Roughly 40 percent of all IT projects surveyed in a September 2000 Gartner Group study failed to meet business requirements. The average cancelled IT project was scheduled to last 27 weeks and ...

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Many software developers do not pay enough attention to the shutdown (also referred to as undeploy) of the applications they write. In fact, the most popular shutdown mechanism is to execute Ctl+C or ...

Oracle has released a software update to fix a critical security vulnerability in its Java software that miscreants and malware have been exploiting to break into vulnerable computers. This update ...

Oracle has quickly whipped up a fix for its much-maligned Java, after the US Department of Homeland Security recommended web users disable or remove the software to secure their internet use. Java 7 ...

All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...

Oracle addressed 40 security issues in Java and enabled online certificate revocation checking by default in its scheduled critical patch update for Java on Tuesday. Thirty-four vulnerabilities ...