace announced the availability of a 60-day free trial of their enhanced mobile local search product InfoSpace Find It! for mobile customers with select handsets. The new I...

Play65, the world's biggest online backgammon room, has launched a free Java backgammon version of their very popular game platform. This allows anyone to play the backgammon game right away, without any installation - and it is all for free! The Java version of P...

Thought Inc., The Dynamic O/R Mapping Company announced the new release of Version 5 Service Release 1 of CocoBase Pure Pojo with EJB 3 JPA specification integration and support, the new Java standard API for Object to Relational Mapping. CocoBase jumps ahead of t...

Alfresco Software, Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, has announced that CityTech has become a member of the Alfresco Gold partner program. CityTech is a consultancy, based in Chicago, IL USA and has been using Alfre...

Enterprise Java scalability solutions company, Terracotta, Inc., is hosting a free webinar for Apache Struts framework developers on Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. Designed for application developers, ''Clustering your ...

Two of USA's largest power utilities have selected Asentinel's patent-pending software, Asentinel 5.0, for telecom expense management (TEM) and total telecom cost management (TTCM), David C. Perdue, Asentinel CEO, announced recently. The corporations, one a lead...

Lendia, Inc., an outsource solutions provider to mortgage originators, has hired Alex Wu as Java developer. Wu will help the company's information technology department accelerate the pace of implementation of updates and enhancements to Lendia's proprietary Len...

Global IT Consultancy, ThoughtWorks has announced the release of dbdeploy, an open source tool for developers and database administrators (DBAs), dbdeploy is a simple solution to the problem of managing and deploying database refactorings to development, quality ...

Monitise Group has announced the launch of its two factor authentication service - ACCODE. The new service, which is based on the banking grade security model behind Monitise's banking service MONILINK, provides organisations with a secure two factor authenticatio...

An uncompromising advocate of Java compatibility, Dr Graham Hamilton - Sun Fellow and VP - has parted company with the new 'age of participation' Sun in the wake of its decision last week to open-source its implementation of Java.

Big Faceless Organization (BFO), provider of high quality Java software components, have announced the launch of the Japanese version of the website: http://big.faceless.org. The BFO Japanese website will display when the preferred language is set to Japanese on y...

ChemAxon, a software solutions provider for life sciences has announced the release of version 3.2 of its Java based cheminformatics suite, JChem. As the first commercially available Java based cheminformatics toolkit technology, JChem provides an OS independent...

Canoo has announced that it has added the August 2006 spelling reform changes to its online German dictionaries and grammar at Canoo.net (http://www.canoo.net). All entries affected by the reform have been updated to reflect the new spelling. With 250'000 entries ...

Ricoh Corporation, a provider of digital office equipment, has announced that Technesis Inc., a Ricoh Technology Alliance Member, has passed Ricoh's Compatibility Testing for its Print Management/Cost Recovery product. Ricoh's Compatibility Testing ensures that Te...

SeeWhy Software has announced it has partnered with JBoss to extend and tighten SeeWhy's support for the leading open source platform for creating service-oriented architectures (SOA). The SeeWhy business intelligence (BI) platform already uses the JBoss Applica...

Bull and JBoss, a division of Red Hat, have entered into a worldwide technology and business partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of interoperable open source middleware solutions for enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Executives from Sun Microsystems Middle East & North Africa have revealed that the company has recorded overall regional growth of more than 38 percent in the last financial year. The market has been growing at approximately 25% year on year in the Middle East reg...

JBoss has released Hibernate 3.2, the latest update to the company's powerful, award-winning Java object/relational mapping software. By user demand, JBoss has simplified Hibernate packages to support the most popular development frameworks. Now, programmers have ...

JBoss unveiled several pieces of core technology that will be featured in its forthcoming Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (EE) 5.0 compliant application server, JBoss Application Server 5.0. The new features, which are being previewed at JBoss user conference an...

Application performance guru Kirk Pepperdine added his two cents to the ongoing Web discussions about Sun's announcement last week that it is open sourcing its implementation of Java. He pinpoints the Classpath exception as being the key valve that 'leaves busines...

The open sourcing of Java - an admittedly flawed process - began on Monday. But as everybody has observed, at six million lines of code, it will be one of the biggest open source contributions ever, representing a shift in thinking by a company that historically h...

DDC-I, a supplier of development tools for safety-critical applications, today announced that is has joined the Safety-Critical Java Expert Group (JSR 302). The new group?s mission is to create a subset of real-time Java that is suitable for safety-critical ap...

Once the SEC accepts that corporate blogs are a valid channel for making material disclosures, will Microsoft have to make changes to its website so that users can access such information without being compelled to use IE? That's the question raised recently by a ...

Palamida, a provider of software intellectual property (IP) management and compliance products and services, has announced immediate availability of updates to the IP Amplifier, IP Authorizer and Compliance Library products. The announcement comes on the heels of ...

Envision Technology Solutions, Inc. has announced the release of RiskEnvision 4.0, the latest version of Envision?s industry-leading risk management & claims administration software solution. RiskEnvision 4.0 is a 100% web-based solution written in Java. The ser...

CITTIO Inc., the innovation provider in automated network and systems monitoring software, announced a new partnership with Data Storage Solutions Inc. (DSSI), a Provo, Utah-based value-added reseller (VAR) and provider of hardware and software solutions for med...

Gemalto will be delivering an EMV solution for Hong Kong's DBS Bank that will offer bank cardholders a more convenient and secure payment experience. Gemalto's secure Visa EMV card has an open platform operating system that enables post issuance application downlo...

Agitar Software has announced a new flagship product -- AgitarOne -- that brings unprecedented power and simplicity to Java unit testing. Unit testing is the practice in which software developers create tests for their code as they write it, helping to ensure that...

Agitar Software has announced that its newly-released product for Java unit testing -- AgitarOne -- is available free of charge to accredited educational institutions for teaching and academic research. Agitar will also create and make available course material fo...

To be launched globally this month, GITEX delegates will be the first in the Middle East to see Sun's latest addition to the Java SE family. Java SE 6 allows users to develop and deploy Java applications on their desktops servers, and on today's demanding embedded...

SYS-CON.TV invites you to join an industry all-star lineup today at 1:30PM EST - Enerjy CEO, Nigel Cheshire; renowned IT guru, Andrew Binstock; and Java Developer's Journal publisher, Jeremy Geelan - as they shine the spotlight on the increased quality and reliab...

ExtenXLS 5 is the latest version of the powerful and scalable solution for automating Excel-compatible spreadsheets with live data from any source. This latest version incorporates dozens of new features and improvements made in direct response to customer requests.

The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal software development platform, has announced three milestone releases within the Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP). Founded in 2005 as a top-level Ecl...

Sun Microsystems announced it is releasing its implementations of Java technology as free software under the GNU General Public License version two (GPLv2). Available now are the first pieces of source code for Sun's implementation of Java Platform Standard Editio...

Hyperic Inc., a multi-platform, open-source IT management provider, has announced that MuleSource, a provider of open source infrastructure and integration software, will use Hyperic?s flagship product, Hyperic HQ, as the foundation for its new monitoring and ma...

Bill Scherer, who recently completed his doctoral degree in computer science at the University of Rochester, has written code that so dramatically increases the efficiency of the popular programming platform Java that it will be incorporated into that software's n...

Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java technology and the Solaris Operating System and the world's leading contributor of open source code, today announced the availability of Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6). The Java SE 6 release is the result of ov...

Big Faceless Organization (BFO), provider of high quality Java software components, have made significant improvements to their Java Class PDF Library. The major development in version 2.7.5 is support for creating and verifying certified documents via F ormSignatu...