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More than a year after it was spun out of software giant CA, Ingres Corporation, maker of the open source database of the same name, is ramping up its local operations and reassuring customers it is here to stay.

PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) 5.2, the latest version of the popular open source scripting language, is set to be released this Thursday, Zend Technologies Co-Founder Andi Gutmans said on Tuesday.

I was recently contacted by the company that manages my stock to open up a new Web site log-on account. During new account creation, it asked me to input a secure password. So, I put in my normal password that is 21 characters long followed by 10 characters that are unique per Web site, but only uses lowercase letters. The length of the base password prevents basic password cracking and guessing, while the additional characters make the overall password (or pass phrase) unique so that no two resources ever have the same password.

Microsoft is due to unveil Dynamics AX 4.0, the latest version of its high-end ERP (enterprise resource planning) software Monday at its Tech Ed 2006 user conference in Boston.

The second beta release of Internet Explorer (IE) 7 will have support for URLs (uniform resource locators) written in different languages, widely seen as critical for making the Internet more international, according to a Microsoft developer.

Cross-platform toolkits have always been a market unto themselves. In the heyday of Unix, products such as Galaxy, XVT, and Zinc provided a solution for IT and for ISVs that could not afford to rewrite code for all flavors of OSes. When Java took over much of the cross-platform workload, these tools were relegated to the sidelines.

Workshare has released the latest version of its document compliance software that for the first time includes the company's Document Hygiene technology designed to guard against privacy breaches and the disclosure of sensitive information.

Twenty-year veteran of reporting and analytics Cognos has finally thrown in its lot with Web services and the SOA camp. It has replaced its existing suite of tools and applications with a full rebuild and a single, Web-architected application platform it hopes will see it right for the next decade.

As more organisations store more data longer, the IT industry seeks a better way.

A dangerous spoofing security hole has been found in every Windows browser on the market -- except one.

Sybase released a new version of its application development tool on Monday, called PowerBuilder 10, and outlined plans for an upgrade to its database software, Adaptive Server Enterprise, which will go into beta at the end of this month and is due for release next year.