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New technology promises to smooth the way for BPI, EAI, and Web-based application development, but the work isn't done yet When THE 2002 InfoWorld Web Services Applications Survey asked readers to ...

In this month's column, let's briefly review the many changes we've seen in applications over the past decade. By 2000, the client-server applications of the 1990s were giving way to three-tier, ...

Rally Software Development and Gupta, after making separate announcements, are looking to improve processes for team-based application development. Rally on Monday is upgrading its hosted subscription ...

One session at last week's WWDC featured featured a JavaScript application framework called SproutCore, which has generated quite a bit of buzz since then. The framework was used by Apple to develop ...

Technology. Isn't it all modern by definition? “Modern” applications, however, are those applications that have been designed for the new millennium, the new way of doing things, the Cloud, web-based ...