Sun Microsystems and AOL Time Warner are quietly working on advanced instant messaging software for corporate customers, a market segment dominated by Microsoft and IBM.
The growing popularity of interactive Web sites has set off a race among software companies, each pitching their own development toolkit.
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Borrowing a playbook from Sun's Java, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once.
Google executives have a lot of work ahead of them as they court application developers skeptical of the search king's new open software platform for mobile devices.
The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for building Web-based applications, Internet browser pioneer Marc Andreessen predicted Wednesday in the US in a speech in California at the Zend/PHP Conference.
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Labouring in the background, IBM sets the standard for tomorrow's enterprise portals. Should you take a close look?
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