Introducing IIS Express – Scott Guthrie announced the launch of IIS Express, combining the ease of use of the ASP.NET Web Server with the full power of IIS, ultimately making it easier to build and run ASP.NET sites and applications. It works with Visual Web Developer 2010 Express and runs on Windows XP and higher operating systems.
NetBeans 6.9 Release Emphasizes JavaFX – NetBeans positioned as the primary environment for JavaFX with release supporting JavaFX 1.3, Java Card Connected 3, the Spring 3.0 framework, the PHP Zend Framework and Ruby on Rails 3.0.
Messenger for iPhone Hits a Million in Five Days, paving the way for beta testing of Windows Live Messenger Connect to allow developers to build apps that work with Messenger.
Apache Unleashes New Tomcat Open Source Web Server – the Tomcat 7 release includes release include improved memory leak detection and prevention and support for aliasing directories into an application’s URL space
New BIRT 2.6 Features in Helios – the new release for the reporting framework includes the addition of a Polar/Radar style charts, palette hashing, sorting improvements, multiple resource files and class path enhancements.
