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+ - Bad code plagues business applications, especially-> 0

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on Thursday December 08, 2011 @06:15PM

jlechem writes "A new study examining 365 million lines of code in 745 applications identifies bad coding practices that affect security, performance and uptime, with Java Enterprise Edition applications having the greatest number of problems. Cast Software, which makes tools that automate the analysis of business applications, examined programs written in Java-EE, .NET, ABAP, C, C++, Cobol, Oracle Forms, and Visual Basic, used across a wide range of industries from energy and financial services to IT consulting, insurance, government, retail, telecom, and more."
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+ - Microsoft posts anti open office videos-> 0

Submitted by jlechem on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @06:35PM

jlechem writes "Instead of simply listing what it believes to be the advantages of Microsoft Office over the open source OpenOffice.org productivity suite, Microsoft has compiled comments from 15 customers who switched to Office after evaluating OpenOffice. The result: this video recently posted to the company's officevideos YouTube channel."
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+ - Former Microsoft exec sues everyone-> 0

Submitted by jlechem on Friday August 27, 2010 @05:12PM

jlechem writes "Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen is suing Apple and Google, plus nine other companies, for patent infringement. Allen claims the 11 companies are using technology for which he owns patents, according to court documents filed in a Seattle district court Friday. The papers were filed by Allen's company, Interval Licensing. The 11 accused companies are: AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google-owned YouTube."
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